sgtpontiac
Older, Wiser and Still Buildin'
We have a drunk in town....retired Marine....drinks about 2 to 3 fifths of Vodka a day.....(don't know why he is still around but...).. he gets drunk and lonely so he calls dispatch....rambles on until the dispatcher gets another call....we've always kind of humored him....got our of rehab a week ago...two months sober.....drunk since the day he left rehab.....
Last night he decides he is going to kill himself....ties a heavy duty electrical cord to the railing on the second floor apartment balcony and loops it a couple of times around his neck...calls me on his cell phone..asks for me personally...(knows I'm ex military plus I'll try to help him where I can)...says he's 'Done, can't take it anymore, doesn't want any of the neighborhood kids see him, wants me to call EMS but by the time they get there it will be done..I have the male dispatcher get on the line talking like me....guy is too drunk to realize that it's not me....I hustle over to the apartments and before he knows it, I'm below the balcony with him on the outside ready to jump...he throws down the phone and tells me to move....while I'm distracting him two other officers go into the apartment and sneak up on him and grab him...pull him over the railing...now he's hooked up and going to be petitioned for psych eval at the VA hospital....
Here's the funny part....had he jumped, he would have hit the ground before the cord even got close to tight...he had so much slack he would have hit the ground first......
Last night he decides he is going to kill himself....ties a heavy duty electrical cord to the railing on the second floor apartment balcony and loops it a couple of times around his neck...calls me on his cell phone..asks for me personally...(knows I'm ex military plus I'll try to help him where I can)...says he's 'Done, can't take it anymore, doesn't want any of the neighborhood kids see him, wants me to call EMS but by the time they get there it will be done..I have the male dispatcher get on the line talking like me....guy is too drunk to realize that it's not me....I hustle over to the apartments and before he knows it, I'm below the balcony with him on the outside ready to jump...he throws down the phone and tells me to move....while I'm distracting him two other officers go into the apartment and sneak up on him and grab him...pull him over the railing...now he's hooked up and going to be petitioned for psych eval at the VA hospital....
Here's the funny part....had he jumped, he would have hit the ground before the cord even got close to tight...he had so much slack he would have hit the ground first......