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[MADem]

68. My point is what I posted. Since you're acting like you know more than anyone here, how's about

YOU tell us how you would have managed the situation. Be specific, now!

YOU clearly know more than the staff of that place, that initiated emergency procedures to INVOLUNTARY COMMIT this guy to a MENTAL HOSPITAL because they couldn't handle him anymore.

YOU clearly know more than the ambulance crew, that has experience in subduing violent patients to be transported to involuntary commitment in a mental hospital. The ambulance crew called the police--are you saying they had no right to do that? Surely they knew the police weren't coming with cookies and milk--the police were coming to do what THEY were unable to do--subdue a violent individual with a knife.

And YOU clearly know more than the police, who -- if they really wanted to use some of that git-er-done "excessive force"--would have just pulled out a gun and shot the guy with a cheap, simple bullet, and been justified in so doing because he was waving a butcher knife he'd taken out of his apartment kitchen.


So....I'm waiting for YOUR solution, which apparently, none of those "idiots" on the staff of this assisted living facility could come up with, and none of those "morons" on the ambulance crew could come up with, either.

And those "stupid" police--maybe they should have just kneecapped the guy with a bullet, hmmmm? Or sang him a song? Thrown a net over him, like in the cartoons?

I doubt this was the first time the staff of that facility had problems with this guy. They don't commit people unless they are a danger to themselves and others. And ambulance crews aren't without experience with combative patients either.

I'm waiting to hear your grand plan--maybe we can send it to that elderly housing facility, and to that ambulance crew, so they can do it YOUR way in future, because they must be pretty doggone thick if they had to call the cops, n'est pas?