Sickening
CHP officers are getting picked off at the rate of one a month lately. This most recent one makes it even more often. What the hell is going on out there?
"HESPERIA, Calif. -- The California Highway Patrol is mourning another officer killed in the line of duty.
Motorcycle Officer John Gregory, 36, was killed Saturday night along Interstate 15 in Hesperia in San Bernardino County. Gregory had stopped a car when the driver of (sic) Honda crashed into the officer and the car he had stopped.
Authorities said the driver of the Honda had been drinking and may have had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit.
"The officer did what he was supposed to do, to take a drunk driver off the road, when he was hit by another drunk driver," CHP Commissioner Mike Brown said.
Bailey (sic) was an Army reservist who had recently returned from a 15-month tour in Iraq. He was the sixth CHP officer killed in the line of duty in the last five months and is survived by his wife and four children.
The driver of the Honda, identified as 20-year-old Domingo Esqueda, was booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and felony DUI."
Fucking idiots. This guy survived 15 months in a war zone and gets hit by a drunk driver right after he gets home. Pay attention, people -- there are a lot of drunk and violent people out on the streets who are going to make all our lives a lot more difficult if this keeps up. We cannot afford to be losing law enforcement people. I don't know what's changed in the past few years, but people don't seem to think anything of getting fucked up and taking off in their cars or, even worse, putting a gun in a police officer's face and exterminating him/her for having the unmitigated gall to pull them over. People should be alarmed. I know I am.
As an aside, the schmuck who wrote this article appears to have been writing while intoxicated. Get the name right, mofo! How do you go from Gregory to Bailey?!
"HESPERIA, Calif. -- The California Highway Patrol is mourning another officer killed in the line of duty.
Motorcycle Officer John Gregory, 36, was killed Saturday night along Interstate 15 in Hesperia in San Bernardino County. Gregory had stopped a car when the driver of (sic) Honda crashed into the officer and the car he had stopped.
Authorities said the driver of the Honda had been drinking and may have had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit.
"The officer did what he was supposed to do, to take a drunk driver off the road, when he was hit by another drunk driver," CHP Commissioner Mike Brown said.
Bailey (sic) was an Army reservist who had recently returned from a 15-month tour in Iraq. He was the sixth CHP officer killed in the line of duty in the last five months and is survived by his wife and four children.
The driver of the Honda, identified as 20-year-old Domingo Esqueda, was booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and felony DUI."
Fucking idiots. This guy survived 15 months in a war zone and gets hit by a drunk driver right after he gets home. Pay attention, people -- there are a lot of drunk and violent people out on the streets who are going to make all our lives a lot more difficult if this keeps up. We cannot afford to be losing law enforcement people. I don't know what's changed in the past few years, but people don't seem to think anything of getting fucked up and taking off in their cars or, even worse, putting a gun in a police officer's face and exterminating him/her for having the unmitigated gall to pull them over. People should be alarmed. I know I am.
As an aside, the schmuck who wrote this article appears to have been writing while intoxicated. Get the name right, mofo! How do you go from Gregory to Bailey?!
posted by PlatinumGirl at 10:23 AM
3 Comments:
Very well said!
Unbelieveable. Everyone is so worried about banning cigarettes everywhere, they need to ban alochol-not really, but with cigs you are only killing yourself, not drunk driving and killing others.
That's too bad about the officer, and the reporter/editor needs a new job.
Peachy: I don't know what the solution is for alcohol -- maybe mandatory breathalyzers on all cars -- but you don't want to get me started on smokers! At least a glass of wine can be heart healthy. Cigarettes do nothing but cloud my air! And how many house/apartment/forest fires have been started because someone flicked a cigarette out their car window or fell asleep while smoking? Gah!
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