JJB531

Bull,
I would like to address your discontent with my questioning of the sources another poster now that I am back at my computer. Regardless if you think I was avoiding answering your questions, the simple fact is that it would have taken me 2 hours to send a well thought out reply from my cell phone. Since I am now back at my computer, I am more then happy to respond to your questions and assertions.
First I would like to address your question of "who cares". Personally, as a law enforcement officer, I care. This is an issue that is related to my line of employment, along with INIT915, and several other members of the law enforcement community, and is an issue that is worth discussing amongst us law enforcement professionals. This was not your "run of the mill" jumper, this was an individual who was armed and required a conducted energy device to be utilized to bring them into custody. A civilian engaging in bringing this person into custody raises questions of scene control by the law enforcement officers on scene, and for us is worth discussing. INIT put it very well, and I was going to ask the same question of you, but he beat me to it. If a poster made a claim that a bunch of firemen were standing around while a civilian was fighting a fire with a garden hose, I would expect a member of the Fire Service here to question the validity of this claim. Day after day, I read threads here on EMTBravo that are Fire Service related, where issues are raised and questions are asked about things that I personally don't care about and seem trivial to me simply because I'm not in the Fire Service. So should I start questioning "who cares" every time I read a Fire Service related matter that seems trivial to me? Of course not, what's not important to me may be an important issue to someone else for reasons that I can't understand because it doesn't pertain to me or my line of work. While EMTBravo is "fire service heavy", there are law enforcement officers on this site who enjoy discussing law enforcement issues, and dispelling some of the rumors and myths associated with law enforcement, since it's amazing how everyone is an expert when it comes to police work. In fact, I was able to dispel one rumor based on my questioning of the handcuffing that was brought up by another poster, and educate that person on proper police tactics and procedures when it comes to handcuffing EDP's. If you ask me, just for that reason alone, my questioning of the original claims was well worth it then.
Perhaps I could ask why you care that I have taken a peaked interest in the claims made by another poster, claims that still have been ignored by the original poster? At no time did I make any statements, claims, or assumptions as to who handcuffed this individual. I clearly stated in my initial post that I found it to be suspect, given the circumstances, that a civilian Thruway Authority worker handcuffed an individual who was armed with an edged weapon and required Troopers to deploy a conducted energy device. My uncertainty with the validity of the original statement is based on my experience, as I would have found it uncommon for a law enforcement officer to permit a civilian to handcuff an armed individual. Does it happen? Sure it does, and generally when it does happen it happens under extreme circumstances which are worth discussing because there are things to be learned from the incident. As an LEO, we can then study the tactics utilized, the efficiency of the less lethal device utilized, how well the scene was controlled by the LEO's who responded. But there's no point to starting a discussion when the initial information provided that could raise all of these questions is false. So you can ask me all you like what factual proof I have to my claims, but I haven't made any claims. I merely questioned, along with INIT915, the validity of the statement made by another poster, and have inferred from the lack of response to our questions, that the information provided was not accurate. As I stated before, if this information was factually correct, then the issue of scene control arises and is something that is worth discussing. But before we get into a entire discussion based on incorrect information, I wanted to get the real story, and not just a "shot in the dark" assumption. If I had proof or factual documentation, then I would have provided my sources and informed the original poster that they were wrong and the Troopers handcuffed this individual. Where in any of my posts did I say that the Troopers were the one's who applied the handcuffs? To infer that I need some kind of concrete proof to question claims made by someone else is a bit silly. IMHO, I feel my experience, as well as the experience of several other of our knowledgeable and well educated professionals in their respective emergency service field, is all the "proof" they need to able to question someones claims that may seem inaccurate or false.
I hope I answered your questions and addressed your concerns. If you require any further information, please feel free to PM me.
Joe

Bull,
I would like to address your discontent with my questioning of the sources another poster now that I am back at my computer. Regardless if you think I was avoiding answering your questions, the simple fact is that it would have taken me 2 hours to send a well thought out reply from my cell phone. Since I am now back at my computer, I am more then happy to respond to your questions and assertions.
First I would like to address your question of "who cares". Personally, as a law enforcement officer, I care. This is an issue that is related to my line of employment, along with INIT915, and several other members of the law enforcement community, and is an issue that is worth discussing amongst us law enforcement professionals. This was not your "run of the mill" jumper, this was an individual who was armed and required a conducted energy device to be utilized to bring them into custody. A civilian engaging in bringing this person into custody raises questions of scene control by the law enforcement officers on scene, and for us is worth discussing. INIT put it very well, and I was going to ask the same question of you, but he beat me to it. If a poster made a claim that a bunch of firemen were standing around while a civilian was fighting a fire with a garden hose, I would expect a member of the Fire Service here to question the validity of this claim. Day after day, I read threads here on EMTBravo that are Fire Service related, where issues are raised and questions are asked about things that I personally don't care about and seem trivial to me simply because I'm not in the Fire Service. So should I start questioning "who cares" every time I read a Fire Service related matter that seems trivial to me? Of course not, what's not important to me may be an important issue to someone else for reasons that I can't understand because it doesn't pertain to me or my line of work. While EMTBravo is "fire service heavy", there are law enforcement officers on this site who enjoy discussing law enforcement issues, and dispelling some of the rumors and myths associated with law enforcement, since it's amazing how everyone is an expert when it comes to police work. In fact, I was able to dispel one rumor based on my questioning of the handcuffing that was brought up by another poster, and educate that person on proper police tactics and procedures when it comes to handcuffing EDP's. If you ask me, just for that reason alone, my questioning of the original claims was well worth it then.
Perhaps I could ask why you care that I have taken a peaked interest in the claims made by another poster, claims that still have been ignored by the original poster? At no time did I make any statements, claims, or assumptions as to who handcuffed this individual. I clearly stated in my initial post that I found it to be suspect, given the circumstances, that a civilian Thruway Authority worker handcuffed an individual who was armed with an edged weapon and required Troopers to deploy a conducted energy device. My uncertainty with the validity of the original statement is based on my experience, as I would have found it uncommon for a law enforcement officer to permit a civilian to handcuff an armed individual. Does it happen? Sure it does, and generally when it does happen it happens under extreme circumstances which are worth discussing because there are things to be learned from the incident. As an LEO, we can then study the tactics utilized, the efficiency of the less lethal device utilized, how well the scene was controlled by the LEO's who responded. But there's no point to starting a discussion when the initial information provided that could raise all of these questions is false. So you can ask me all you like what factual proof I have to my claims, but I haven't made any claims. I merely questioned, along with INIT915, the validity of the statement made by another poster, and have inferred from the lack of response to our questions, that the information provided was not accurate. As I stated before, if this information was factually correct, then the issue of scene control arises and is something that is worth discussing. But before we get into a entire discussion based on incorrect information, I wanted to get the real story, and not just a "shot in the dark" assumption. If I had proof or factual documentation, then I would have provided my sources and informed the original poster that they were wrong and the Troopers handcuffed this individual. Where in any of my posts did I say that the Troopers were the one's who applied the handcuffs? To infer that I need some kind of concrete proof to question claims made by someone else is a bit silly. IMHO, I feel my experience, as well as the experience of several other of our knowledgeable and well educated professionals in their respective emergency service field, is all the "proof" they need to able to question someones claims that may seem inaccurate or false.
I hope I answered your questions and addressed your concerns. If you require any further information, please feel free to PM me.
Joe

Well, guess were at an impasse then. I remain of the belief that if you say something, don't be afraid of someone asking you to back it up. JJB531 never made any blanket statements. He merely pointed out that an ascertain made by another poster didn't seem to hold water. And he's right.
Just imagine someone implying they saw a whole bunch of guys on your job standing around at a scene, leaving the firefighting to some civilian standing there with a garden hose. You'd probably be curious and ask him to support it, no?

EMTBravo Members,
Myself and the members of the staff have been recently discussing the possibility of endeavoring to create an online magazine with content that is provided by you, the members!
EMTBravo is about sharing knowledge, information, and individual professional development. Authoring articles for trade magazines and professional publications is an excellent way to advance one's career as a professional emergency service provider, a great addition to your resume, and just another way to "get your name out there" amongst your peers, plus it gives you an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with other emergency service providers in a magazine style format.
We are currently seeking article submissions from the EMTBravo community. Articles can be on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Police, Fire, EMS, OEM and other emergency service fields. We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience. You do not need to be an "EMTBravo guru" to write an article for EMTBravo, but must be mature, knowledgeable, and professional in the delivery of your content. This includes proper spelling and grammar, and taking the time to deliver a well thought out and informative article that the members will enjoy reading.
Articles should contain some degree of substance to them, and be at least one typewritten page in length. I don't want to place a limit on how long your article can be, but please be reasonable with your submissions, it's an article, not a novel! Once we have collected enough content, reviewed it, gathered additional information, we are going to deliver this magazine to the membership in an online viewable format, where it will be easily accessed by the membership. As I previously mentioned, we are looking for writers from all walks of Emergency Services, from Youth Group/Junior Corps members to seasoned Fire/Police/EMS veterans. Articles you submit should reflect on your personal experience. For example, if you are a Junior Corps member, consider writing an article about Training Ideas for Junior Corps, or Recruitment for Junior Corps. I wouldn't suggest writing an article on Technical Rescue as a Junior Corps member. We are currently looking to do a quarterly publishing based on the amount of content we receive from YOU!
Articles should be written in Word Format, and please include a brief Bio along with your article to including your field, years of experience, and any other pertinent information you would like to include. I will continually post additional information, including an email address to submit your articles.
If anyone has any questions and/or legitimate, constructive ideas for this endeavor, please feel free to PM me or post them in this thread.
Thank you for your interest, now get writing!
Joseph Bucchignano
JJB531

As stated before, it's not a matter of who cuffed the guy, it's a matter of pointing out and correcting false information that was disseminated through non-factual statements that had no legitimate source to back up the claim. As a law enforcement officer, I have a peaked interest in the original statement about who cuffed the guy.

I believe INIT915 answered your question regarding the number of MRT Troopers working. A full time unit, with the training and knowledge to handle this type of incident, out of Stewart with a 20 minute ETA to the scene. Not too shabby if you ask me. Yes the NYPD has experience in these type of incidents, but plain and simple has enough of their own work with protestors right now to be tasked with handling someone elses problem. While I have no doubt the members of the NYPD would have been more then willing to come and assist with this type of incident, the State Police MRT Troopers are hightly trained, hightly motivated, highly competent, and highly capable of handling this type of situation that was occurring in their own jurisdiction, and if they needed the help from an outside agency, they would have called for it.
Correct the Thruway Authority workers have made grabs from the bridge before, and they're comfortable working at heights, and are familiar with the architecture of the bridge itself, along with the dangers associated with it. But I highly doubt many of these Transit Authority workers are trained, experienced, or comfortable in dealing with an EDP who is now armed with an edged weapon. This is where I have a slightly difficult time believing that a civilian Thruway Authority worker jumped in the middle of several troopers who just tased an EDP who was in possession of an edged weapon and handcuffed this individual.

As stated before, it's not a matter of who cuffed the guy, it's a matter of pointing out and correcting false information that was disseminated through non-factual statements that had no legitimate source to back up the claim. As a law enforcement officer, I have a peaked interest in the original statement about who cuffed the guy.

The Tappan Zee Bridge is New York State Police jurisdiction, not NYPD, not Greenburgh. NYPD should not have to deplete their resources in the Bronx/Manhattan to handle a job that can be obviously handled by the State Police in their own jurisdiction. How many Tech Rescue members of Greenburgh PD were working the day tour today? How many would have to be called in from home to handle this job? Would there be any time saving benefit to having Tech Rescue trained Police Officers from Greenburgh first drive in from their homes to GPD HQ, suit up, and drive to the Tappan Zee Bridge, or just fly in on-duty MRT Troopers to deal with a situation in their jurisdiction?

As stated before, it's not a matter of who cuffed the guy, it's a matter of pointing out and correcting false information that was disseminated through non-factual statements that had no legitimate source to back up the claim. As a law enforcement officer, I have a peaked interest in the original statement about who cuffed the guy.

Great! Now I feel like all the UC's I've been part of were a waste of my time!

EMTBravo Members,
Myself and the members of the staff have been recently discussing the possibility of endeavoring to create an online magazine with content that is provided by you, the members!
EMTBravo is about sharing knowledge, information, and individual professional development. Authoring articles for trade magazines and professional publications is an excellent way to advance one's career as a professional emergency service provider, a great addition to your resume, and just another way to "get your name out there" amongst your peers, plus it gives you an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with other emergency service providers in a magazine style format.
We are currently seeking article submissions from the EMTBravo community. Articles can be on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Police, Fire, EMS, OEM and other emergency service fields. We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience. You do not need to be an "EMTBravo guru" to write an article for EMTBravo, but must be mature, knowledgeable, and professional in the delivery of your content. This includes proper spelling and grammar, and taking the time to deliver a well thought out and informative article that the members will enjoy reading.
Articles should contain some degree of substance to them, and be at least one typewritten page in length. I don't want to place a limit on how long your article can be, but please be reasonable with your submissions, it's an article, not a novel! Once we have collected enough content, reviewed it, gathered additional information, we are going to deliver this magazine to the membership in an online viewable format, where it will be easily accessed by the membership. As I previously mentioned, we are looking for writers from all walks of Emergency Services, from Youth Group/Junior Corps members to seasoned Fire/Police/EMS veterans. Articles you submit should reflect on your personal experience. For example, if you are a Junior Corps member, consider writing an article about Training Ideas for Junior Corps, or Recruitment for Junior Corps. I wouldn't suggest writing an article on Technical Rescue as a Junior Corps member. We are currently looking to do a quarterly publishing based on the amount of content we receive from YOU!
Articles should be written in Word Format, and please include a brief Bio along with your article to including your field, years of experience, and any other pertinent information you would like to include. I will continually post additional information, including an email address to submit your articles.
If anyone has any questions and/or legitimate, constructive ideas for this endeavor, please feel free to PM me or post them in this thread.
Thank you for your interest, now get writing!
Joseph Bucchignano
JJB531

EMTBravo Members,
Myself and the members of the staff have been recently discussing the possibility of endeavoring to create an online magazine with content that is provided by you, the members!
EMTBravo is about sharing knowledge, information, and individual professional development. Authoring articles for trade magazines and professional publications is an excellent way to advance one's career as a professional emergency service provider, a great addition to your resume, and just another way to "get your name out there" amongst your peers, plus it gives you an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with other emergency service providers in a magazine style format.
We are currently seeking article submissions from the EMTBravo community. Articles can be on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Police, Fire, EMS, OEM and other emergency service fields. We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience. You do not need to be an "EMTBravo guru" to write an article for EMTBravo, but must be mature, knowledgeable, and professional in the delivery of your content. This includes proper spelling and grammar, and taking the time to deliver a well thought out and informative article that the members will enjoy reading.
Articles should contain some degree of substance to them, and be at least one typewritten page in length. I don't want to place a limit on how long your article can be, but please be reasonable with your submissions, it's an article, not a novel! Once we have collected enough content, reviewed it, gathered additional information, we are going to deliver this magazine to the membership in an online viewable format, where it will be easily accessed by the membership. As I previously mentioned, we are looking for writers from all walks of Emergency Services, from Youth Group/Junior Corps members to seasoned Fire/Police/EMS veterans. Articles you submit should reflect on your personal experience. For example, if you are a Junior Corps member, consider writing an article about Training Ideas for Junior Corps, or Recruitment for Junior Corps. I wouldn't suggest writing an article on Technical Rescue as a Junior Corps member. We are currently looking to do a quarterly publishing based on the amount of content we receive from YOU!
Articles should be written in Word Format, and please include a brief Bio along with your article to including your field, years of experience, and any other pertinent information you would like to include. I will continually post additional information, including an email address to submit your articles.
If anyone has any questions and/or legitimate, constructive ideas for this endeavor, please feel free to PM me or post them in this thread.
Thank you for your interest, now get writing!
Joseph Bucchignano
JJB531

Thank you for the link, but I read the lohud article when it was originally written. It really doesn't answer any questions I have, because I already know the answer to the questions that have posed to the original poster. This is more about clarifying inaccurate information being distributed without any evidence or proof of claims made that civilian workers are out there handcuffing armed EDP's post-deployment of a conducted energy device.
EDP's who go to the hospital are routinely handcuffed by law enforcement, especially when they have shown a propensity for violence or their actions have led law enforcement to take more aggressive measures of the force continuum to bring them into custody. New York State Mental Health Law empowers Law Enforcement Officers to restrain (handcuff) individuals who have a propensity of violence or are likely to cause harm to themselves or others. Since this individual clearly fit that category, the fact that this individual went to the hospital for evaluation doesn't automatically negate him from being handcuffed.

EMTBravo Members,
Myself and the members of the staff have been recently discussing the possibility of endeavoring to create an online magazine with content that is provided by you, the members!
EMTBravo is about sharing knowledge, information, and individual professional development. Authoring articles for trade magazines and professional publications is an excellent way to advance one's career as a professional emergency service provider, a great addition to your resume, and just another way to "get your name out there" amongst your peers, plus it gives you an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with other emergency service providers in a magazine style format.
We are currently seeking article submissions from the EMTBravo community. Articles can be on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Police, Fire, EMS, OEM and other emergency service fields. We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience. You do not need to be an "EMTBravo guru" to write an article for EMTBravo, but must be mature, knowledgeable, and professional in the delivery of your content. This includes proper spelling and grammar, and taking the time to deliver a well thought out and informative article that the members will enjoy reading.
Articles should contain some degree of substance to them, and be at least one typewritten page in length. I don't want to place a limit on how long your article can be, but please be reasonable with your submissions, it's an article, not a novel! Once we have collected enough content, reviewed it, gathered additional information, we are going to deliver this magazine to the membership in an online viewable format, where it will be easily accessed by the membership. As I previously mentioned, we are looking for writers from all walks of Emergency Services, from Youth Group/Junior Corps members to seasoned Fire/Police/EMS veterans. Articles you submit should reflect on your personal experience. For example, if you are a Junior Corps member, consider writing an article about Training Ideas for Junior Corps, or Recruitment for Junior Corps. I wouldn't suggest writing an article on Technical Rescue as a Junior Corps member. We are currently looking to do a quarterly publishing based on the amount of content we receive from YOU!
Articles should be written in Word Format, and please include a brief Bio along with your article to including your field, years of experience, and any other pertinent information you would like to include. I will continually post additional information, including an email address to submit your articles.
If anyone has any questions and/or legitimate, constructive ideas for this endeavor, please feel free to PM me or post them in this thread.
Thank you for your interest, now get writing!
Joseph Bucchignano
JJB531

Sounds like a good idea. I am not criticizing you, because I like the idea, so please don't take what I'm about to say the wrong way because I want to clarify one point. I know there is an abundance of career and volunteer firefighters here on EMTBravo, but the idea of this magazine is to not focus on one single emergency service field, but to incorporate Law Enforcement and EMS with an even distribution of content across the board. I want to stay away from this magazine being solely a Fire related, EMS related, or LE related venue, but rather contain an equal share of content.

EMTBravo Members,
Myself and the members of the staff have been recently discussing the possibility of endeavoring to create an online magazine with content that is provided by you, the members!
EMTBravo is about sharing knowledge, information, and individual professional development. Authoring articles for trade magazines and professional publications is an excellent way to advance one's career as a professional emergency service provider, a great addition to your resume, and just another way to "get your name out there" amongst your peers, plus it gives you an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with other emergency service providers in a magazine style format.
We are currently seeking article submissions from the EMTBravo community. Articles can be on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Police, Fire, EMS, OEM and other emergency service fields. We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience. You do not need to be an "EMTBravo guru" to write an article for EMTBravo, but must be mature, knowledgeable, and professional in the delivery of your content. This includes proper spelling and grammar, and taking the time to deliver a well thought out and informative article that the members will enjoy reading.
Articles should contain some degree of substance to them, and be at least one typewritten page in length. I don't want to place a limit on how long your article can be, but please be reasonable with your submissions, it's an article, not a novel! Once we have collected enough content, reviewed it, gathered additional information, we are going to deliver this magazine to the membership in an online viewable format, where it will be easily accessed by the membership. As I previously mentioned, we are looking for writers from all walks of Emergency Services, from Youth Group/Junior Corps members to seasoned Fire/Police/EMS veterans. Articles you submit should reflect on your personal experience. For example, if you are a Junior Corps member, consider writing an article about Training Ideas for Junior Corps, or Recruitment for Junior Corps. I wouldn't suggest writing an article on Technical Rescue as a Junior Corps member. We are currently looking to do a quarterly publishing based on the amount of content we receive from YOU!
Articles should be written in Word Format, and please include a brief Bio along with your article to including your field, years of experience, and any other pertinent information you would like to include. I will continually post additional information, including an email address to submit your articles.
If anyone has any questions and/or legitimate, constructive ideas for this endeavor, please feel free to PM me or post them in this thread.
Thank you for your interest, now get writing!
Joseph Bucchignano
JJB531

EMTBravo Members,
Myself and the members of the staff have been recently discussing the possibility of endeavoring to create an online magazine with content that is provided by you, the members!
EMTBravo is about sharing knowledge, information, and individual professional development. Authoring articles for trade magazines and professional publications is an excellent way to advance one's career as a professional emergency service provider, a great addition to your resume, and just another way to "get your name out there" amongst your peers, plus it gives you an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with other emergency service providers in a magazine style format.
We are currently seeking article submissions from the EMTBravo community. Articles can be on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Police, Fire, EMS, OEM and other emergency service fields. We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience. You do not need to be an "EMTBravo guru" to write an article for EMTBravo, but must be mature, knowledgeable, and professional in the delivery of your content. This includes proper spelling and grammar, and taking the time to deliver a well thought out and informative article that the members will enjoy reading.
Articles should contain some degree of substance to them, and be at least one typewritten page in length. I don't want to place a limit on how long your article can be, but please be reasonable with your submissions, it's an article, not a novel! Once we have collected enough content, reviewed it, gathered additional information, we are going to deliver this magazine to the membership in an online viewable format, where it will be easily accessed by the membership. As I previously mentioned, we are looking for writers from all walks of Emergency Services, from Youth Group/Junior Corps members to seasoned Fire/Police/EMS veterans. Articles you submit should reflect on your personal experience. For example, if you are a Junior Corps member, consider writing an article about Training Ideas for Junior Corps, or Recruitment for Junior Corps. I wouldn't suggest writing an article on Technical Rescue as a Junior Corps member. We are currently looking to do a quarterly publishing based on the amount of content we receive from YOU!
Articles should be written in Word Format, and please include a brief Bio along with your article to including your field, years of experience, and any other pertinent information you would like to include. I will continually post additional information, including an email address to submit your articles.
If anyone has any questions and/or legitimate, constructive ideas for this endeavor, please feel free to PM me or post them in this thread.
Thank you for your interest, now get writing!
Joseph Bucchignano
JJB531

The Tappan Zee Bridge is New York State Police jurisdiction, not NYPD, not Greenburgh. NYPD should not have to deplete their resources in the Bronx/Manhattan to handle a job that can be obviously handled by the State Police in their own jurisdiction. How many Tech Rescue members of Greenburgh PD were working the day tour today? How many would have to be called in from home to handle this job? Would there be any time saving benefit to having Tech Rescue trained Police Officers from Greenburgh first drive in from their homes to GPD HQ, suit up, and drive to the Tappan Zee Bridge, or just fly in on-duty MRT Troopers to deal with a situation in their jurisdiction?

EMTBravo Members,
Myself and the members of the staff have been recently discussing the possibility of endeavoring to create an online magazine with content that is provided by you, the members!
EMTBravo is about sharing knowledge, information, and individual professional development. Authoring articles for trade magazines and professional publications is an excellent way to advance one's career as a professional emergency service provider, a great addition to your resume, and just another way to "get your name out there" amongst your peers, plus it gives you an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with other emergency service providers in a magazine style format.
We are currently seeking article submissions from the EMTBravo community. Articles can be on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Police, Fire, EMS, OEM and other emergency service fields. We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience. You do not need to be an "EMTBravo guru" to write an article for EMTBravo, but must be mature, knowledgeable, and professional in the delivery of your content. This includes proper spelling and grammar, and taking the time to deliver a well thought out and informative article that the members will enjoy reading.
Articles should contain some degree of substance to them, and be at least one typewritten page in length. I don't want to place a limit on how long your article can be, but please be reasonable with your submissions, it's an article, not a novel! Once we have collected enough content, reviewed it, gathered additional information, we are going to deliver this magazine to the membership in an online viewable format, where it will be easily accessed by the membership. As I previously mentioned, we are looking for writers from all walks of Emergency Services, from Youth Group/Junior Corps members to seasoned Fire/Police/EMS veterans. Articles you submit should reflect on your personal experience. For example, if you are a Junior Corps member, consider writing an article about Training Ideas for Junior Corps, or Recruitment for Junior Corps. I wouldn't suggest writing an article on Technical Rescue as a Junior Corps member. We are currently looking to do a quarterly publishing based on the amount of content we receive from YOU!
Articles should be written in Word Format, and please include a brief Bio along with your article to including your field, years of experience, and any other pertinent information you would like to include. I will continually post additional information, including an email address to submit your articles.
If anyone has any questions and/or legitimate, constructive ideas for this endeavor, please feel free to PM me or post them in this thread.
Thank you for your interest, now get writing!
Joseph Bucchignano
JJB531

A few months ago, went to the Fort Myers area of Florida looking at apartments. Found a few listings on Craigslist and followed up on them. Another one we found was obviously too good to be true; Cape Coral, private house with a dock and a pool. So I contact the owner out of curiosity and get the whole ridiculous story of how "she" is doing charity medical work in Nigeria, and won't be able to return anytime soon, but lucky for me, we can do the entire transaction right over the internet!
So I play along with this Nigerian bonehead and get him to think I'm totally interested. He gives me all this information of how and where to send a Western Union money order for the deposit, and I keep right on playing with this S.O.B.
I go to Moneygram, not Western Union, and I get a money order for....... ONE DOLLAR. cost me ten bucks to send it, I didn't care. I could picture this.....Nigerian, riding his bicycle to the bank where I sent the money order, drooling that he suckered somebody into forking over the $800 he wanted. heh heh.
The guys at Moneygram thought it was hilarious. And so I waited......then came the email response and I acted shocked! "Somebody has ripped me off!" "I will investigate this" haha...
Kept leading this jerk-off on for a week. Made him go back to the bank two more times before he finally gave up. I hope he had to bike through the freakin' desert on a rusty old one-speed with flat tires.
It got to be an obsession. My gf was starting to look at me strange. But I thought, this is the revenge for all the poor old senior citizens, the trusting old souls that this worthless POS had suckered in the past.
Call me sadistic, I don't care. I enjoyed every minute of it.
PS: Many, if not the majority of real-estate listing on Craigslist are phony scams. Be careful if you get the sob story as the previous posters have mentioned.

Thanks for the welcome! I'm excited for the opportunity to help the staff and membership in any way I can. Most importantly, I'm just looking forward to continuing to learn from the knowledgeable and invaluable members who continualy contribute their knowledge to the site. Thanks again for the welcome and I am excited for this opportunity.
Joe Bucchignano
JJB531

Thanks for the welcome! I'm excited for the opportunity to help the staff and membership in any way I can. Most importantly, I'm just looking forward to continuing to learn from the knowledgeable and invaluable members who continualy contribute their knowledge to the site. Thanks again for the welcome and I am excited for this opportunity.
Joe Bucchignano
JJB531

Thanks for the welcome! I'm excited for the opportunity to help the staff and membership in any way I can. Most importantly, I'm just looking forward to continuing to learn from the knowledgeable and invaluable members who continualy contribute their knowledge to the site. Thanks again for the welcome and I am excited for this opportunity.
Joe Bucchignano
JJB531

Another great job by one of EMTBravo's own, Helicopper. Congrats on another great job well done.
Lohud article

With due respect to the staff,
Before the topic was locked, there was some measure of displeasure with the post from the site's founder regarding one-liners and inflammatory comments, with a poster saying the site has lost it's balls and the members need thicker skin.
It's not a matter of the site "losing it's balls" or members who need "thicker skin", it's about keeping the site educational, a positive environment, and most of all, PROFESSIONAL. Sometimes we need to remember that "we" (emergency service members) are not the only ones who read the content contained in these forums. I'm sure there are enthusiasts, members of local government, members of the media, and so on who read the content contained in these forums. While it's all good to banter amongst each other as if we were in the firehouse, precinct, quarters, or whatever you would like to call it, we still have to maintain some level of decorum and professionalism just as if we were present in a public place, since this board is easily viewed by members of the general public, and more importantly the media. Case in point;
The NYPD Rant for those who's haven't read it is full of so much garbage since there is little to no moderation, it's not one bit enjoyable to read from an educational standpoint. If anyone outside the NYPD read the material in that forum, the useless bantering of a few sets a bad precedence and honestly depicts the members of the NYPD in a very negative light. The media reported today on a thread contained in the NYPD Rant website about posters who posted personal attacks against an NYPD member. As a civilian reading that article, what kind of opinion do you think the "average Joe" will have of the Rant and the members of the NYPD?
So in order to keep this site from becoming another "rant style" website, there needs to be a level of moderation that suits the wishes of the site's founder, since it is ultimately his call on what is and what is not permitted. If any of us don't like it, we are all free to start up our own site where anything goes and all the members can brag over who has the biggest balls. Personally, I'll stick with the site that's an educational portal as well as promotes and exhibits the professionalism of emergency service providers.