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Originally Posted by jalora
The bottom line is always the same: Police officers are not your friends.
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*sigh* This is why sometimes I hate my job...
Ok, I felt the need to elaborate:
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Dave Newman, 48, disobeyed repeated orders by emergency personnel to leave the water, police said.
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I'm sure that the guys intentions were good, but if he was told repeatedly not to interfere with the rescue effort, and he made the concious decision to disobey, then he can face the consequences. If the rescuers wanted his help, and he was indeed helping, I doubt that they would have had a problem with his efforts. If he was "getting in the way" or otherwise making their rescue effort more difficult, then he deserved to get locked up.
I was handling a traffic accident one day, directing traffic, and a guy didn't like the way I was handling it, so he took it upon himself and started to direct traffic himself. He almost caused a serious accident. I'm sure that his intentions were good, but he ended up creating more problems.
If this guy had been told several times not to get in the way, and he ended up drowning, we'd all be calling him a dumbass. Do the ends justify the means?