A classmate of mine is in prison because a female friend of his told him a dude assaulted her. He went and beat the dude to death. She lied, he never touched her, she was just mad at him and wanted to hurt him. She was never charged with anything, either.

If this were a print, I would buy it and hang it in my boss’s office. And probably my own plant room.

They do if they are unfortunate enough to be owned by someone with a talent for being able to kill anything :(

There is a crazy amount of news, both local and otherwise, that the media does not report on. I had no idea just how much until I started working with first responders. That gave me the opportunity to see and hear what actually goes on. There are way more shootings in most large towns and cities than its residents realize. More overdoses, more fires, a crazy number of larceny and breaking and entering calls. A LOT is kept quiet. A few years back, a guy got caught near here with a car trunk full of bombs. He only got caught because the idiot got the car repossessed for non-payment. Not one peep about it in the media.

I don’t have any G’s where I live. Could we maybe just try to get everyone/everywhere at least basic coverage first?

Oh man. At a previous job, I walked into our kitchen and one of the supervisors was on the other side of the room facing away and her skirt was tucked into her underwear. I was on my way over to her when our male director walk in the door. I’m not sure I’ve even seen a look of horror on someone’s face like what was on his lol. He turned around and walked right back out, and I fixed her skirt and just told her it was folded up odd. Didn’t tell her that her butt was on display and that she just mooned our big boss haha

No reception where I live! It’s port much in the middle of national forest tho.

Based on my own experience, this is how most cities handle their PD/FD funding, unfortunately. The fire department is just not important… until it is.