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Sorry (because I am usually pro-LEO), but I think the cops could have communicated using some kind of basic hand signals, and then if the woman still didn't cooperate, I think that they probably could have disarmed her without tasering her. I mean, really -- two cops vs. an 87-year-old woman? I think that if they couldn't have done that, they are in the wrong line of work.
Good grief, she's 87. Unless she was lunging at them with the knife, there was no reason for this. Its not like she could take off sprinting and stabbing people.
"Mayberry" is actually Mt. Airy, N.C. Andy Griffith grew up there and patterned many of the characters and scenarios from his hometown.
However "Mt. Pilot" is actually Pilot Mount, a large granite rock formation that is a state park. There are surrounding towns around Mt. Airy were used to name characters, like Lawson, Campbell, Taylor, and Crump.
There is no corresponding town for Barney or Opie.
The series was shot in Desilu studios in CA, not in the town of Mt. Airy.
They do not routinely tase old ladies on the Andy Griffith Show for cutting dandelions.
Right, the relative referred to the fictional town of Mayberry from a television show depicting a time and era from over 50 years ago. Fiction. Perhaps she thinks Sheriff Andy Taylor, played by actor Andy Griffith, is a real sheriff which if true demonstrates a serious disconnect between reality and fantasy. Maybe she thinks that she is just another character in a scripted television program. She can call Sheriff Taylor and Barney as character witnesses.
Good grief, she's 87. Unless she was lunging at them with the knife, there was no reason for this. Its not like she could take off sprinting and stabbing people.
She could have just as well been under a cracker co-cane.
It's an officer's duty to see what they see.
Last edited by Hyperthetic; 06-27-2019 at 03:10 PM..
On the other hand if she had a basic grasp of the English language we wouldn’t be having this conversation. 20 years in country is too long not to have an even basic understanding of the language spoken here.
On the other hand if she had a basic grasp of the English language we wouldn’t be having this conversation. 20 years in country is too long not to have an even basic understanding of the language spoken here.
No language use could as adequately explain what she was doing as was the obvious of what she was doing.
Cops are trained not to accept the obvious; they are trained to be suspect!
No language use could as adequately explain what she was doing as was the obvious of what she was doing.
Cops are trained not to accept the obvious; they are trained to be suspect!
She could have dropped the knife when they asked her to drop it instead of smiling and continuing to approach them with a knife in her hand like some crazed nut job.
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