Plan to ax Conn. trooper mandate raises concerns
May 19, 2012 | But while state police were en route, her husband bludgeoned her to death in front of their 5-year-old son with a piece of wood and a fireplace poker. The vicious attack was the driving force behind a law that mandated state police to have a minimum of 1,248 troopers in hopes of decreasing response times. After her sister was murdered in Chaplin in 1998, when the nearest state trooper 18 minutes away, Hannah Williamson-Coon was able to take some solace in the fact that Connecticut officials later passed a law aimed at boosting patrols. The state had about 970 troopers at the time. Malloy is pushing the legislature to approve a bill that would eliminate the minimum staffing requirement, saying it's rarely been met, is arbitrary and crime is at a 44-year-low in the state. Her husband was acquitted by reason of insanity and remains committed to a state psychiatric hospital. HARTFORD, Conn. That January day, a pregnant Heather Messenger called 911.
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When I poke myself in the eye with this glowing hot fireplace poker, I have a lot of pain. Any suggesions?
Jun 27, 2007 by AngryChair
poke it in further. there's a place in your brain, that if you poke... it'll stop hurting.
My neighbor pushed me a little too far last night and has been impaled with my fireplace poker........?
May 19, 9675 by Roxx rises again
Survey, call the cops and claim self-defense or dispose of the body, and how?
lol morbid
call the cops & turn yourself in (it's not that bad in the mental hospitals)