There are no words.....but this part at the end was absolutely ridiculous because there was no merit to it:

" After he was released from the hospital and determined not to be a suicide risk, Corrigan says, police arrested him and put him in jail, where he remained for almost 2 weeks.

When Corrigan returned to his apartment 16 days after being seized, he found that John Does I-XV had left the front door unlocked and unsecured, had left the electric stove on, had cut open every zipped bag, had dumped every box and drawer, had broken locked boxes from under the bed and the closet, and emptied shelves into piles in each room. All his tropical fish in his 150 gallon aquarium were dead."

What were the charges? Owning weapons and keeping them under lock and key after not sleeping for a few nights?

Why was he arrested? Ridiculous.

As someone who used to volunteer for a mental health hotline, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

If the caller mentioned that they felt like harming themselves or others and had the means to do it we had to contact the authorities, although to my knowledge they never showed up SWAT-style like those mentioned in the article.

Most of the time callers just needed a person to talk to...in many cases I could almost sense their desperation and loneliness through the phone. Unfortunately between 1/4 and 1/3 of the calls were from perverts who wanted to know what you were wearing, wanted you to say something specific or would just breathe heavily into the phone. After ten seconds we'd hang up.

Farking pigs. Farking hate the cops.

TheDumbBlonde: That's like an opening sequence of a bad Michael Douglas film.

Harvey Keitel.

BunkoSquad: miss diminutive: Unfortunately between 1/4 and 1/3 of the calls were from perverts who wanted to know what you were wearing, wanted you to say something specific or would just breathe heavily into the phone. After ten seconds we'd hang up.

What do you do with suicidal perverts?

/asking for a friend

I laughed.

"constitutional bullshiat"

where are the tough guys who go on and on about how they took an oath to protect the Constitution from threats both foreign and domestic? I hear this shiat spouted off when someone wants to give motherfarkers affordable health care, yet not a peep when there is an actual systematic internal threat.

BunkoSquad: miss diminutive: Unfortunately between 1/4 and 1/3 of the calls were from perverts who wanted to know what you were wearing, wanted you to say something specific or would just breathe heavily into the phone. After ten seconds we'd hang up.

What do you do with suicidal perverts?

/asking for a friend

Charge $9.95 a minute?

timujin: miss diminutive: If the caller mentioned that they felt like harming themselves or others and had the means to do it we had to contact the authorities

which doesn't seem to be the case here.
He said nothing about being suicidal or using a firearm or threatening anyone.

Yeah, I noticed that. I'm not all that surprised given how aggressive US police practices have become. Here in Canada those kinds of situations are rare.

ArkAngel: pisceandreamer: FTFA: 'I don't have time to play this constitutional bullshiat!'

If that is actually what was said, it speaks volumes about what is wrong with the police force right now.

It could also quite possibly strip the officer of his qualified immunity. If he really said that, then he entered the home knowingly in violation of Corrigan's established constitutional rights. Corrigan can then sue the officer personally, instead of just suing the department.

In theory. Now prove that he said it. Hence, why the police hate recording devices.

Madbassist1: EnviroDude: ShawnDoc: The article leaves out what he was arrested for. That might be important, or at least shed some light on the behavior of the police.

He lives in DC. They probably arrested him because he admitted to owning guns and living there.

$50.00 says it was for 'Inducing Panic'

'Inducing Panic', the new 'Disorderly Conduct', except we can kill you for it.

This is the first I've heard of this but it does seem that they induced panic in him.

I'm just surprised his dog may still be alive. Quite possibly gone, yes, but maybe still alive.

ultraholland: where are the tough guys who go on and on about how they took an oath to protect the Constitution from threats both foreign and domestic?

We don't fly
We avoid a lot of jail time that way.

I wonder if he still thinks he defended our "freedom" when he was in the army.

Wow.........

Great police system you've got going on over there.

Yeah, I've gotten screwed by calling the suicide hotline myself (and not in the good way). Cops showing up even after you promise not to hurt yourself, getting handcuffed and dragged off to the emergency room where they treat you like you waltzed in of your own free will for the sole purpose of wasting everybody's time, yeah, good times.

Even though I still struggle with depression and occasional suicidal thoughts, the system has taught me well: Never, ever call the hotline.

Mugato: farking cops pigs.

Suicide Hotline now will send firearms experts over to help you shoot yourself 16 times in the back and plant the throw-away gun on your body.

ArkAngel: It could also quite possibly strip the officer of his qualified immunity. If he really said that, then he entered the home knowingly in violation of Corrigan's established constitutional rights. Corrigan can then sue the officer personally, instead of just suing the department.

Good luck proving it. It's his word against theirs, and you know theirs has been agreed upon, even if it's true.

Well if the guy filed a lawsuit, everything in it must be true.

Stay classy, Bob. (new window)