What should have been done?

[TevashSzat]

Glad to see law enforcement has a public service attitude on this one.

This guy gets called to a cat in a tree and he shoots the cat to get it out.

Law enforcement has a duty to protect property. If this were his mother's house or his own, would he have done the same thing? As public servants we must always follow the "my family" rule. Would I treat my family the same way? What if one of my family were in that burning building? What if one of my family was pulled over for speeding?

We don't live in a perfect world and not all choices have a clear good and bad. Sometimes, the best choice will result in doing implicit harm to others. The thing is you can't follow the "my family" rule as public servants and still expect to make tought decisions of any kind.

Lets say it was WWII, and you are a congressman. Would you want the US to enter the war after Pearl Harbor if hypothetically you had a family in Germany that had no connections with the Nazi Regime, but may be all killed due to civilian casualties from bombings??? Using the welfare of one person or small group to justify the punishment of everyone else can never work.

[Yoyoma1910]

We don't live in a perfect world and not all choices have a clear good and bad. Sometimes, the best choice will result in doing implicit harm to others. The thing is you can't follow the "my family" rule as public servants and still expect to make tought decisions of any kind.

Lets say it was WWII, and you are a congressman. Would you want the US to enter the war after Pearl Harbor if hypothetically you had a family in Germany that had no connections with the Nazi Regime, but may be all killed due to civilian casualties from bombings??? Using the welfare of one person or small group to justify the punishment of everyone else can never work.

That's a bit of an extreme example, isn't it.



The woman tried to illegally transport an oversized load on a federal highway.




It failed.

[Reverend Joe]

We don't live in a perfect world and not all choices have a clear good and bad. Sometimes, the best choice will result in doing implicit harm to others. The thing is you can't follow the "my family" rule as public servants and still expect to make tought decisions of any kind.

Lets say it was WWII, and you are a congressman. Would you want the US to enter the war after Pearl Harbor if hypothetically you had a family in Germany that had no connections with the Nazi Regime, but may be all killed due to civilian casualties from bombings??? Using the welfare of one person or small group to justify the punishment of everyone else can never work.

DA, for your information, is a former police officer. I think he knows what he is talking about.

And anyhow, I'm fairly sure this woman did not declare war on the United States by getting her trailer stuck on a highway. Sure, she was stupid, but that's no reason to punish someone, unless you want to start beating the out of retarded kids to teach them a lesson. The guy could have still moved her trailer out of the way of traffic without destroying it.

I think the problem here is the dude who ran for reelection on the slogan "More Dick." Anybody who runs with a slogan like that is a world-class dick, in my opinion.

[Tribesman]

The guy could have still moved her trailer out of the way of traffic without destroying it.

Errrrr .....how do you move a stuck trailer without wheels in the dark in bad weather when the trailer is structurally unsound and there is very limited access due to the size of the level ground next to it and the amount of traffic already blocked by these idiots ?
Joe you are talking about a major project which would not only be very expensive and very long , it would close the road entirely and still probably not manage without causing lots of damage to the trailer which by that stage was probably a write off already .
Sometimes people have to pay the price for their own stupidity , this is a case where they did .

[Vladimir]

Is this real? What a story!