Shooting guns on NYE

[CPDlife4ME]

Gun restrictions stop law-abiding people from having guns, but only inconvenience criminals, who get and use guns illegally.

bingo +1

[magicman]

We had so many shots fired calls that we didn't even respond. We went to a dv and came out to do the paper work and shots were being fired AT US. I HEARD one go past me. My partner and I took off running towards the shots and more shots came. We got to the apartment where they came from. Long story short..... nobody knew nothin'. We charged everyone with somethin'. I won't go into the whole thing but it pissed me off with. This is the first time in 15 years I haven't kissed my wife at midnight. Thank God I was able to come home to her and my kids. I really did think that was going to be the end. fu%^ing a@@ hats!

[TXCharlie]

That's insane... I guess I insulted dumb people by calling them dumb.

[magicman]

That's insane... I guess I insulted dumb people by calling them dumb.

Please don't insult the dumb people. They don't deserve it. They're so above the people I was around on NYE. So glad to go back to my regular assignment tonight. Then I'll just be dealing with the crackheads. :D They're too stoned to shoot at me.

[Sheriff]

Shooting guns on New Year's Eve.... here's a good one. :eek:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?se...cal&id=4900130

(1/02/07 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - A Houston woman's house literally became a target for gun-play on New Year's Eve. But the man accused of pulling the trigger is a Houston police officer.

Investigators say Ricardo Pineda fired two guns at a New Year's party at a home in southwest Harris County.

Gunfire could be heard across the Houston area as residents rang in the New Year.

"I heard the noise, and I looked and I saw a couple of guys," said homeowner Huyen Nguyen.

She heard the gunfire and she says her husband saw it. He was in the laundry room hanging up a jacket when the bullets narrowly missed him.

Nguyen said, "He hung it up, and then he saw the bullet go over him."

Two rounds went through Nguyen's garage door, through the laundry room door and into the laundry room. Her three young children were all nearby.

Investigators say the holes left behind prove the guns were pointed right at the house.

Lt. John Martin with the Harris County Sheriff's Office said, "It appears in this case that they were fired pretty much level. It was not a case of being fired up into the air and then they came back down."

Sheriff's detectives say eyewitnesses saw Pineda firing the guns from outside a home during the party. Pineda is a Houston police officer.

Nguyen called 911 when she realized what was happening. When deputies arrived, they found Pineda, wearing his officer's badge around his neck, and a jacket with the word police on the back.

"He had been drinking," asserted Lt. Martin. "I don't know exactly what his level of intoxication was."

Pineda was arrested on suspicion of deadly conduct. His car was towed, and inside it investigators found two weapons -- a handgun and a rifle -- both recently fired.

Nguyen can't believe someone entrusted with the public's safety could do something that clearly could be so dangerous.

"It's sobering," she said. "Because I think police know the rules and know the law, so they cannot do that. It's so dangerous."

Pineda has posted $30,000 bond and is out of custody. He is expected to appear in court on Wednesday. He has been suspended with pay by the Houston Police Department pending the outcome of both the criminal and an internal investigation. Investigators cannot say if the weapons used were Pineda's service weapons.

[TXCharlie]

Move this to the Jobs section - New opening in HPD!!! :D

[Sheriff]

Move this to the Jobs section - New opening in HPD!!! :D

I think you're right. It's so sad what alcohol does to people. :eek:

[ChrisG]

a great example:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT

[Whitebear]

I am working in a native community. my police force is coering 14 different communities and on NYE everyb ody who have a riffle in town fire shots in the sky to make the party. never someone have been injured by projectils who were falling down.....

IMO i think it's stupid to do that anyway, but we have to deal with he cultural difference..

[Jenna2006]

everyb ody who have a riffle in town fire shots in the sky to make the party. never someone have been injured by projectils who were falling down.....

How do they manage that? :confused: