NY Daily News reports on this sad story:
Brooklyn World War II vet Walter Martin and his wife, Rose, aren’t at the top of the NYPD’s most wanted list – it just feels that way.
Cops have swooped down on the law-abiding couple’s modest Marine Park home at least 50 times in the last eight years hunting bad guys – only to learn they were chasing a bad address.
They’ve come looking for murder and robbery suspects. Once, cops came hunting for one of their own – an NYPD officer accused of raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter.
Computer problem; not a cop problem. Sure looks like a cop problem though, the way you’ve got it set up.
That’s kind of dishonest, isn’t it?
Why is this posted in the Categories: “Politics”, “Scams”, “military”?
Picked at random or don’t understand English very well?
The fickle finger of fate writes, and then moves on. ==== Unless it gets stuck on your address.
“Rose Martin said cops have always been respectful and never crashed in.” /// Smart People. I would say the very same thing no matter what the facts were. Its how to live long enough to worry about heart attacks.
No Ender, it IS a cop problem. If it happened 2 or 3 times, it’s a computer problem, if it happens 50 times the cops just don’t give a shit.
I wonder what their address is? If is is something generic like 200 s main st. then it would be surprising that lots of criminals are making up that generic address.
They need a blog.
It has happened before, as far back as 1994
That’s clever. Let’s do testing in our production system. Let’s keep putting the same test data in our production systems. Let’s test New York’s 911 system in production. What can possibly go wrong?
check the basement you fools!!!!!
When this is all said and done we are going to find out that this was the previous residence of one of the programmers of the cops’ system and he used his own address for test data or something and that it keeps getting inserted in weird conditions. Watch http://thedailywtf.com/ for the follow-up to this story.
You say it’s a computer problem, huh? Are these the same computers that Obama is using to digitize our health records? I guess I’ll just have to out when they cut me open me up to take out my appendix for the 7th time.
I got a hunch. The 51st time’s the charm.
#3 – No, it’s not a cop problem. Do you really thing it’s always the same cops showing up time after time? It’s whoever they have available in the area. In the article, it even says the cops aren’t even from the same precincts. Cops also get transferred, retire, start as rookies…
And this quote seals the deal for me…
“Rose Martin said cops have always been respectful and never crashed in.”
So take that, you cop-bashers.
@Mac Guy
“Rose Martin said cops have always been respectful and never crashed in.”
Yet … wait for that SWAT team. I hope that couple has good insurance and a lawyer on retainer.