>> ^swampgirl:
No costumes for myself.. but I'm dressing one of my dogs (Nami) up as a witch.
Sam doesn't enjoy costumes or trick or treaters hitting the doorbell every 5 min. He'll be spending the evening upstairs

Sam is my favorite 'cause he's grumpy like me...

No costumes for myself.. but I'm dressing one of my dogs (Nami) up as a witch.

Sam doesn't enjoy costumes or trick or treaters hitting the doorbell every 5 min. He'll be spending the evening upstairs

In reply to this comment by imstellar28:

I would love to see you test that theory out--that you can use lethal force to stop someone from destroying your property. I'll be sure to send you letters while you're on the inside (unless you happen to live in Texas, in which case you can shoot people--even unarmed people--who are destroying your neighbors' property and get off scott-free).

Only the paranoid survive.

Only someone truly paranoid would believe that. A police officer shooting random animals on your property is a threat. A police officer shooting your charging dog--regardless of the dog's intent (which the officer can't possibly know)--isn't a threat to anyone and you're just escalating the situation by going out there with a gun. So you point the gun at the cop and say "drop your weapon"? He swings towards you and you fire. Guess what, you missed and now you're dead--over a dog. Or you hit him. Except he's wearing body armor and you're not. Again you're dead--over a dog. Or you hit him and kill him--and are brought up on murder charges (cop murder, no less). Even if you beat the charges you're going to do jail-time while the trial is in progress and have a significant disruption to your life, never mind the legal costs and the psychological trauma of knowing you killed someone over a dog.

You really want to die or go to jail for your dog? That's not going to bring him back. You're safe inside your house. You can call 911 and refuse to answer the door if the cop comes and rings the doorbell. If he starts breaking in THEN shoot him, fine. But going all "wild west" out the front door is just asking for you to end up either going jail or the morgue.

I hate to burst the "private property" argument bubble, but trespassing is only a crime in most states if you have signs posted clearly delineating the borders of your property. See:
http://www.enotes.com/everyday-law-encyclopedia/trespassing which clearly states that the trespassing law for Oklahoma requires signs posted every 200 feet and at the entrances and corners.

As for the warrant, as others have mentioned, a cop only needs a warrant to conduct a search. It's not required for him to come up and ring your doorbell to ask for directions.

So to sum up, the cop is not trespassing, nor does he need a warrant. Considering that according to Oklahoma gun laws almost anyone can get a carry and conceal permit so long as they aren't felons, this could have happened to anybody who happened to be carrying when the dog charged.

Still, that's not the best way to remedy the situation.

He should act like a civilized human being and put it in her mailbox. (Or at least set it on fire and ring the doorbell.)

What was it that was floating behind Ms. South Carolina? By the way she looked pretty hot in this video, but I'm guessing still dumb as a doorbell.

People live in the moon. Sooner or later they'll have to answer the doorbell. Go moon!

From a cube to an enclosed office just for going on a 3week vacation. Now all those guys who pranked him have to ring the doorbell to talk to him.

That was awesome...that's what Halloween's all about. I love the psychological aspects of the setup; the music and lights stopping at the same time, the different doorbell chimes, A+++!

(Did I just give an eBay feedback??)

There is an ugly scene in "Bad Boys II" that I want to tell you about. A cop played by Martin Lawrence is alarmed that his 15-year-old daughter is going out on her first date. We see the girl, pretty and hopeful in her new dress, being fussed over by her mother. The doorbell rings, and Lawrence opens it to confront her date, a nervous 15-year-old boy, tall and thin, neatly dressed.

Marcus and his partner (Will Smith) intimidate the boy without mercy. He is threatened with the unspeakable if he lays a hand on the girl. They demand to know if he is a virgin. They slap him with the N-word. At one point a gun is pulled on him. "Ever had sex with a man?" Smith asks. Then with a leer: "Want to?" The boy is terrified.

The needless cruelty of this scene took me out of the movie and into the minds of its makers. What were they thinking? Have they so lost touch with human nature that they think audiences will like this scene? Do they think it's funny? Did the actors voice any objections? It's the job of the producer to keep a film on track; did Jerry Bruckheimer notice anything distasteful? Or is it possible that everyone connected with the film has become so desensitized by the relentless cynical aggression of movies like this that the scene passed without comment?

---Roger Ebert; Bad Boys II review July 18, 2003

Totally true! I love the internets!...I just had a A23 12V batt give up the ghost (wireless doorbell remote) and this thing had the original factory gray market battery in it....peel back the paper ... and 8 LR932 batts inside!

Ivory tower chickenhawk neocon. Watch him squirm:

During a C-SPAN appearance this morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol was confronted by a military wife living in Ft. Hood, TX, who called in to criticize him for “pushing the war.”

The woman explained the incredible stress of having her husband deployed in Iraq:

I’m sure when your head hits the pillow you have a luxury of dreaming about anything that your mind will allow you to dream about… I sleep with the phone under the pillow. My kids — if someone rings the doorbell, instead of normal kids they freeze. And they’re in elementary school. You all don’t understand. We are military people but we are people, too. And the stress that we are under is tremendous.

While she spoke, Kristol appeared uncomfortable, looking downward and scratching markings into a piece of paper.