NEW AMBULANCES AND TASERS
By Kat • Aug 9th, 2008 • Category: Opinions and EditorialsPersonally, I think the new ambulances and tasers were money well spent for once. I know that sometimes several ambulances are scattered in all different directions in the county, transferring to Lexington/Cincinnati, etc. and were, in my opinion, much needed. Does anyone have any comments on this? Anyone against the tasers being purchased? After all, this ain’t Mayberry anymore and hasn’t been for quite a while.
August 10th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Sounds like the Morehead Police are going to get a chance to try out them Tasers that Wal-Mart bought for them as they are out looking for a shoplifter that Wal-mart reported.
Man! Buy them some tasers and they will commandeer the Fire Department’s Thermal Imaging Device to track shoplifters down for you.
Wonder if they would be my private security guards if I Bought them a couple of new shotguns?
August 10th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
HEY GREAT IDEA nighthawk! Can’t ya just hear it now………"Don’t taz me bro!"
August 10th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I am opening up Scanner Scoop on a ‘trial basis’, just be respectful in the comments is all I ask. We’ll see how it goes.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
"Don’t Taze me bro" was a tragedy and a travesty
for our country and has become the catchphrase for
making fun of people that get tazed for protesting stuff
or in genneral. The young man has/had legitimate questions
and points for John Kerry that I would ask him myself
if given the chance in a very irritated and impolitely manner.
The skulls gave him the nickname "long devil" for some reason?
I have to wonder what it would take to
change someone’s perspective on that.
IF say for instance all the cats and dogs in Rowan
County were to be euthanized for costs and "health reasons"
and those protesting with picket signs were tazered and
hauled off for not having all the proper permits
would that change the tude about "Don’t taze me bro"?
August 21st, 2008 at 1:48 am
On the ambulence issue, a few years back someone’s relation took over at the HQ and one of the 1st things they did was to attempt to sell off the only 4wd unit they had and spent a bunch of funds revamping the building, as one I know reffered to it as "the pumpkin" was not happy bout the color or the way the money was spent, getting a new AC unit that supposedly was not needed amoung other things.
But the idea of not having a 4wd ambulence is a bit silly.
A few years ago a local celebrity had to be saved by the helcopter crew volunteering to drive to ashland for emergency surgery during a winter storm commandeering a VFD’s 4wd ambulence, as i guess no other service was available as it was told to me.
This guy still talks to me occasionally and I try to remember the voluteers that saved his life, a big thanks for going beyond the call of duty and risking their lives as the copper was grounded and no one else thought he was worth the risks?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:34 am
Good to see these issues coming out again.
Too often people tend to forget those things when not reminded.
I have been sort of MIA myself lately, and just as soon as I think that I’m going to have
a little free net time, I become busied. (Why Me? Comes to mind…)
I suppose it might be because a few things have been overlooked for too long and a good
cleanup is in order.
Oh Well, At Least I have some help now.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
that was "Chopper" was grounded(due to the storm)
not "copper" I suppose most could figger that out?
August 26th, 2008 at 2:42 am
I have been sort of MIA myself lately, and just as soon as I think that I’m going to have
a little free net time, I become busied. (Why Me? Comes to mind…)
People should stop "should-ing" on each other on here so much
we all do enough should-ing on ourselves me thinks;
IF i can dabble in a brief and rare use of psycobabble for
lack of more universal way to convey my sentiment without the
psycobabble term "should-ding" ( a play on sh**ting on each other if you didn’t know)
August 26th, 2008 at 5:12 am
I was thinking about just going away anyway.
Thought I might sell everything I own and move back to the Mountain.
If this place is civilization then I’d rather be somewhere uncivilized.
Just need to save me up enough to get some plywood and tin for a cabin.
Maybe a few old pained glass windows for day light.
So the internet will have to go, shortly i guess.
I have to get started before I’m too crippled up to build.
I don’t understand what is meant by the "should-ding" or how/if it’s connected to
what I wrote up above about being busy and MIA, but I take your comment in the
best way and don’t recall you ever disrespecting me, or me disrespecting you in
any way, and consider you a friend or maybe a brother (the family kind / not lodge).
You see, I had a dream just a couple of hours ago. And in that dream I was much
older and more crippled up then I am now and was stuck here in Morehead.
Funny to have thoughts about being stuck in your own home town, but Morehead
just isn’t Morehead anymore.
Most of the old folks are gone, all of the places where we used to gather are gone,
no dimestore, no maloney’s, no ben franklin or earl, no western auto or george,
no martindales or parney i guess the building might still stand, no conn’s or sherman,
no fiddler, no bill, and chester gets harassed by those with immature brains.
No places to go to at-least be with those people who are gone in thought, unless
you go to the grave site but then its hard to remember them as they were because
that grave site reminds me of how they are, not how they were.
Now add the fact that Morehead is overrun with dope dealers and addicts who have
taken over, snorting pills up the nose right out in public. Bunch of idiots if you ask me.
So maybe I can find peace on the mountain before I have to die in this rathole that
at least used to be my home town.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
yeow, man baad scene dude, I can’t say I agree 100% but 99.77 maybe
I have a bit of country getaway but I still have dialup and it is slow
but usable most of the time.
IF you have phone you can get the net
and if you is high enough you might get wireless less than say 10 air miles
or you can get two-way or one-way sat based net just bout anywhere.
Since dsl is so sketchy out over 6miles from the c.o. substations from
what I have heard, dsl is only a advantage if you want to talk on regular
local phone and be online at the same time.
I think you need to and ALL older folks need to stay enguaged
in many ways, that is one of the travisties and drawbacks of
modern family and society, that is so much of living memory is
hidden away in homes or retreating to retirment communities and
such. The net allows in a small way for them to stay somewhat
connected to some outside their family and peers.
Any other older folks out there need to consider chiming in
often to plug in perspectives "from back in the 20th"
as was the phrase from "Demolition Man" that seems far too
close to being a future is now flick.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
dial-up here too and can’t load the graphic of the animal video.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:47 am
Actually the DSL is bad.Not as fast as cable but it is more stable.Cable will not be stable until some company replaces all the hacked up lines.My DSL has only went out twice since I had it.Think we’ve had it for 5 years now.Once was because switch box got flooded and second time was when switch was moved up to high school area from ballpark lot.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:48 am
I meant dsl inst bad in first sentence
August 31st, 2008 at 12:59 am
What is the cheapest package you can get as far as getting your cable, internet, phone, together? Are they reliable? I had a DISH for about 2 weeks and they came out and changed it twice and everytime it would drizzle my picture went out. I immediately went back to regular cable. Right now, I’m paying about $75.00 for all three services separately. I don’t care if my computer loads up at lightening speed, etc.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:01 am
I have a good sources that say different, one is a retired phone man who
has dsl about 10-12 miles from town on a side road (similar to me)
and he says it is no better than dial up speeds, (my phone goes out and or has humm in it on many occassions too)
Another source actually worked in a call center for cutomer service
for DSL and witnessed overrides or LIES of how far someone was from
the Central Office nodes and that distance is cruicial for DSL speed and reliability;
A central office is not a office like you might think, it is a phone substation if
you will, where banks of batteries supply power in case of outages and
racks of equipment are housed to make exchange switching happen.
DSL bandwith is critical to being close to one of these something like less
than 5 copper wire miles is more ideal. DSL providers will fudge these distances
to sell someone on DSL and allow them to think they have higher connection
speeds and blame net congestion for slowdowns.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:08 am
http://www.windstream.com/Product.aspx will tell you prices Kat.
My phone had hum in it when I first got my line.I complained enough till they replaced a section of line.
Probably depends on which part of county your in.I am in north part .I have used DSL internet in town and up on 60 east.No problems at either other place.