26-81 and 26-82 in front of Bunce Hall.
26-82MONTCLAIR, New Jersey — A man shot and killed a woman in front of their 11-year-old daughter inside a YMCA recreation center while a swimming class for preschoolers was going on nearby, officials said.
Authorities said Monica Paul, 31, argued with the suspect, Kenneth A. Duckett, 37, before he allegedly opened fire about 6:30 p.m.
Duckett, the father of her two children, then ran from the building and drove off in a white Jeep with another man, who has not been identified, authorities said. The vehicle was later found; both men remained at large late Thursday.
Witnesses said YMCA staffers and parents helped get the children out of the building. None of the children was hurt, authorities said.
Essex County Prosecutor Paula T. Dow said Paul was shot multiple times at close range as she sat with her daughter in a waiting area outside the pool where her 4-year-old son was swimming. Witnesses told investigators they heard at least three or four shots.
Authorities said the slain woman was granted a restraining order against Duckett late last year.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
HENDERSON, Ky. —
The CEO of a company that operates a western Kentucky plastics plant where an employee opened fire after an argument says a sixth person died Wednesday.Atlantis Plastics CEO Bud Philbrook says the killings are just a "total shock."
The employee began arguing with a supervisor around midnight, then shot the supervisor before opening fire in a break room, according to Philbrook. He initially shot and killed four people and wounded two, one critically, before turning the gun on himself.
One of the wounded died later Wednesday morning.
The plant in the Ohio River town of Henderson employs about 150 people and makes parts for refrigerators and plastic siding for homes. Employees were sent home for the day.
Henderson police Lt. David Piller said the two who were wounded were flown to hospitals in Evansville, Ind.
The shooting victims were scattered around the plant, Piller said, and the employee had apparently retrieved the handgun used in the shootings during a break.
"It appears the shooting was random at this time," Piller said.
A 3 p.m. news conference was planned Wednesday.
Names of those involved in the shooting have not been released.
Hours after the shooting, police had set up a roadblock on the street leading to the plant, which is in an industrial area on the southern side of Henderson.
In a news release on the company's Web site, Atlantis Plastics said it is a leading U.S. manufacturer of three kinds of products: polyethylene stretch films for wrapping pallets of materials, custom films for industrial and packaging uses, and molded plastic pieces used in products such as appliances and recreational vehicles.
The company has 700 employees, including those in Henderson, and annual sales of $110 million, according to business directory Hoovers.
This is a breaking news report. Stay with FOXNews.com for more as information becomes available.
How much are you willing to bet that the plant bans the possession of firearms on company property. I know that my employer does. Worked well for them in this case didn't it!
Stolen from Common Folks Using Common Sense
(as told to me by “USMC - Retired” of Leesburg, Georgia):
I’m reminded of the time little Catherine, the daughter of some friends, told me she wanted to be President one day.
Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there with us - and I asked Catherine - ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?’
Catherine replied - ‘I would give houses to all the homeless people.’
‘Wow - what a worthy goal you have there, Catherine.’ I told her, ‘You don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in the back yard and I will pay you $5 dollars. Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $5 dollars to use for a new house.’
Catherine (who was about 6) thought that over for a second, while her mom looked at me seething, and Catherine replied, ‘Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can pay him the $5 dollars?’
I said ‘Welcome to the Republican Party, Catherine.’
We haven’t seen them since then.
"I hope that the overall risk felt by students on campus never reaches a level where Lehigh feels it is necessary to allow concealed handguns on its campus," Katy Kuttner, '10, said.
Marie Brown '10, said weapons on campus would pose a security threat.
"A student could potentially use the concealed weapon to harm another student, even though the handguns are intended to defend oneself or another," Brown said.
"It is too controversial for Lehigh to adopt this idea as a policy," Brown said. "The intentions are for the overall safety of students, however, it could lead to injury or death, a risk too harsh to take on."
| Anti-Gun Bills Head to State Senate in New York! |
| Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| Make Your Voice Heard Today! This week, several anti-gun measures passed the State Assembly and are now heading to the State Senate, where they will most likely be referred to the State Senate Codes Committee. Assembly Bill 6525A, sponsored by State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-88), would create new sales and reporting requirements for licensed firearms dealers and require dealers to carry a minimum of $1,000,000 of liability insurance. AB6525A passed by a vote of 85 to 53. Assembly Bill 9819A, authored by State Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel (D-16), would ban the sale of semi-automatic handguns not equipped with so-called "microstamping" technology. The bill requires all semiautomatic pistols sold in the state to microstamp an array of characters that identify the make, model, and serial number of the pistol on the firing pin, which would copy the characters onto the cartridge case upon firing. AB9819A passed by a vote of 90 to 43. Assembly Bill 7331, sponsored by State Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D-61), would expand the ban on semi-automatic “assault weapons”, as well as require the ballistic “fingerprinting”(registration) of all semi-automatic “assault weapons” owned prior to a specified date. AB7331 passed by a vote of 85 to 46. Assembly Bill 3451, introduced by State Assemblyman David Koon (D-135), would expand New York’s failed ballistic imaging program. AB3451 passed by a vote of 79 to 49. Assembly Bill 2772, authored by State Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington (D-3), would ban the sale, use or possession of any firearm with a bore diameter .50 caliber or larger. This bill would require gun owners in possession of these firearms to surrender them to law enforcement. Assembly Bill 829, sponsored by State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-4), would prohibit the sale of any handgun that doesn’t contain a childproofing device or mechanism incorporated into the design of the handgun. AB829 passed by a vote of 86 to 46. Assembly Bill 76, sponsored by State Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg (D-20), would require the mandatory storage of all firearms. AB76 passed by a vote of 95 to 35. Assembly Bill 3447, introduced by State Assemblyman David Koon (D-135), would ban the sale or possession of frangible ammunition. AB3447 passed by a vote of 85 to 40. It is critical that all of these measures are voted down in order to protect the Second Amendment rights of all gun-owners in New York State. Please contact your State Senator today through the Senate switchboard at (518) 455-2800 and respectfully urge him or her to vote "NO" on these NRA-opposed measures. To find your State Senator, please click here. |
By Neal Boortz via Townhall.com:
Among the rights guaranteed (not “given” as Bill Clinton believes) to you in our Constitution are:
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of speech
- The right to peaceably assemble.
- The right to petition the government
- The right to keep and bear arms
- The right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures
- Protection from double jeopardy
- Due process
- A speedy and public trial by jury
- The right to legal counsel when charged with a crime
With one exception, the right to representation in court and a trial by jury, these rights require nothing of any other citizen but that they recognize your rights and not interfere with them.
Your “right to health care” would require some other person to give up a portion of their life or their property to either treat you or to provide you with drugs or medical implements. The Constitution does not provide for another individual to be indentured to you in this manner.
Therefore, you have no “right” to health care.
Deal with it.
Stolen from: Shamalama
Larry, over at Monster Hunter Nation, hands out a good frisking to some girl named Elizabeth who commented on his blog after his post about students in Utah being allowed to carry on campus. Go give him a read and then come back here for a little moreAs someone who graduated college in the recent past, this is an item that's close to my heart.
I always acted the same way regardless of if I was on campus, or off campus. While it's true that I had a little more lee-way then most students on a campus, because I knew all of the security officers (EMS will earn you that kind of respect), I was always on my best behavior. I always acted like a responsible adult.
Even at the ripe old age of 23, and nearly 24, I can count the number of times that I've been drunk on one hand, and I can probably count the number of times I've had something, make that anything, to drink on two hands. Never once while drinking was I tempted to pull out a firearm, and wave it around. In a similar manner, in the last year of carrying, I've never been tempted to pull my firearm out in public. The thought of doing so, without an extremely good reason, boggles my mind. By good reason, I mean I'm about to use my firearm to stop a forcibly felon, and chances are, it's against me or mine.
My point is this, crossing a magical border onto a school campus, or into the post office (federally prohibited place) does not change who I am, does not mean I'm going to go off the cuff. Crossing onto campus does not make me any less a responsible armed citizen, then it does make me any less of a trained and certified EMT. Why do politicians, any of them, or school bureaucrats and administrators, feel the need to deny me my rights?
While I'll fully admit that many of the guys I went to school with would have no interest in going through the hassles it takes to get a permit. That's fine, but what makes a college campus a magical place that needs to be gun free.
Can anyone answer that? Maybe post it in my comments. I would love to hear your ideas.
One of the topics that evolved to become near and dear to my heart in relation to EMS is the efficient and correct communication of information. Communicating information is important in all facets of EMS, from the call taker getting proper information from the caller, to the dispatcher relaying the correct information to the responding ambulance, and even from one responder to another. As an example, I have an old war story to tell, and as usual, some things have been changed.
Once upon a merry time, I was hanging around at the squad house, one of the nights I was just hanging out, I wasn't on duty, had no responsibility to run any calls, etc. Upon this interesting night in question, the duty crew was scattered to the four winds, each having gone their own way for the night. That being the case, when the tones dropped for a 911 call, I jumped in the truck with the one person from the crew that was still around. Dispatched as follows: “Ruraltown EMS, respond to 91 Hill Country Rd. for the suicidal female with the leg injury.” The run was dispatched as BLS only, and didn't meet any criteria for an ALS assignment.
Just before my new partner and I were going to pull out of the bay and respond to the call, a second member to the duty crew arrived at the building. I offered to jump off the truck, didn't want to crowd their style, but they said go ahead and stay, it's a psych call anyway, we might need the help. While in the process of responding to the call, the third member of the crew called us on a cell phone to let us know he was also responding, and we could pick him up a Ruraltown Elementary. We picked him up and continued on to the scene.
Upon arrival, we noticed there were 2 police cars on location, signed out with dispatch, made contact with the fire department guys who were just arriving and proceeded to knock on the door. After about 2 minutes of knocking with no answer, we called dispatch on the radio and asked for a call back to the location to get them to answer the door. Shortly thereafter, one of the police officers and a middle aged man walked around from the back of the house. The motioned us to follow them.
As we rounded the back corner of the house, I noticed a second police officer and a middle aged lady standing behind the house on a slight incline. They appeared to be talking. Making the first mistake of the night, I assumed this was our patient. The rest of my crew also made this mistake. I started to speak with the man whom I took as her husband, to record the pertinent details for the run sheet. As one of my crew mates attempted to make contact with the “patient” and figure out what was going on, the police officer stopped us and said, “That's not her, the one you're looking for is over there,” and turned on his flashlight, illuminating the prone figure of a much younger woman laying on the ground.
A quick assessment revealed the patient was probably intoxicated, although we couldn't be sure, was only semi-conscious, and more then a little combative. We learned from the patient's parents that she had a mental health history, including suicidal tendencies, and had decided to jump off the back deck.
But deck you say, that would make this a victim of a fall, and because the deck is a second story deck, and we're on a hill, that's greater then twice the patient's height right? That's a significant mechanism of injury, and requires an ALS dispatch (at least in NJ.) And oh, she's only semi-conscious, lets get us some help coming this way pronto.
Call dispatch, have the ALS unit assigned to the job, and fly the trauma helicopter. Local protocols dictate that a transport of more then 20 minutes to the trauma center, and the patient meets fly criteria. Semi-conscious patient definitely meets trauma criteria, even though we were not sure if decreased level of consciousness was due to the fall, or the alcohol.
As the paramedics are responding, they call us on the radio, looking for an update. It's kind of like a “hey, we heard this get dispatched, why the hell are you bothering us for this. It should be no big deal” message. Because of the terrain and where we were, the portable radio I had was worthless, so I ended up calling one of the medics on the phone.
I gave him the scoop, and explained where we were, what was going on (rest of the crew had the patient packaged), and that we were rolling to the landing zone to meet the helicopter.
While we were transporting the patient to the LZ, she stopped breathing for appox. 30 seconds. Upon arrival at the LZ, the patient was breathing on her own again. Paramedics arrived, did their thing, and shortly thereafter, the helicopter arrived and transported the patient to Big Town Trauma.
The whole point of that story is this:
Dispatched as “Suicidal female with a leg injury.”
End result – yeah, she was suicidal, and she had a leg injury for sure. But somehow, I get the feeling that the whole jumping off a deck, and only being semi-conscious thing was just a LITTLE more important then the suicidal feelings at that point.
NOTE: I've also worked as both a dispatcher, and a call taker. I sympathize with those individuals truly and honestly, it is a tremendously stressful job. I'm merely attempting to show how a lack of communication can lead to major problems in the field.
EMS in the state of New Jersey is set up in a different manner than most readers will be able to relate to. Most of the EMS systems that I've read about, and viewed as an outsider are some combination of EMT-B's, EMT-I's, EMT-Advanced's, and Paramedics. Everyone rides around in an ambulance, and sometimes different counties provide different levels of care. That is, one county will staff its ambulances with 1 EMT-B and 1 Paramedic, while the next county over will have and EMT-B and an EMT-I.
New Jersey runs on a tiered system for EMS. There are only two levels of pre-hospital care, EMT-B and Paramedic, or EMT-P. In the NJ system, ambulances are staffed by two EMTs, and paramedic services are provided by an MICU unit, staffed by 2 paramedics, who ride in a separate vehicle. Many ALS systems (which must be hospital based in NJ) have elected to use SUV's or chase cars of some kind, because they do not have transport responsibility. This system changes the dynamics of the system a little bit.
For example, on a BLS call, only the local ambulance will be dispatched, the MICU units will not be sent to the run at all, unless the BLS upgrades the call after making patient contact. For an ALS call, one that meets ALS criteria from dispatch, both the ALS and the BLS units are sent. What that means is that for a seriously sick patient, there are actually two providers dealing with the patient on the way to the ER, either 2 paramedics, or an EMT and a paramedic (depending on nature of call, and the specific situation.) If an ALS call is dispatched, and there is no paramedic unit available to respond, the BLS unit is sent without an ALS unit, and an ALS unit is sent as soon as one is free.
This type of system also does not lend itself to much non-call related interaction between the BLS providers and the ALS providers. While this is not always the case, in most of New Jersey, the BLS crews are stationed at different buildings then the ALS crew. Where each town might have a BLS ambulance assigned on duty at any given time, there may only be two ALS units on duty for the entire county. There are exceptions, but this is a general rule. In the rural parts of the state (yes, there are still a few of them) there are often times when the ER is 45 minutes from the scene of the call, and the paramedics are not going to be able to rendezvous with the BLS unit because of geography and time constraints. In this type of situation, EMT-B's are often stuck taking care of patients that need a higher level of care, which has a tendency to mature an EMT in a quicker manner. Additionally, an emphasis is placed on the EMT's riding in the rural area to learn when an ALS unit is NEEDED, and when it isn't. It doesn't do the system any good to tie up a paramedic unit if it isn't needed, and there may be a job going on across the county were the medics are really needed.
I figured I'd post this quick intro to EMS in NJ because most of my stories will be based there, and so I wanted people to understand why when the ambulance pulls up on scene, there are not paramedics arriving. Furthermore, in most of my stories, involving my volunteer squad, it bears remembering.
1.) I lived in a rural area.
2.) My squad operated 4 ambulances and a light rescue truck (2 duty crews at night). We covered 4 towns.
3.) One 24 hour paramedic truck covered the county, and a 12 hour truck ran during the day, so 2 units during the day, 1 at night.
4.) Nearest Trauma / Cardiac Center - 45+ minutes from my closest EMS station.Hope you enjoy the stories!
A Flint, Mich., college student may never have to fight for a parking space again.
That's because he's built his own fully operational half-size replica German World War II Panzer tank.
• Click here for video of a parking-lot blitzkrieg.
"I took it home, driving it around in this white-picket-fence neighborhood, and one of the neighbors called the cops on us," Kettering University student Will Foster tells the Flint Journal. "[They] came and they just told us to head back home, but they were also laughing at it because they had never seen anything like that before."
Foster figures his mini-weapon of doom cost about $10,000 to build, most of it on trial-and-error research. It runs on a three-cylinder diesel engine and has a 360-degree turret with a working cannon powered by an air tank that can fire golf balls and empty cans of Red Bull.
He first designed the tank when he was 14, but only when Foster got to Kettering did he find a community of engineering geeks to help him build it. He parks it next to his Theta Xi frat house in a space labeled "Panzer parking. Violators will be totaled."
Supposedly posted on the wall at First Baptist Church in Summersville, West Virginia:
1. Just one God
2. Put nothin’ before God
3. Watch yer mouth
4. Git yourself to Sunday meetin’
5. Honor yer Ma & Pa
6. No killin’
7. No foolin’ around with another fellow’s gal
8. Don’t take what ain’t yers
9. No tellin’ tales or gossipin’
10. Don’t be hankerin’ for yer buddy’s stuff
Any questions?
Stolen From: Common Folks Using Common Sense
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