Thanks to everyone who responded--my experience does seem to be an abberation. Come to think of it, when our refrigerator was stolen before we moved in, the response time was about an hour for a non-emergency.
--- Pete Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > My girlfriend found a blood trail in front of the > house, and had cops arrive > in about 15 minutes. A couple weeks ago my ladder > was stolen from under my > porch, I had cops in about 30 minutes. When my car > was stolen I had to wait > about two hours. I was happy about the blood trail > response, they actually > followed it to the stabbist, and made an arrest. > These are my own personal > statistics, but the police have done right by me so > far. > > Pete > ---- Heather and Chris Gasda > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Our alarm company called me at 12:04pm to tell me > that > > 2 of our detectors had gone off at 11:49am; they > had > > dispatched the police immediately. As of now, > 1:16pm, > > the police still have not shown up at the house! > > Having called the police to make sure everything > was > > ok, I was told they had been dispatched, but had > not > > come yet. I told them not to bother, as I had > come > > home and found it to be a false alarm, but I was > told > > they had to come once called. Not within a > reasonable > > time frame, apparently! What a great use of > > resources--don't send them when needed, but send > them > > late and unnecessarily. To add insult to injury, I > saw > > 2 patrol cars idly driving about during this time. > > > > Pleeease tell me this is an abberation!! > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! > > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > > > ---- > > You are receiving this because you are subscribed > to the > > list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for > archive information, see > > <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. > > > > > -- check out battle blaster blog > http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3nxh2/index.html > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
