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Bullitt Bob
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Posted: July 22 2006,11:48 am |
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Check out this video of an Idaho traffic stop and read the incident report.
This is one lucky patrolman. 
Please be careful out there and don't let some a-hole catch you off guard. 
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Bullitt Bob
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Mesquite, NV.
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Posted: July 23 2006,4:10 am |
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| Quote (Carrera Elite @ July 22 2006,7:55 pm) | Very Lucky Guy!! Damn Criminals!!  |
God was riding shotgun with him that day for sure.
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freddog
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Posted: July 24 2006,12:39 am |
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I've been lucky in my career. Several "close calls", not such a big deal and pretty much what you expect when you take the job, but I did get caught once staring down the barrel about 15' away.
I had just pulled up to the house with limited info on an unknown trouble. The guy stepped out right in front of my patrol car and sighted me in. In my opinion, cops are most vulnerable sitting in their car. Limited mobility, inability to draw quickly, and a firefight through a windshield is a tactical nightmare. Luckily for me, he decided to take his own life instead of mine. Now for the scary part...the suspect was mentally unstable, paranoid that everyone was drug dealers out to kill him. 2 minutes before my arrival he executed his stepfather in front of his mother, and as I arrived he was stepping out the front door to go next door and execute the family of 5 who he believed were also out to kill him. This guy wouldn't have thought twice about killing me.
It's been a couple years since this incident, but I've relived it and tried to think of what I could have done different a thousand times. I still don't have an answer, nothing could have made the situation better or safer for me. The bright side of the story is that due to a fast response time to the original call (less than 90 seconds) five lives were spared.
That day changed me forever.
Thanks for your concern for me, my fellow law enforcement officers, and of course our families. For every 100 assholes I deal with every day, one "thank you" or kind note of concern like that makes my job worthwhile.
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