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You just never know

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 10:48 AM

  Seeing as how it was sunny and rather warm for the first week in January (55 degrees) I decided to play 18 on our local City course on the par 3 course. After playing 5 holes I teed up on # 6 which runs parallel to a country road. Right after I teed off several Sherriff's deputies and a Kentucky State trooper came flying down that little road with sirens and lights flashing. I finished my first 9 and a few minutes later one of the deputies came to the course and ordered the par 3 course to be cleared. The few of us who were playing the par 3 course went to our cars to wait until we were allowed to continue. some 15 or 20 minutes later we heard a single shot fired and a about 5 or 10 minutes later an ambulance came. After about an hour we were allowed to continue. While i was playing # 6 the second time I saw the ambulance returning with no lights or sirens so I thought no one had been hurt. However this morning I saw the headlines in our local newspaper. "OPD officer  kills burglary suspect. Like the subject says. You just never know. 

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 12:25 PM

  A burglary suspect seeks refuge in a sparsely inhabited par 3 course?... I guess he figured he would blend right in there ...oi vey

• 2,840 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 1:12 PM

  Sounds kinda like Glen Eagle golf course in SF.....

   

  - WGTdbloshoe

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 1:23 PM

  Sounds like none of you cares when a human is shot to death. :(

  He may rest in peace.

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 1:30 PM

  alosso:

  Sounds like none of you cares when a human is shot to death. :(

  He may rest in peace.

  I certainly care when someone gets shot...I care that it's the right target. All too often, it's the good guys that get shot.

  Them, I lose sleep over.

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 2:05 PM

  So, a "burglary suspect" is just a target, guilty by bullet?

  Pray that you will never be on the wrong end!

• craigswan 31,785 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 2:21 PM

  The usa amd it's guns .

  I'm not opening up that can of worms .

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 2:47 PM

  alosso:

  So, a "burglary suspect" is just a target, guilty by bullet?

  Pray that you will never be on the wrong end!

  No, Guilty by action...Judged by bullet.

  With the way the world is going, I pray that none of the innocents end up on the business end of a gun...unfortunately, the nightly news routinely show this to be the sad case. 

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 2:57 PM

  ct690911:

  Guilty by action...Judged by bullet.

  Please allow me to reword this properly:

  ct690911:

  Let all suspects be killed - the world will be a better place!

   

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Fri, Jan 8 2016 3:21 PM

  alosso:

  ct690911:

  Guilty by action...Judged by bullet.

  Please allow me to reword this properly:

  ct690911:

  Let all suspects be killed - the world will be a better place!

   

  This is a circular argument...and potentially endless...we have vastly different life experiences which have shaped our views, so let's just agree to disagree and play golf...:)

  ct