[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj91eeoFOBk"]YouTube - Girl Arrested for Swearing on 9-11 call[/ame]
This makes me sick...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj91eeoFOBk"]YouTube - Girl Arrested for Swearing on 9-11 call[/ame]
This makes me sick...
If some foul-mouthed kid was dropping f bombs to me on the phone, she would of got nothing outta me but a dial tone.
Although the cop handled the situation poorly, this girl conveyed a complete lack of respect for authority. At 17, I don't necessarily place all the blame on her for this behavior. I'd place a lot of the blame on the people who raised her - possibly her Dad - the person she was ironically trying to get help for.
SHUT IT
I'll PM them to you, don't want to get an infraction.
On this point you and I will have to agree to disagree. Even the most well brought up kids at age seventeen tend to have a mind of their own, and are subject to influences stemming from outside the home from which they may obtain a variety of inappropriate vocabulary. I don't think it is always necessarily the parents fault. The girls dad may have raised her to the very best of his ability. JMHO
No it doesn't. Call the White House and tell them that you would like to make a thread against the president. Try and talk a person into murdering someone with you. Try slandering a lawyer. The real fact is you can't say whatever you want. (AGAIN I am not condoning what this officer did) You can't just go around popping off at the mouth because it is your "right to do so" or you will get negative reactions from everywhere. I will tell you right now that when I walk up on an emergency scene, I am calm. I don't swear. I speak clearly,calmly and compassionately to everyone that I have to deal with (patients, police, fire dept, patients family and friends, bystanders etc) If you start cursing me or my partner out, then you are going to get a much different reaction out of me. That kind of thing leads to agressive behaviour and that makes me feel threatened and if you make me feel threatened will be treated differently (and it is not pleasant). My guess is you are probably the same type of guy who would get all indignant and yap about all your "rights as an American citizen" and talk to everyone about what an awful paramedic I was for not holding your hand in an emergency, or not being nice to you while I save someone when all you are really doing is disupting myself and other emergency services from doing our jobs. While freedom of speech is everyones right, there comes a time when people like you need to keep their mouths shut.
And the cop won't lose his job. He has a union. You can't fire someone for one instance. He delayed help, not denied it. He sent someone just not fast enough so he will be reprimanded but not fired.
The only reason a beer sweats around Canada is because he's decided it will be the next beer he drinks.
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