XPost: alt.law-enforcement, alt.thebird.copwatch, nyc.general   
   XPost: alt.true-crime   
   From: cranchingwire@piddlydiddlydoo.earthlink.net   
      
   "jaybird"  wrote in   
   news:yAlGb.1503$sP4.872@fe1.texas.rr.com:   
      
   > The candy bar, sock, cell phone, etc... would not be considered a   
   > threat if that object can be determined.   
      
   You know what's kind of funny, though? Most real people don't have nearly   
   as many violent encounters as cops, compared one on one. That's obvious.   
   However, taken as a group, normal citizens have shitloads of such   
   encounters. Most of the time, these happen out of the blue, to people who   
   have absolutely no training, it isn't their job to spot-assess threat   
   levels or keep the peace or anything like that.   
      
   ...and yet, normal people almost *never* kill somebody in their violent   
   encounters because they mistake, in the heat of the moment, a candy bar   
   or a sock or a cell phone for a lethal weapon. Cops, however, seem to do   
   it fairly regularly.   
      
   Go figure.   
      
   --   
   --Robert   
      
   "'There are men in this world,' he said, "who go about demanding to be   
   killed. You must have noticed them...these are people who wander through   
   the world shouting 'Kill me. Kill me.' And there is always somebody   
   ready to oblige them.'"   
      
   --Mario Puzo, The Godfather   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)