[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by quickdraw

Knowing people who wear camouflage in Vermont, I'd worry about opening my door to a hail of bullets.....mistaken for a wild turkey.

Turkey season is most dangerous for other hunters. It's just a bit dangerous to be entirely camo clad and imitating the calls of the turkeys everyone's after...

[flu189]

Being retired from LE I would wager there is much more to this story than meets the eye making it difficult to cast dispersions on both parties involved, however, I must admit I know from experience that there are some real goofy cops in Vermont which pretty well matches up to represent some the quite goofy clientele they must serve and deal with as well.

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by flu189

Being retired from LE I would wager there is much more to this story than meets the eye making it difficult to cast dispersions on both parties involved, however, I must admit I know from experience that there are some real goofy cops in Vermont which pretty well matches up to represent some the quite goofy clientele they must serve and deal with as well.

Thank you...that has been what I was trying to get across. We received one side of the story which is not enough to determine what actually happened.

The few LEOs I have met with in VT have been professional, courteous and from my observation: not goofy. That is why I have given them the benefit of the doubt in this situation.

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

There must be no tolerance for police acting illegally.

Apparently someone driving by called them. I eventually found out who did it, and it was a NY'er who had been driving down the road...doesn't even live in the state, comes from a fascist police state. tries to apply NY insanity to VT. And on top of that the officer was originally from MA...

NY has become so mired by gun laws because of the fanatical gun control liberals. We have a Congresswoman on LI who got into office because her husband was murdered during the LIRR massacre back in 93 (Google Colin Ferguson & Carolyn McCarthy)

The alleged NYer who turned you in very well might not have been aware of VT's gun laws and acted as they would have had you been in NY. Not saying what you endured is right, but asking you to understand their NY mindset. That the cops allegedly hasseled and detained you for your excercising your constitutional right -- I find that wrong.

The cop was originally from MA? The only cops I have EVER had issues with were on the job in MA. The NYer was trying to do what would have been the right thing if it was in NY, you as a VTer was doing the legal thing in VT and leave it to the Mass to make a mountain out of a molehill.

[Dwatted Wabbit]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

A little known candidate is out petitioning for the ballot in the cold weather. His dress of choice, camouflage, is not what many people would expect a potential local politician to wear. Perhaps the scared woman thought he was a drifter or worse? Just as the petitioner feels he has the right to go door-to-door, the woman has the right to feel safe in her home when a strange man in camo appears unsolicited at her door. The police were doing their job by checking into who this strange man was, and by asking him to go home and change. They did NOT tell him to stop petitioning, merely to change. It is the fault of the petitioner for not using his noggin and investing in good, warm, non-camo outerwear.

We are taught from a young age to dress appropriately for what we are doing. If it was cold, and he was seeking office, the aspiring alderman should have invested in more subdued and campaign appropriate outerwear.

I see nothing wrong with the police suggesting he change his clothing from looking like a camo-clad who-knows-what to those of a petitioning potential politician. Perhaps this gentleman should try and place himself in the position of the woman whom he had frightened.

Did you see The Colbert Report when he was in the sand box?

Had a very kewl sports jacket in digital camo. Maybe that's what the door-to-door guy needs...

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Dwatted Wabbit

Did you see The Colbert Report when he was in the sand box?

Had a very kewl sports jacket in digital camo. Maybe that's what the door-to-door guy needs...

I missed that one....now I am going to have to find it on youtube -- or would you happen to have a link?