> -----Original Message----- > From: Dinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 3:48 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: climate change > > There were 4 of them practicing, on the grass outside the high school.
Four seems like an "iffy" number... enough to give the benefit of the doubt I think. I mean if I saw four otherwise nondescript people with rifles walking towards a school I'd probably call somebody as well. It's not like they're drilling every minute - you have to walk to and from the area, there're breaks, etc The caller may have just caught them at a less-than-military moment and, better-safe-than-sorry, made a call. In this case a group of 50 kids may not have seemed threatening at all - but a group of four (especially when dressed normally) is small enough to evoke shades of Columbine. I really can't see fault with the caller. Now, the cops are a different story: they should have simply verified that the group was legitimately associated with the school and informed the caller of that fact. Pure and simple. If somebody reported a wild gang with clubs walking down the street and turned out to be a little league that just won the championship that's what you'd do. They probably should have also confirm that the weapons weren't real (they almost never are for younger ROTC). If they were actually real weapons (especially if there was ammo present) I could them having a problem (a big problem). Lastly the school also seems at fault. To suspend practice when the simple alternative of just practicing inside out of sight (a four-man squad could easily practice in any but the smallest rooms) just seems ludicrous. (Practicing inside seems a very reasonable compromise.) So, in my opinion with only what you've said to go on, caller: good; cops: probably bad; school: definitely bad. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237161 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
