OT Could have Been A Bad Fathers Day OT

[LAKOTA169]

Around 4Am last night a guy stops my son and pointed to a guy walking across a parking lot. The guy walks to a car and puts something in the back seat. The man that stopped my son said the other guy just robbed him with a gun. The guy sees my son and starts to run out of the lot and to the corner and turns the corner. Son goes after him in his car. Guy gets to the next corner and heads back toward the parking lot. As son turns corner, he's getting into the same car as before. Son blocks the car in and orders the 2 people inside to put their hands up. They don't do it. He repeated it again and still nothing. Finally a backup arrives and they both order them to put their hand up. The guy in the back seat is just sitting there with his hands down between his legs. Finally, with guns being pointed at them, they put their hands up. Once in custody, they found the stolen money in the car, along with a loaded S&W .40 handgun and a sawed off shot gun. BTW, the 2 robbers were father and son. Must have been "Take Your Son To Work " day. At least my son got to go home and enjoy Fathers Day with his 2 kids. One of the men has been charged 4 times in the past for murder, but never convicted.

Edited June 20, 2011 by LAKOTA169

[JerseyHarold]

Scary story. Glad your son is okay.

Stories like this make a good case for 2-man squad cars.

[greg g]

Apples don't fall far from the tree nomatter what side of the fence they are on....

Glad the backup arrived before the yaaahooos got more stoopid.

[Desotodav]

Glad to hear that the situation worked out alright for your son LAKOTA169. We are fortunate here in Oz that possession of guns is somewhat limited. Although, It would appear that it is not difficult for the wrong type of people to obtain weapons whenever they want to. I perform the majority of my shifts alone on a motorcycle, and have done it that way for at least the last 6 years. Backup is generally not far away for us at any given time, providing that one can get a message to our comms room via our outdated analogue radio channels.

I sadly attended the funeral of a work colleague who was recently killed in the line of duty with a firearm at a botched hold-up. These incidents are unfortunately occurring far too often. Whilst I still enjoy my occupation, I pity the parents and loved ones of any serving Officer these days for the wondering if their child or loved one will return home at the end of each shift. My parents have 2 children to worry about. Still, I wouldn't give it up for the world. I like to think that maybe one little thing that I do during my shift will make a difference!

We are a close knit family that sticks together in times of need. I am proud at the level of support that my fellow Officer's display when it is required. The 2 photos attached are from the 2 police funerals that I have attended in the last 6 months. Support from the public has been overwhelming of late. It makes one wonder why we need to go through the arbitration court just to have out state premier bring our pay scale up to the level of our neighbouring states.

Kind thoughts and warm wishes to your family. Please pass on my regards to your son, and tell him to keep up the good work!

Desotodav

[LAKOTA169]

Thanks, Desotodav. My son is a member of his departments honor guard and he has attended far too many funerals of LEO'S in this state (he's also an evidence tech for crime scenes). I was a reserve deputy (Sgt) for 17 years. we were the only car covering 36 sq. miles. If the dep in the next township was off work, we covered his area. so some nights we covered 72 sq miles. If we had a problem, our backup was 10 minutes away.

Be safe

Son on the left

Me in my clean cut days.