Sarge's Award: man jumps in to Des Plains river

Moments earlier, O’Brien, 26, had spotted the boy running around the intersection of River Road and Miner Street in Des Plaines. He got out of his car about 3:30 p.m. and tried to cajole the boy to safety. No parents were in sight, and dozens of other motorists had passed by without doing anything, O’Brien said.

“He picked up a chunk of snow the size of a football and took off running,” said O’Brien, who chased the boy. The boy scurried down to the concrete embankment of the Des Plaines River, hurled the chunk of snow in the water and stood there mesmerized for a moment. Then he jumped in after it, O’Brien said.

O’Brien, trailing the boy by a few feet, could see the boy’s orange Bears cap beneath the river’s surface, and he jumped in the water, which came up to his waist.

The boy’s hand broke the water’s surface. O’Brien grabbed it and carried the hysterical boy to his SUV and blasted the heat. O’Brien’s girlfriend calmed down the boy by introducing him to the couple’s 10-month-old puppy, Shandy, a border collie/lab mix.

Sarge's Awards: Officer Ziegler of the Winston-Salem, N.C. Police is awarded the Sarges Merit award

This is what the true meaning of Serve and Protect really means. Whats on the sarges mind is awarding this officer the Merit ribbon.

 

 It was cold, wet and gray in Winston-Salem, N.C., when Police Officer Charlie Ziegler noticed a woman pushing a stroller in the rain.

“I went up to her and said, ‘Get in the car, there’s no reason for you or your baby to be out here,’” Ziegler told ABC News.

Ziegler’s act of chivalry last Tuesday was photographed by a passer-by and posted on Facebook and the officer has been surprised by how popular the photo has become on the internet since, to him, it was a normal act of kindness.

“You see someone and you just help them,” he said.

The woman and her child had only three blocks left before reaching her destination, a daycare center where she works, but Ziegler wanted to get them out of the icy rain.

Ziegler joined the police department four years ago.

“It was one of those, either do it or stop talking about it kind of moments. Right around when the economy went completely down. So I applied and here I am,” said Ziegler.

But the officer doesn’t attribute his good deed to being a policeman. As a husband and father of two young children, Ziegler says even if he was off-duty, he still would have helped the woman.

When off-duty, Ziegler works at First Baptist Church. He said that while providing security there, he often sees the woman who he helped walk by.

Ziegler’s mother-in-law, Donna Johnson, told ABC News that the act was representative of his caring personality.

“He’s just that type of person. Very helpful and outgoing, and he doesn’t want to see anyone in trouble or in need,” said Johnson.

Ziegler’s wife Rachel echoed her mom’s statement. “It’s not a surprising story,” she told ABC News. “It’s very Charlie-esque.”

Rachel Ziegler said she’s surprised by how viral the image has become.

“Last Tuesday I was actually having lunch with him and he told me that someone from the local news had contacted him and it surprised me,” she said. “You would just expect anyone to do that…to save someone from the freezing rain.”

 

Illinois the over taxed highly paid state and the tax payers and voters get no relief

Illinois Governor takes in 179,400.00 a year
Lt. Governor takes in 137,200.00 a year
Secretary of State 158,300 a year
Attorney General 158,300 a year
Treasurer & comptroller 137,300.00 a year
State Legislature 67, 836.00 a year
They all get an additional 102,000.00 in perdiem

Mayor Daley will collect 1.5 million in retirement along with 50 Alderman.

Illinois tax payers pay 66% in state taxes from tobacco to beer to housing to death.

K-12 grades get 26%
Higher ed gets 13%
Medical 13%
Public Assis. 1%
D.O.C. 5%
Transportation 5%
Other 37%
This is what our taxes go towards

This is where they get it
Retail pay additional 3%
Chicago soft drink tax 3%
Gross Syrup in drink tax 9%
tabacco tax3.33%
Gasoline tax 29%
Alcohol tax 10%
In Cook county Property tax is 33.33% and was raised to add 16% more to it at the end of 2012.
Death tax 8%


All of this tax is paid and Illinois is still in debt. According to the state revenue the state took in over  11,878,698.00 in taxes paid to the state. Yet they keep getting pay raises and they keep us to pay higher taxes.

When are we going to them to fuck off.

States to use the 10th Amendment

Oakland Zoo welcomes inmate

The man accused in the shooting of an Oakland rapper that led to a fiery crash last month on the Las Vegas Strip and a manhunt that ended at a San Fernando Valley residence faces an extradition hearing Monday morning.

Ammar Harris, 26, is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles Superior Court after his arrest Thursday in connection with the Feb. 21 shooting and crash that left three people dead. Harris was allegedly driving a black Range Rover sport utility vehicle when he fired at least five rounds into a Maserati after an argument at a casino valet area.

Twenty-seven-year-old rapper Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., aka Kenny Clutch, was driving the Maserati when he was shot near Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard. Cherry's vehicle then crashed into a taxicab, which exploded, killing the driver and the 48-year old passenger.

The Strip was closed for about 15 hours during the investigation. The black SUV was located at an apartment complex two days later before Harris' arrest Thursday at a North Hollywood apartment.

The hearing Monday will determine whether Harris will be extradited to Nevada to face charges.

New York's Finest faces charges for eating human's

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -
Testimony in the so-called cannibal cop trial resumes Monday as prosecutors will continue to present its case against NYPD Officer Gilberto Valle.
Valle, a six-year veteran, is accused of plotting to kidnap, kill and eat women. According to his attorney Edward Zas, the whole thing was all fantasy and he intended no harm.
According to a report, Zas says Valle might take the witness stand in his own defense.
Valle remains in prison without bail

from My Fox New York

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- A central California retirement home is defending one of its nurses who refused pleas by a 911 operator to perform CPR on an elderly woman, who later died.
"Is there anybody that's willing to help this lady and not let her die," dispatcher Tracey Halvorson says on a 911 tape released by the Bakersfield Fire Department aired by several media outlets on Sunday.
"Not at this time," said the nurse, who didn't give her full name and said facility policy prevented her from giving the woman medical help.
At the beginning of the Tuesday morning call, the nurse asked for paramedics to come and help the woman who had collapsed in the home's dining room and was barely breathing.
Halvorson pleads for the nurse to perform CPR, and after several refusals she starts pleading for her to find a resident, or a gardener, or anyone not employed by the home to get on the phone, take her instructions and help the woman.
"Can we flag someone down in the street and get them to help this lady?" Halvorson says on the call. "Can we flag a stranger down? I bet a stranger would help her."
The 87-year-old was later declared dead at Mercy Southwest Hospital, officials said.
The executive director of Glenwood Gardens, Jeffrey Toomer, defended the nurse's actions in a statement, saying she did indeed follow policy.
"In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives," Toomer said in a written statement. "That is the protocol we followed."
Toomer offered condolences to the woman's family and said a "thorough internal review" of the incident would be conducted.
He told KGET-TV that residents of the home's independent living community are informed of the policy and agree to it when they move in. He said the policy does not apply at the adjacent assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.