Dumbest cops in USA: "Standoff comes up empty"

[Sequoia]

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?NewTbl=1&Avis=SR&Dato=20090128&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=128009996&Ref=PH&Item=2&MaxW=590&MaxH=392&Border=0

After 29 hours, 2 rounds of tear gas and countless attempts to contact suspect in arrow shooting, deputies find no one inside Guerneville triplex

SWAT team members stormed a Guerneville home Wednesday, but found the triplex empty.
The forced entry came 29 hours after law enforcement authorities circled the Mill Street residence and twice sent rounds of tear gas and diversion devices into the structure in attempts to make contact with a man thought to be holed up inside.

The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Sean Gallon, 30, is suspected of shooting an arrow into a vehicle, piercing the top and causing minor injury to an occupant.

He remained at large Wednesday night. SWAT teams from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department and the Santa Rosa Police Department took part in the response that kept residents away from their homes for more than a day.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090129/NEWS/901290302/1349?Title=Guerneville_standoff_myster

[Warpy]

1. All my years of being a civil rights and peace creep

in the south and in Boston, I never got gassed.

The first week I was in NM, I lived in a rough area where I could walk to everything and the cops decided to roust a neighbor with CS gas.

WORST asthma attack of my life, even with the doors and windows shut and a towel under the door!

That guy wasn't home, either. Oh, they finally got him and the area became significantly less rough when they did, but still, you'd think they'd have waited for a "You'll never take me alive, copper!" before they shot that stuff off.