Divemedic

Police and Crime

I am sure by now you have all seen the video of the guy in NYC who kidnapped a woman by throwing a belt over her head before raping her:

When the cops caught him, they had to keep the crowds from lynching him on the spot:

I have been saying for awhile, the true purpose of the police isn’t to collect fines. It isn’t to solve crimes and punish criminals. The true purpose of the police is to ensure that accused criminals get a fair trial. When people think that the legal and justice system have failed, they will take care of the criminals themselves.

By Divemedic, ago

Dumb Statements Overheard in the ED This Week

The guy that came in with a gunshot wound to his left hand: “I pulled out the clip and checked the chamber it looked empty. When I pulled the trigger, it went off. I guess there was a second round in the chamber.”

Triage nurse: “That’s not how that works.”

A woman has her two kids with her. One called the other “gay.” The mother, indignant, told the daughters: “Don’t talk like that, it’s offensive. Your uncle is gay, and when you say things like that, you sound like Donald Trump.”

Nurse to the cop who was involved in a pretty bad crash in his patrol car: “Were you wearing a seatbelt?”

Cop: “No. I don’t care that you know, they are going to find the ‘seatbelt dinger preventer’ that is in the seatbelt latch, anyway”

I guess some people ARE above the law. I wonder how many seatbelt tickets he has written.

By Divemedic, ago

Incompetence Should Hurt

Tulsa police raid wrong house. Let’s remove qualified immunity and require police to carry malpractice insurance, like I must do. A million in malpractice insurance costs me less than $200 a year.

Also, look at this stupid stack. This is what a group of people who are not expecting, or have no experience with, taking actual, hostile fire. They way that they are bunched up, all of them could be taken out with a couple of guys armed with battle rifles. That body armor won’t stand up to sustained .308 fire.

By Divemedic, ago

Oh, No!

I received some tragic news this morning by email. It appears that the bastards at my HR department began firing people here at AreaOcho this morning.

Dear divemedic,

Good Day,

Find below names of staff whose employment has been terminated with immediate effect.
Please find attached
<file attached that I will not link to or click on>

Kindly note that henceforth they should not be copied in all email correspondences.

Find where your name falls and comply accordingly.

Thanks and regards,
areaocho.com Human Resources
HR/payroll Manager

This comes as quite a shock to all of us here at AreaOcho. The employees that were let go will be sorely missed, but I want my readers to know that it will no affect posting or operations here at AreaOcho headquarters.

By Divemedic, ago

124th Waitress Regiment (ABN)

An airborne waitress was indignant that a passenger would call him a waiter. The thought that airborne waitresses/waiters could be insulted by a leg that would dare to not recognize the extensive training and authority that comes with waitress airborne school is too much to bear, so the plane turned around two hours into the flight.

The crew member responded that he was not a waiter and that he had the power to turn the plane around

I get that the passenger was a woke piece of shit, but the fact that a glorified waiter/waitress has the power to make an entire plane full of passengers return to the airport without repercussions or a valid reason is yet another reason why so many Americans avoid flying if they possibly can.

Safety and security are our top priorities, and we thank our customers for their understanding and our team members for their professionalism in managing a difficult situation,

American Airlines

If this guy was such a threat that the plane needed to land, then why would it spend two hours in the air returning to the city of origin and not simply land at the closest airport? This had nothing to do with safety and security, or the plane would have landed immediately instead of flying two extra hours.

Give some petty tyrant a bit of power, and they ALWAYS abuse it- that applies to cops, HOAs, and airborne waitresses.

By Divemedic, ago

Finals Are Over

I have been offline for a couple of days because I just took the final exam for my last class to get (yet another) Bachelor’s Degree. This time, it was a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. When I went to campus to take those exams, I carried a can of pepper spray and an expandable baton on my person and a firearm locked in my truck. Why? Because of the behavior in the video that JKB over at GFZ posted. Watch the video on the right:

As I posted in the comments there, Florida law says:

A person is justified in using or threatening to use force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. A person who uses or threatens to use force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force.

Assault doesn’t include a physical touch:

An “assault” is an intentional, unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to the person of another, coupled with an apparent ability to do so, and doing some act which creates a well-founded fear in such other person that such violence is imminent.

What is battery? While assault is defined as the threat to cause physical bodily harm, battery is the actual act of doing so. it is the crime of battery if you touch another person against his or her will or deliberately cause an injury to another person, however temporary or minor that injury may be. From the state statute:

The offense of battery occurs when a person:
1. Actually and intentionally touches or strikes another person against the will of the other; or
2. Intentionally causes bodily harm to another person.

Under section 784.03 of the Florida Statutes, indirect contact, such as throwing an object, can constitute battery if the indirect contact was intentionally caused by the accused and was against the other person’s will. Even spitting can constitute a battery. Mohansingh v. State, 824 So.2d 1053 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002) For that reason, I believe that shining a strobe in someone’s eye is either battery (the strobe is causing pain and disorientation), or assault (shining the light is intended to temporarily blind the victim and make it impossible for that victim to detect or defend against an attack).

Note that the law requires intent to touch, strike, or cause injury. That is referred to as mens rea.

All the law requires for nonlethal self defense is that you be in a place where you lawfully can be, and are the recipient of someone else’s imminent delivery of unlawful force. So:

  1. Are you where you can lawfully be? Yes. I am a student here to take an exam.
  2. Is the other person threatening to imminently use, or are they using unlawful force?
  3. Would a reasonable person believe that the attacker intended to touch, strike, or injure you in any way?
  4. Would a reasonable person believe that the person was about to (or was already attempting to) carry out that intent?

This meets the absolute lowest threshold for self defense. The real issue here is that you probably will get arrested, and it will cost you some money to defend yourself in court. Make sure that you have good CCW insurance, so it will pay for your legal defense.

I want you to note that there are perhaps half a dozen people that are assaulting him. That means the attackers will likely gang up on you, and that will likely mean that someone will be shot by the end of the fight.

Think about where this is headed.

By Divemedic, ago