Nope, a lot of US departments have an unofficial arrest quota and usually it's a pretty arbitrary number. A friend of mine who works in the police department of a very large, well known metropolitan area said their arrest quota is 1 arrest minimum every three months. My friend hates arresting people (he prefers…

Soft tissue injuries don't necessarily leave big marks on the surface. And even if it is a rash, how did it get there? Why is it so big? You can easily get marks that size on your legs, arms and butt, from accidentally bumping into stuff, and rashes on your hands, arms, feet and around your mouth from anything…

Yup, pretty much. They are trained to be extremely reactive if anyone makes any unpredictable motions towards the officer's bodies.

I have no idea how he was injured, and I haven't been able to make much sense of the various sequences of events that have been offered by different parties. But he does have a good sized abrasion on the back of his neck, which is not something you can inflict on yourself. Somehow, the back of his neck hit…

An explanation of the photos would have helped, but what stood out for me that he had an injury on the back of his neck. I don't know what happened, but police officers are trained to interpret any violence directed at their necks or throats as lethal force and will respond accordingly, as the neck houses all those…

I was going to add that in some states, you have to jump through more legal hoops to LEGALLY DRIVE A CAR than you do to buy a firearm. Both are pretty deadly, statistically speaking, but why does the one that is specifically intended to be deadly have less of a process to acquire it?

I second Tastycakes.... I really want to slap your husband. Though, I suppose if you do work fulltime, you could tell him he either starts hauling his weight or HE can pay for the nanny/housekeeper? (Or you dump his ass out on the street for a week?)

Or just the housekeeper. Fuck it. Take the full time job. Hire a…

Direct quote: " (She thought said friend had stolen $3000 from her purse. The friend survived, but it was obviously a very ugly incident.)"

Doesn't say the friend did. Also, I wouldn't shoot anyone over $3000. It's not worth it. (I mean, how many years of wages did she loose while in jail?)

I'm kind of stuck on the fact that she shot her friend in the stomach. No Remy Ma for me.

Then pat yourself on the back, because you're a rare one.

^^^THIS HAPPENS TO ME ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

I will have moments like that too - just snapshots of images, that I have NO WAY of knowing their origins beforehand, then encountering them later.

THE HORROR D:

This story more gives me the sads than anything - Spirit BlueFaced mommy finally thought she had found her baby alive.

hahaha, My husband was the same way. He was buying cheap stuff and was really upset when I wouldn't eat it. (We got into a big argument over the fact that I had asked him to buy "good vanilla ice cream" and he brought home a 4L tub of the store brand chemically stuff and then was super offended when I wouldn't eat it.…

You're one of those guys who is aware of his surroundings and actually wants them to be orderly. There is a decent portion of men like that, but they're not the majority.

Also, you may be able to behave like a responsible adult and hold a job and housework down at the same time like a pro - but a LOT of men are not…

This is totally true. I've been married to my husband for just over a year, and I'm still training him how to function as a unit, rather than him inhabiting the same apartment as a domestic servant.

The nice part is that he's willing to learn and wants to make me happy, but the bad part is that his response to the…

I'm almost at that point - my boobs are too big for anything that fits my waist and same with my ass - anything that fits over it just gapes at the waist.

My husband is an adult too, but in the beginning, in order to get him to wear anything fancier than a t-shirt, I pretty much had do exactly what Fancy Kirsten suggested. I would compliment him to death, run my hands all over him and then tear him out of the clothes when we got home. After 5-6 times, he started…

Awesome :P I used the suburban comment because that's the excuse hubby used on me when I couldn't help but laugh at his parallel parking attempts..... "Well, I grew up in [city] and you know it's all parking lots" :P

HAhaha, same here. Hubby dearest never learned to parallel park. He grew up in a suburban town that never was lacking for parking lots. I grew up in one of the most densely populated cities in N. America. I learned to parallel park that shit. :P