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Posted on November 7 at 1:18 p.m.
I'm in no way for the defacing of the bridge but as a paramedic I can attest to the fact that given time to think may suicidal people change their minds about taking their lives. I have had patients who have tried to commit suicide and so many of them have told me the exact same thing "as soon as I did it, (whatever they did to try and end their life) I realized that all of my problems could be solved and I just had the greatest urge to live."
Posted on November 3 at 12:54 p.m.
darmetsb that would be because you are watching the LA traffic reports not Ventura and Santa Barbara
this is the Ventura/Santa Barbara link
Posted on November 3 at 12:42 p.m.
tegrat - the gunman was actually an anti-war Obama supporter, some reports stated that he had just recently come back from Iraq (unconfirmed as far as I know)
ftobe - I believe it was the bomb squad robot, it was still out roaming the street a good half an hour after the cops had arrested the guy and they blew something up when I was leaving
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Posted on October 20 at 9:36 p.m.
I agree that something needs to be done to prevent suicides from the bridge and so that we (cops, firefighters, medics and search and rescue personnel) wont have to risk our lives either trying to prevent someone from jumping or doing a body recovery from down below but I also love the gorgeous views from the bridge and think that whatever barriers are put up need to be done in a fashion that will not destroy those views. Maybe it is a band-aid solution but the $40 million+ we spend on public mental health programs every year aren't doing that much to prevent suicides either so I guess we can call that a band-aid solution as well!
I agree with mayor Michael Bennett you cannot put a price on human life! Yes we also need to improve the conditions on highways 154 and 66 but that's for another discussion.
Posted on October 17 at 11:24 p.m.
looks good, sounds good, i'm down with this new hospital! hopefully the ED will be a little less claustrophobic in the new one than the current one.
as Holly saying it's ugly well i quite frankly disagree, don't know how often you go to GVCH but i'm there at least a few times a week and damn that building is so it's horrendously UGLY!!! I actually kind of like the new design similar to the new SBCH!
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Posted on October 15 at 11:51 p.m.
glad to see this punk getting some type of justice not what he should have gotten but justice non-the-less. Greenspan give it up the Defense lost!!! don't believe go check out the interview with Atkins that Palminteri did, it's on keyt.com! she was aiming for assault with a deadly weapon yet he was found guilty of manslaughter, this holds a lot longer punishment than assault w/ deadly weapon. It was the defense who had a weak case based on the "it was my evil twin brother with the same name who killed him" defense! The defense's job is so much easier than a prosecutor's, the prosecutor must prove without a reasonable doubt that this person committed this crime while all the defense has to do is show reasonable doubt, which is usually quiet easy when the person is innocent but we all know that Juarez was not innocent and the jury saw it too!
I hope this is at least some consolation for the Linares family knowing that the punk that killed their son is going to be locked up for 14 to 22 years!!! At least a minimum amount of justice has been served for Angel, RIP Angel!
Posted on October 13 at 4:12 p.m.
loonpt what are you on???
I went through the DARE program eons ago and I LOVED it, you're right I may not have learned EVERYTHING about ALL drugs but what I did learn in DARE along with my parents' guidance was enough to teach me not to experiment with drugs. But the most important lesson that I learned through DARE was that cops are people just like the rest of us and that they really do care about us and what happens to us. The thing that stuck most with me in nearly 15 years that it has been since my graduation is that my DARE officer took the time to get to know each and every one of his kids (that's what he called us "my kids") and that was the most important aspect of the whole program.
This year I watched by baby sister go through the DARE program and she loved it as much as I did when I was a kid, I enjoyed hearing her talk on how nice Deputy Powers is and how he takes the time to show the kids that he cares about them. I believe that this is what DARE is really all about, letting kids know that cops care, that they are not unfeeling monsters as some adults would have the children in their lives believe and that they are there for the kids when they need them.
Good job Sheriff Brown for bringing this vital program back to our kids!
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Posted on October 8 at 12:24 p.m.
this is so heart-wrenching, I see Alzheimer's patient's on a regular basis. it is so heart-breaking to see the spouse watch in agony as the person s/he has spent the last half-century with not recognize them. I sympathize with the Wheeler family. I think that the judge and prosecutor need to have some mercy on a man who wanted to end his wife's suffering. It wont do anyone any good to put this 84 year-old man in jail!
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Posted on October 1 at 3:06 p.m.
Actually bigyoonit, livingsb and AShaw are correct. I have worked in public service in Santa Barbara for almost a decade, I see the SB that most SB residents don’t realize exists and yet up until 2 years ago we were never seeing this kind of thing, yes we saw stabbings occasionally but most were domestic violence related, not gang; shootings were what we heard of happening in LA but were never seen in SB. I grew up and lived in this same neighborhood up until 3 years ago, and never saw this kind of thing happen before. Yeah there were fights and drunken brawls but stabbings – never saw one when I lived there for almost 20 years, and shootings – never. The cops have their hands extremely tightly handcuffed behind their backs and until the bosses with the keys untighten them or take them off completely we aren’t going to see a lot of change in the way of crime PREVENTION here. We all know that the federal government failed on more levels than we can count but that doesn’t mean that the local police have to fail.
And BmBm, when my family immigrated to the US, legally, we were broke. We had no money, my parents didn’t speak English and we are not Mexicans so no going around that path of getting a job. We started with nothing and yet somehow my parents made it, they worked 2 or 3 jobs each, making minimum wage and raising 5 kids, and on top of that went to night school to learn English, (how many Mexicans legal or otherwise live in the US for decades and still know not a word of English?) to give us a better opportunity, they found ways to put a roof over our heads and food on the table, and they helped pay for 5 college tuitions. So are economics to blame I don’t think so, my family had everything going against us yet we strived to get out of our situation and make something of ourselves because we owed that to ourselves and to the country and the people that opened up their home to us. Most Mexicans think it is their God-given right to live here and that Americans are just supposed to hand everything to them on a platter, well wake up and smell the f**king roses because it is not your f**king right, no one has to give you anything. It's up to you to make a better life for yourself, it's up to you to get yourself out of the cards that you were dealt.
My solution, lock the parents up right along side their kids maybe than the parents will finally start caring about their freaken kids and what they are doing with their lives.
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