911: ...you can defend your property if you need to...

[JDoe]

http://video.ap.org/?f=NJMOR&pid=GApnNR5EtGlwCHHV7UFc3QQcgrzhHLjC

Here is the YouTube of it



Looks like Oklahoma has a different attitude and laws regarding people protecting themselves...

911 Operator: County 13 is advising that you can go ahead and defend your property if you need to...

Home owner: I don't want to kill this man but I'll kill him graveyard dead Mam.

911 Operator: I understand.

I wonder how the conversation would have gone in California?

[eljBRD]

I can only Imagine...the intruder would have been treated as if he was the homeowner...

[jdberger]

Not true. Even in California there isn't any duty to retreat if you're in your own home.

And she wasn't "defending her property". She was defending her life.

[CitaDeL]

Home owner: Someone's breaking into my house.

911 Operator: Police are on their way.

Home owner: I have a shotgun.

911 Operator: Put the weapon down. You wouldnt want to injure them, you could get sued. Police are on their way.

Home owner: You're right- I'd better aim high- (click - dial tone)

The exchange above is only a dramatization- not a suggestion.

[sideshowhr]

wicked. don't hear that stuff too often.

although i would have done one thing differently... at least a 'stop or i'll shoot'.

[M. Sage]

Wow, that was a powerful video. I felt very sorry for the homeowner who had to pull the trigger, she was very broken up about what she'd just done.

Kudos to the 911 operator for doing the right thing and being supportive in a stressful situation!

[Californio]

Police are 30 minutes away where my buddy lives in OK, that's the way they have do it.

[Turo]

"It's a shotgun, It's large."
Best answer ever.

I feel bad for her and how shaken up she was about it though, I hope I never have to go through that.

It seems odd that the first thing the dispatcher asked was if she had a gun. Maybe that just seems odd to me as a deprived CA-ian. I have a feeling that if the same thing took place here, the first question asked would be more like

"Ma'am, do you have a box you can lock yourself in? Maybe he won't look in it and leave you alone."

[M. Sage]

Yeah, it only seems odd because you're used to CA. There are still some places where the authorities actually like it when you're armed and capable of taking care of yourself.

If nothing else, it means less risk for themselves; you shoot it out with the bad guys, and they simply show up with a mop.

[wilit]

That is the perfect video to show any person who asks, "Why do you need a gun?" Because a 57 year old woman saved her own life when the police were minutes away.

[510dat]

1 minute, 27 seconds from the beginning of the call to the shot, and that lady had a lot of warning.

[Lyte-]

video didn't play for me

[JDoe]

video didn't play for me

Try this...

[CCWFacts]

That's a good call. She says, repeatedly, "I don't want to have to kill him", she shows sympathy for him "he's an old man", and afterwards she expresses awful remorse about what happened (she says a prayer for him, herself, or both).

That's the kind of 911 call that sounds good when a DA is evaluating the situation.

Compare that call with the Joe Horn 911 call...

[Arteel]

You guys need to get out of CA more often

My family got pulled over in Montana one time and didn't have our hands visible. Police walked up with guns drawn because its normal for folks to be carrying their guns.