I’m from the UK and live here. The police don’t often shoot people here, most of them aren’t armed. Most criminals are also not armed with guns.

In this situation in my country, she wouldn’t have a gun and I, Officer Glass wouldn’t have a gun so I’d probably spend 4 hours with her waiting for the ambulance and social workers.

Well when I started discussing this way back on Friday night/early Saturday morning I was trying to distract myself from boredom and how much I wanted a damn drink ;-)

I hope you won’t mind me saying but I’m getting a real “I am bored at work” vibe from you......

“No where have you justified tasing someone for just leaving a room.”

I still need to try Deadwood but if I really miss the boat on a prestige show, sometimes I just can’t be bothered. Netflix is just too much man :-)

No it sounds like she was agitated and paranoid and could easily have been leaving the room so she could attempt suicide. It’s a specific situation and I’m sure you are capable of differentiating between a distressed mentally ill person possibly leaving to commit suicide and any number of other situations during which…

As a last case scenario to prevent option 2 ;-) But we will never agree on this. I’m outside the gun thing and it’s never going to be my normal (unless shit takes a really bad turn after Brexit, I guess ;-) )

Mattie Laron’s story is awful. I’m so glad she had the UCLA experience with Miss Val, who seemed to end up as a sort of de facto therapist and life coach for the former elites who were chewed up and spat out by the national team.

I definitely remember reading that McKayla Maroney would text Aly and one of the other gymnasts in London to come and “rescue her” when she kept ending up alone with Nassar.

Yeah toy guns should be required to be a different colour or carry some sort of distinctive mark to indicate they are toy guns in the US.

Again really don’t understand why tasing people is beyond the pale but shooting them dead is just good clean American fun.

Happy Birthday :-)

My thoughts exactly:

Yep, I agree with everything you wrote there. I’m on a few gymnastics boards and I have to say I tend towards the “shut it down and start a new organisation with new people” side of things. It would give them a chance to put a framework in place that cuts out the Tudor Court/who is in favour element that has plagued…

Well it’s easier here because neither party has a gun in this sort of situation (UK). But also it seems to me you can’t really deliver good medical care/psychological help if someone is in the room pointing a gun at the patient. You have medical staff trying to gain the persons’s trust and police threatening the…

Well said and agreed....

Happy Birthday :-)

Since Podmass sounds like it won’t be a thing this week, Marnie Shure was on Teen Creeps and it was a really fun episode. They were talking about a Point Horror book by Sinclair Smith called “Dream Date” in which a dead dude stalks the heroine in her dreams. I did read this book because I remember the cover but as…

No Podmass this week? I wanted to say that your Dream Date Teen Creeps episode was really good. I remember reading it when I was young but almost none of the actual details other than the cover.....