Could You Believe This One............?

Seems strange, with the gun out and mask. When I have had a false alarm from my system, they don't show up with guns drawn and you always get a call from the monitoring company.

I don't understand why a cop responding on a call from an alarm company would be wearing a ski mask pulled down over his face.

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check the weather channel lately....

there's a serious cold snap going down the east coast this week.

I just passed a cruiser today at the scene of an apparent one car accident.

The officer had a black knit ski cap on that had "POLICE" stitched in it, and looked like he was freezing his tuckus off.

xXxplosive said:

I don't know much of the ballance of this other than it was a legit LEO

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How do you know this? Everything you've said in this thread indicates it wasn't a real cop. How are you so sure?

Knocking on the door with a Ski mask on,....? Legit LEO,...?
Okay supposing he is Legit, he lacks common sense. I think at least he should be repremanded.
I see NO reason for an LEO walking from the Patrol Car to the door to need a mask. This is wrong on so many levels it is stupid.
It is definatly something that would get him shot in many parts of the Country,

...plainclothes cops don't answer residential alarm calls...too much danger of a scared homeowner shooting them...I smell sardines...

"after she gets the dogs in some kind of order she goes to the front door and opens it"

How did someone this frackin stupid get through medical school?

She just goes to the door after the alarm went off and this guy just happned to be standing there. No knock. No "Its the police". Ummm. Sure.

Folks,

Advising someone not to do stupid things is one thing. Outright CALLING them stupid is another thing altogether. Let's be High Road about discussing this, shall we?

Thanks,

lpl

Hey, you started this catfight...

Weird stuff goes on out there sometimes. And people are flat out unpredictable.

I can say one thing about the situation as described- personally, I wouldn't give house room to a dog that would just let an absolute stranger walk right in the door when the owner was frightened.

lpl

Maybe the cop was the prowler...? With this story who knows...she shouldn't of open
the door like that, she should of been on the phone with 911

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Hey, the only thing I can think of is something similar to what happened down here...a cop decided to start robbing banks on his way to work...knocked over 3 or 4, I do believe, before he was caught.

One problem here. She opened the door. I wouldn't have opened the door.... that way I avoid giving a bad guy access.... and I avoid going down for murder/manslaughter for killing a police officer. Now, given this story, if it's true the cop messed up. BUT I don't see the justice system acknowledging his error if he'd ended up in a casket.

There are a few options here, as I see it.

1. This fellow is engaging in the time honored THR game of making up silly scenarios with which to troll S&T and avoid the "No absurd scenarios" rule.

2. This is an internet example of the old game of Telephone where the story gets more garbled with each retelling.

3. Things happened exactly as the OP described. I don't consider this a very likely option.

I can say one thing about the situation as described- personally, I wouldn't give house room to a dog that would just let an absolute stranger walk right in the door when the owner was frightened.

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From the OP, it sounds like the lady locked the dogs in another room before answering the door.

Balog sums it up nicely. This is at best a third-hand telling of a tale. Details, and perceptions of details, deteriorate in the happening, telling, retelling, and reretelling of an incident.

This one seems about wrapped up, don't you think?

Nope. I have one more theory that doesn't make the cop look like a criminal, nor the homeowner seem like the most naive doctor in the world who can't tell a cop from a pervo/burglar. It all boils down to a detail that some of you have missed. One that is actually quite a coincidence.

From the OP, it sounds like the lady locked the dogs in another room before answering the door.

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No, she wasn't answering the door.
OP stated:

after she gets the dogs in some kind of order she goes to the front door and opens it slightly to look out.

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So several minutes after hearing a loud noise that sets her alarm off and gets her dogs barking, she finally happens to crack the door just as the officer is walking up. This is a pretty good coincidence.

Now, I also find it hard to believe a cop would walk up to the front door with gun drawn, but when seeing or hearing the door open BEFORE he even got there, he might have drawn in preparation of apprehending a burglar and/or defending himself.

For all we know, he was planning to take off the mask when he got there, knock, gun holstered, and identify himself as the police. But he was startled into a different response.

Then after identifying that the lady was the homeowner, he assumed she already knew who he was. Afterall, from his perspective it would only be natural to assume she had seen him pull up through a window, then come to open the front door for him.

The only part of the theory I'm having trouble with is that he didn't yell "police" when he drew his firearm. Perhaps he had the gun drawn, already. Maybe there have been some armed break-ins in the neighborhood, recently.

Fair enough. Until someone actually KNOWS more details/facts about this situation and can present that information here, we're done with this one. Speculation is not helpful.

lpl