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hillfighter wrote:

CHLLady wrote:I believe her behavior will backfire on her when she goes to job interview, once so she finishes university. All HR has to do is google her name. Her application is going in the bin, this one is too emotional for our fast paced professional environment.

When will that be? She's 24.

A-R wrote:

WildBill wrote:

A-R wrote:background for the real story (the guy survived and is fine, no major injuries)

Thanks for the post. I am glad that wasn't seriously injured and he got all A's and one B on his finals. Many years prior, to getting my degree, I was taught to look both ways before crossing a street.

In my experience, engineers (especially engineering students and ESPECIALLY t-sippin' engineering students ) don't have a lot of street smarts

A-R wrote:background for the real story (the guy survived and is fine, no major injuries)

A-R wrote:APD has suspended the jaywalking task force and t.u. students again can just decide for themselves when it is safe to cross Guadalupe Street.





Gig 'Em!

Oldgringo wrote:

WildBill wrote: {snippety doo dah}
A couple of posts have suggested that she is spoiled or led a sheltered life. Isn't it possible that she is just immature?

At what age is one expected to grow up and be responsible for one's actions? Somewhere in our Bible, it is suggested that 12 is the '....age of accountability'.... I'm okay with that.

Teaching responsibility and consideration are just a couple of the duties of parents. I wonder who bailed her out and/or otherwise came to her rescue?

Oldgringo wrote:

WildBill wrote:

SewTexas wrote:you guys seem to want a teenage girl to react to being grabbed from behind like a 50 year old man! You want her to have the Situational Awareness that has taken you a lifetime to develop. she was a College Student!!!! A Teenager!!!! A Kid! she could be anywhere from 18 to 22? possibly older, but statistically not. She wasn't a middle-aged man, she wasn't going to react like one, like I said earlier, the cop knew where he was setting up, he should have been prepared.

Amanda Jo Stephen, 24, was jogging along an Austin, Texas, road with her headphones on when a police officer grabbed her.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... z2uTCPLF8g" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think she would be upset if you called her a "girl".

A 24 year old woman acting like a 12 year old spoiled girl leads me to think that she has led a very sheltered, me-first life.

SewTexas wrote:you guys seem to want a teenage girl to react to being grabbed from behind like a 50 year old man! You want her to have the Situational Awareness that has taken you a lifetime to develop. she was a College Student!!!! A Teenager!!!! A Kid! she could be anywhere from 18 to 22? possibly older, but statistically not. She wasn't a middle-aged man, she wasn't going to react like one, like I said earlier, the cop knew where he was setting up, he should have been prepared.

Amanda Jo Stephen, 24, was jogging along an Austin, Texas, road with her headphones on when a police officer grabbed her.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... z2uTCPLF8g" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

SewTexas wrote:she needs to work on her "emotional intelligence" ???? what the heck is that????

let me put it this way....is your wife one of the women who carry? Cali and I carry, TAM's wife carries, if one of us is grabbed from behind, that cop is going to be facing a gun, all because he didn't announce himself in such a way as to be noticed by someone who couldn't hear him, weather that person has headphones (as is more, and more common now, so train on it) or that person is deaf or has some hearing loss. I thought police officers were trained in de-escalation? or at least not escalation. college kids are a ball full of hormones, it's all about escalation, he knew that when he set up shop there, he knew going in what his "target audience" would be, so to speak. he should have been more prepared.

MechAg94 wrote:At first, I visualized an officer catching up to her and grabbing/tapping her shoulder to get her attention and letting her turn around and see that cops are trying to stop her. In that case, someone might jump or freak out for a couple seconds, but should calm down once they realize they are looking at a cop, not some mugger.

Hard to miss Walton and Johnson in the morning.

MotherBear wrote:

tomtexan wrote:

WildBill wrote:You sure can hear her scream.

That's for sure!

Reminds me of my 3-year-old when I tell him not to throw sand and remove him from the playground.

chasfm11 wrote:

Texas_Blaze wrote:There's been a lot of threads on OC and bad tactics. Well, this seems to be bad tactics by the officers. Honestly, nothing better to do? You want public support? Don't engage in bad tactics like this. A jogger minding her own business is a criminal? If she was jaywalking, give her a ticket and move on.

It seems like the transit police everywhere are more aggressive. I worked at Renaissance tower in Dallas for awhile and jaywalking there was going to get you not only a ticket but a dose of real attitude. NJ and NY had the Port Authority police and many of those that I saw were definitely over the top.

There is a case to be made about being so into your tunes with earbuds that you don't understand what is happening around you. But it sure looks like this was a "make a public example" situation. Granted her response didn't help her after the heavy handed tactics had begun.

She was jaywalking. Bad on her. Ending up in the back of a cruiser for that offense seems like overkill no matter how I try to look at it.

Texas_Blaze wrote:There's been a lot of threads on OC and bad tactics. Well, this seems to be bad tactics by the officers. Honestly, nothing better to do? You want public support? Don't engage in bad tactics like this. A jogger minding her own business is a criminal? If she was jaywalking, give her a ticket and move on.