[blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?

Wed Dec 3 17:43:28 UTC 2008

Ok, reporting is one thing, but actually handcuffing her in front of her 
babies is entirely another thing. She was definatly in the wrong place at 
the wrong time. Poor Darlene.  I love her.  V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M." <Rebecca.Pickrell at ngc.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?

> Would be interesting to know if police officers have procedures that
> they *have* to follow if say they witness a prong or two, i.e. an
> argument about money, an argument about money with kids present,
> whatever.
> It's kind of like NORAD, where they *have* to report any object that
> flies into U.S. airspace if that object hasn't filed a flight plan.
> And, that my friends is why Santa gets reported every year.
> You can see the reports and watch NORAD tracking Santa at the NORAD
> site.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Veronica Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:24 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?
>
> Yup, no law breaking here.  We tease her, if she didn't have bad luck,
> she'd have no luck at all.  It was very scary for her and her children
> watching mom being taken away in a police car.  I call it harassment. I
> wrote a letter to the city and complained about those kind of officers.
> Instead of going after the crooks, they harrass young families minding
> their own business. V
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 11:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?
>
>
>> Good grief, that's awful!  It doesn't sound as if your friend broke
>> the law or anything, just stepping out onto her porch and yelling.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself. To take
>> advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. Take care
>> of what you are doing. Take care.--George Bernard Shaw in "Candide"
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?
>>
>>
>>> And it doesn't only happen to blind parents.  A few years ago my
> friend
>>> and her husband were having a discussion about someone they knew and
> my
>>> friend was really mad, yelling, but not at anyone inparticular and
> went
>>> out her front door slaming it behind her.  She wasn't hitting anyone
> or
>>> bothering anyone, just venting her frustrations and there across the
>>> street from her house was 2 policemen.  They heard her yell and they
> saw
>>> her slam her front door.  they came right over and asked her what was
>>> going on.  She told them she was upset and was venting her
> frustrations.
>>> Well right about then her kids came out of the house crying because
> mom
>>> was yelling.  then out came dad, almost shouting at her to come back
>>> inside.  Then without asking any more questions, the police officer
> hand
>>> cuffed my friend and put her in the police car.  She was stunned and
> so
>>> was her family.  She said she started to cry and her husband tried to
>
>>> tell
>>> the officer that nothing was going on except her venting about
> someone
>>> who
>>> didn't pay her for babysitting.  they took her to the police station
> and
>>> then made her take anger management classes for 3 weeks.  She says
> never
>>> again will she yell to let out her frustrations. Aaah! V
>>
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