With all the shootings happening, especially when it comes to schools, society seems to be becoming paranoid and jittery. What happens next may be a variety of false alarms that will test the wills of the first responders as they become the bad guys.
A mother gets scared because she sees a "suspicious" character in her children's school playground. This supermom saw a man wringing his hands and pacing anxiously. She didn't see a weapon, but apparently her paranoid instincts are always right. She told the staff about this person, and they immediately brought the children in from the playground, called 911 and put the school on lockdown.
Her child added to her paranoid episode by asking her if the bad man is going to jail? Because she didn't know what to say, she decided to call 911, too!
Since it took law enforcement too long to get there, because they probably realized the children were safe because of the lockdown, she went ballistic. Even though it was a false alarm, she wanted to know what took them so long to respond when children's lives were in danger!
Yes pulling a body out of the lake wasn't as important as a perceived threat to children that wasn't. We need more mothers like this that are willing to waste police resources on irrational fears. This could also serve as an anti-gun ad, since the outcome would have been worse if she had a gun!
Saturday, March 16, 2013
What Took You So Long
Labels:
911,
false alarm,
lockdown,
paranoia,
police,
response time,
suspicious
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