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yes yes sorry people!!! i'm here i'm here...

i might not be able to get back to all of you guys because i have 324 messages and 305 pictures and one note. so i have a lot to go through, lol.

and i probably won't be able to get on much this next year anyway. this summer, i'm taking 4 classes at the college, and next semester i am taking 5 college classes and i have a senior project. so yeah, if you guys really need to catch me, get at me on xbox live, or email me at krissy013@gmail.com

kthxbyee3

love you all, sorry i was gone so long!

Yes, I couldn't do one last week because I was in DC.

I won't say much now because I am really tired. So I will just tell you what we did so I will remember to tell you tomorrow or whenever.

-Overview of DUI's
-Overview of South Carolina's 26-page DUI Laws
-3 greenlight Jack in the Box by La Roca story
-"Designated Decoy" Story
-DUI in progress video
-Hands On - BAL .17 goggles and golf cart test (2 cone casualty, but best turn)
-Ride in Dodge Charger with the pretty blue lights
-Breathalizer room and fingerprinting room

And, of course, I will go into detail later... these are just cues to jog my memory so that I don't forget anything :]

So yeah, I'm leaving tomorrow (Sunday, March 15) to go to Washington, DC with my fellow US History classmates... We're going to be doing soooo much @_@ it's crazy... Anyway, I'll be sleeping on BorderlineMoose's lap the whole drive up, since we're leaving at 7AM.

So that means I won't be able to check NR or my email or anything. So yeah, don't think I abandoned you or anything, lol.

Last year, the bus driver got in an accident with some small car (whose driver was pretty beat up) so yeah, please pray for a safe trip if you would :]

talk to you guys when I get back!



[/krissy]

Ok, not really much to talk about at all today...

School ended... Waited a while to get picked up... Helped mum clean up her classroom of the foley catheters and IV's... Drove to Fairview Rd... Got a #9 with BBQ sauce at Wendy's... Ate on the drive to Fountain Inn Elementary... Did my makeup in the parking lot because we were an hour early... Met 2 of my classmates (really cool ladies, a 20 year old and her mother (who is in good shape, looks 40ish? she's like the cool mom type.. both have nose rings lol) at the entrance and we walked in...

Today was mostly a lecture day... We went over Building Searches and Burglary-in-progress scenarios.. We even took a team of 3 and performed a sweep down the hallway to arrest a 'suspect' (Sgt. Woods) who was hiding in a large cabinet-wardrobe thing (you know what I mean...). Then again, my partner, the "What If?" lady, kinda shot her (meaning she was holding the training glock and flashlight and said 'bang!') and THEN asked her to come out with her hands up........... Yeah.... That one kinda blew me away. Here I was, opening the door, and I open it like half way and the suspect is already dead...

Oh well, shoot first; ask question's later I guess...

I ended up being the one to handcuff her... I screwed up too, lol. I kinda almost forgot to bring her arms down from her head.. Yeah...

Like I said, not much I can tell you, except that we learned methods and skills about responding to break-ins and how to sweep areas...

I won't have an entry next week, because I will be in Washington, DC. But, next week they will talk about Traffic Law and watch dangerous/fatal stops and scenarios...

So I guess I won't be missing much. Thanks for the read. Sorry it wasn't that exciting... :\

OH! But I DID get the LANboree '08 Tee shirts created and posted for sale!! Check it out at http://www.lanboree.com ; remember: you didn't have to go in order to buy one!! lawl. Tiffany and I WILL be holding another one in the summer, so if anyone is in the area, you should really stop by! Even some of the girls from the PMS Clan came to see me!

Anywho, until next time,

[/krissy]

Here's the account of my second day of police academy

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Ok, well, this time, we didn't really get lost, but we really didn't know where we were going. I had a vague idea because of what that guy i was sitting with the first class told me, but that only left me with a chicken-scratched map and little to no directions. So, we finally called my brother and got the real directions. We were just one turn away from it anyway, really. I thought I did pretty good.

Well, we realized, once we got there, that this really was THE Fountain Inn Activity Center! This was the same place where i had played a few games when I was on Golden Strip's Rec Volleyball team. I felt kind of silly for not recognizing the name, even though that was like 5 years ago...

Anyway, once we knew where we were going, we went down the street to Tony's Pizza and Subs. Mother got a large pepperoni pizza (mostly to take home) and I got the chicken strip meal, which consisted of a load of crinkle fries and like 7 chicken strips. Needless to say, I didn't finish my meal (I'm eating more as I type). And, of course, I had honey mustard sauce to go along with it . Also, I ended up charging my phone inside the restaurant. Not really a fancy place by all means, more like a cleaned up double wide trailer with neon signs, yet a very respectable dining place.

I found that I was rather full in a short amount of time (Mum says that it was only 4 minutes... I could have sworn it was like 10). We left soon after that and made our way back to the Activity Center.

It was easy to find the room, because, as soon as I walked into the building, I heard that little 75 year old lady laughing and talking, so I followed her voice. This time, I wasn't the first goomba to arrive (duh). I got there at about 10 till 6.

We started about 6 minutes late because we still had the "What if..?" lady missing (That's her nickname). We started to talk about Use of Force issues. The Use of Force Continuum's are as follows:

a. levels of resistance
1. psychological intimidation (when they get in a fighting stance)
2. verbal non-compliance (don't listen to what you say, say they won't go)
3. passive resistance (they just sit there and refuse to comply)
4. defensive resistance (when they start to pull away when you try to handcuff them)
5. active aggression (punching, kicking, etc.)
6. deadly force assault (pulls out weapon)

b. levels of control
1. officer presence
2. verbal direction
3. empty hand control (defense tactics)
a. soft (pressure points)
b. hard (kicks and palm thrusts)
4. intermediate weapon (tasers, OC spray)
5. deadly force (pull out your own weapon)

So yeah, we got with our partners. My partner was the guy who gave me those directions (haha). So yeah, this guy is like, a good foot and a half taller than me, so it was kinda odd. He's also in his late 30's perhaps, and doesn't wear a wedding band, so I don't think he's married. We started the pressure points first. We did the wrist one. I don't know if I can really describe it well with words, but here goes: so you have the officer and the suspect (draw this if you wish lol). The officer grabs the suspect's arm and pulls it under his, kinda hugging it in his/her armpit. He then puts his right hand over the suspect's knuckles, and uses his left hand to cover and support his right. Then, all you have to do, is apply pressure to the knuckles, causing the wrist to bend forward. You have to be careful, though, or else you can break the suspect's wrist... And that would not be cool. Anyway, I was with that one dude, and he was so worried that he was going to hurt me (pfft, yeah right! you can't hurt me ). I thought I'd mess with him a little, so the second time he tried it on me, I was all "OW! Oh my God that hurts!" The look on his face was PRICELESS! He was all like "Oh! I'm so sorry!!!" The everyone kinda burst into laughter because the rest of them knew I was joking. I gave the middle-aged man a sweet smile and simply said, "gotcha!"

After that, we got to learn how to use handcuffs! This was exciting and so much fun! I got together with my tall yet gullible partner, and we went through the procedures (yes, this sounds a bit wrong, but try not to dwell on it -_-; ). So, you tell the suspect that they are under arrest; you tell them to turn around, spread their legs, bend over, and put their hands behind their back, palms up. Then you grab their right thumb, make it face kinda outward, and cuff from the top of the wrist, right where the bone is. Then you grab their left hand by the fingers, twist the wrist outward slightly, and cuff from the top. And there you go, you've been cuffed! Now, me, being the difficult smart ass I am, managed to escape. Yes- escape. The first 2 times, I dropped my arms down and stepped over them, bringing my arms in front of my body. The third time, I pulled a Houdini and just slipped out of the cuffs altogether. Well, the left cuff, that is. The right one was too tight. Now, the left hand was still tight, but, using my advanced knowledge of Physics and Geometry, managed to angle and twist my hand until it became free. And, yes, I still have red marks from the struggle. gg me!

After the handcuffing came the really sweet part: WE GOT TO SEE 2 GUYS GET TASED! All the new officers have to do it either before or after they go to the academy. One of the guys had been with them for only a month or 2, the other guy had only been there for a week (lol). Pretty much, they said that it didn't really hurt, but it makes you lock up and you can't move. The was those things work is really cool. So pretty much there is this cartridge that you load into the taser. You use the laser sight to line up where the top node is going to hit, you pull the trigger, and out come these 2 nodes with little needles on them. The needles get stuck into your skin, and for 5 seconds, These guys endured 50,000 volts of electricity pulsing through their bodies. They took it like men! (And I got to start a slow clap! hoo-rah!)

I'm going to be very brief from this point on, because this is getting rather long...

But after that, we practiced knee thrusts, where we pretty much knee the bad guy in the outer thigh. Then we worked on the palm thrusts, where, obviously, you thrust the heel of your palm into the bad guy's solarplexis. Then we practiced doing both of those at the same time with a defensive resistant suspect. Where we'd knee them first to get them to start struggling, and then use the wrist grab thingy to get them to comply.

And that was pretty much it. It was extremely fun, I can't wait 'till next week!

Check back next Tuesday (from 9:30-10:00 pm EST) for my blog about Week 3: Search & Seizure laws/ procedures, Building searches, and Burglary in process scenarios.

Thanks for reading!

-pwncess

I don't want attention. I just want people to listen. YOU choose whether or not to comment on how my day has been and on how I feel.

Hasn't your mother ever told you, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all!" ????

Well, listen to yo mamma.

[[you've just been pwncessed. gg no re kthxbye.]]

Well, today was amazing! The first day of Citizen's Police Academy, and I had a GREAT TIME! It was so funny! It took us a while to find the darn place, considering that one lady told us that we were meeting "in a hotel right behind Bruster's on Glenview Rd. right off of Fairview St." Well, there are about 3 hotels in that area, and about 3 or 4 ice cream parlors that could have very well been meant instead of Bruster's.

Anywho, after we went into the Hampton Inn and they told us that the class was actually meeting down the street at the Holiday Inn Express.

We went to KFC across the street to get something to eat. I ended up getting the 3 piece colonel's strips meal with mashed potatoes and gravy and potato wedges. The guy taking our oder at the drive thru must have been convinced that he was black or something, it's just the way he spoke, it was too funny. And then when we are about to drive off he says, "Thanks, you ladies have a good evening!"

So we pull up to the hotel and I ate all my food like the hungry hippo I am, and I ended up eating a total of 5 chicken strips because my mom had already had chicken for lunch that day and just couldn't bear to eat it for dinner, too. So I ended eating 2/3 of hers, so, being the fatty I am, I ate a total of 5 chicken strips, mashed potatoes 'n' gravy, and potato wedges. 'Twas yummeh.

I walked in at 5:45, 15 minutes before the class is scheduled to take place, I ask the dude at the desk where the Police Academy was taking place, he told me the conference just down the hall, first door on the left after the double doors... I go up to it... it's locked [/denied]. But some nice maintenance dude just so happened to be walking by and asked, "You here for the Fountain Inn police academy?" I'm all like "Yeah" and then he uses his little key card to let me in.

Now, at the time I figured that I was late or something because the door was already locked. I walked in to 6, 6' tables, with 2 chairs each, and a little half inch notebook at each spot with a blue pen on top.
They had fruit and veggie trays, coffee, hot chocolate, hot tea, fresh cookies, and water and Pepsi in the conference room where we were staying.But, I was the first one there, and I treated myself to a nice cup of hot chocolate <3. And then, like 5 minutes after, some guy walks in. We make small talk about how we got there and the directions we got.. Meanwhile, Chief of Police A. Keith Morton, Sgt. Woods, & Officer S. Nelson and everyone else came trickling in... I was pretty much the only one there who was under the age of 40, lol. But, I'll yell ya what, middle aged and 70-somethin aged people are funny as hell! I don't know if it's because I have a mature sense of humor or they were just plain funny, but whatever.

Well, when we finally got started, we introduced ourselves and where we worked... My intro ended up being. "My name is Kristen, and, well, I'm still in high school..." *everyone laughs* "...so I kinda quit my job" *more laughter from my 'audience'*

Anyway, today we went over the general objectives for the class, the 4th amendment, search and seizure rights, the definition of 'probable cause', procedures about deciding what cases to issue warrants to, how to write a warrant, the exclusionary rule, which states that even if you have all the evidence to convict someone of a crime, and they find that your warrant doesn't cover what you did to get that evidence, that the evidence will be suppressed, and the case closed. That, to me, is really gay, which is why CoP Morton stressed the importance of making a thorough warrant.

After we went through all that, we got to go into the next room and do a drug search!!!! with REAL drugs! It was too cool! I found the gun under the couch cushion, and the cocaine under the lid of the back of the toilet, which really impressed Sgt. Woods.

Well, at the end of the night, I was filled with laughs after hearing tons of HILARIOUS police stories, some of which involve using regular dogs at the humane society and posing them as drug sniffing dogs and using a copy machine as a polygraph machine to trick some black guy into confessing to a stabbing.

I also came out with a nickname, "hair." Chief Morton had been saying all night, "Back when I had hair..." and so when I found the cocaine in the toilet, and Sgt. Woods said "Wow, I'm impressed, I really didn't think you'd find that.." I simply turned to the Chief and said, "It's the hair."

Well, while taking this class won't certify me to be a police officer, but, when I'm telling someone whether something is or is not legal, and they ask me if I am a certified police officer, I can say, "No, but I took a class at the Holiday Inn Express!" (if you don't get that joke, watch this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yH8FZusjY94)


If you guys want anything else in here explained, just ask here, and I'll add it later

Thanks for reading!

-pwncess

So, yeah, I think for once I am finally going to take this blogging thing seriously, lol. My first Police Academy class starts tomorrow. Only about 12 or 18 people's applications were accepted, so I guess I was excited. :\

I honestly don't know what to expect. I'm really nervous, not really scared, but I just have no idea what's in store for me. I'm attending this class a year before the legal limit because I applied with my mother's consent in that "I'm not easily freaked out or emotionally disgruntled." Now, don't get me wrong, I'm excited as hell for this class, I mean, who knows, maybe I'll get my hands on some uber guns IRL! Haha!

But yeah, I'm going to start a new blog series called "Diary of Trainee," and my first entry will be tomorrow after I get back from my class. It's every Tuesday, so check back every Tuesday night for updates!

Other than that, today was pretty good I guess. Merritt (BorderlineMoose) and I went to our 8 AM College class today, both pretty tired. And, yet again, our seemingly Russian teacher's accent drove us up the wall. Seriously, guys, this woman has like a Russian accent, I mean, her name is Rivka... That MUST be Russian! And her speaking Spanish... It just doesn't seem right! And then our 11:00 MAT 111 class... Oh, wow. We had a test today, I'm pretty positive I failed it. So is Merritt. The questions were dumb, our professor is a nerdy nerd, and impossible to keep up with. And, due to the fact we are both still trying to recover from illness, our minds weren't in the right condition to take such a test.

So, after school, I had to wait about 4 hours to even go home. My mother drives me (laugh all you want, at least I don't have to pay for gas, noobs.), and she was working today. (She works down the street at the other end of the college campus, teaching an RN Refresher course that the state paid her to write the curriculum for...) So, during the time where I was waiting outside her classroom door on a reasonably comfy couch-like seating arrangement, I had a lot of time to think about what I want to do with my gaming career. I will tell you more about those thoughts as soon as they develop!

Anyway, I just got home about 30-45 minutes ago...

Well, I don't want to make my blogs too long, or else no one will read them, lol. I will try to use correct grammar (which I do anyway, I'm a grammar FREAK.), and I will also try to capitalize my letters for once (i'm really not big on the who capitalizing letters thing, as you can tell. really, i don't know if i will capitalize anyway! bwahaha!). I shall try not to use too many $5 words so that all you guys know what I'm talking about.

Well, I smell some chicken alfredo downstairs, so that's all for now! I mean I guess.

you will laugh your ass off, if you don't, i will beat you with a rotting trout. :D

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rN2VqFPNS8w

r-e-a-d a b-o-O-K!

funny stuff right there.

ok, it was finally delivered!!! my new fluffy queen sized mattress! it's oh so comfy! it's almost like sleeping on a cloud o_o (no pun intended, Final Fantasy) so anyway, along with my 445 thread count EGYPTIAN COTTON SHEETS, i will be sleeping VERY WELL tonight, and from now on.

yes... i give you permission to be VERY jealous. ;D

ok, so i know that pretty much everyone has, at one time or another, dwelled for a period of time about what the hell "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..." means... well... for all of you nerds out there... i shall tell you:

The text is derived from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Ends of Goods and Evils, aka The Purposes of Good and Evil ). The original passage began: Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit (Translation: "Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it")

So, original LATIN passage:

"…neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?"

English:

"Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"