The last taser and O.C. class was on the 16th. I finally got this video done. There were not as many people in this class, so I combined the taser and OC together into one video. It's hard to hear everyone, but I think it came out pretty well. Hope you enjoy it.

All right here is the Pepper Spray portion of the class. After being sprayed with Pepper spray they all had to fight me, in the Red man suit. It was pretty fun.

TASER ! TASER ! TASER !

allright here is the taser portion of the use of force class. I had to cut a lot out of this video, and keep it pretty simple. The video is still four and half minutes long. I hope you enjoy it.

SPONGE BOB!!!!!

PS: if you guys want a copy of any of these video's let me know, or simply go to the My videos and sign up so you can download them.

On the heels of Chucky passing away, I found this video about military dogs retiring. I thought it was appropriate.



 

Idaho Falls K-9 Officer Passes Away

Posted: July 30, 2008 05:18 PM

One K-9 officer who served the city of Idaho Falls for three years passed away Wednesday due to sudden terminal cancer.

Chuckie was a four and a half year old Belgian Malinois and was trained, handled and lived with Officer Pat McKenna.

Chuckie was trained in explosives detection and in the apprehension of barricaded and fleeing suspects.

Chuckie's animal doctor believes he was suffering from some form of cancer.

He was cleared of service by an emergency dispatcher who announced that Chuckie was 10-42. That's police code for ending his tour of duty.
http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=8763413

Well we had so much fun doing the water deploy, we decided to do it again, and try to include those that didn't make it to the last one. This one was on the river, and things went pretty well. See video above

I just spent a week in Pocatello for a K9 seminar. It was a good time. There were probably 60 or so K9 teams there. We did a lot of good training, and i made two new videos. Please check them out. I have not had time to edit them, and fix them up yet, and I have more that I want to add so I will be doing that later.

  


This should serve as a warning to all freedom loving Americans. Before pulling the lever this coming November, remember: both Hillary and Obama support draconian gun laws aimed not at criminals (because criminals don't obey the laws anyway), but at law abiding citizens.

http://transsylvaniaphoenix.blogspot.com/2008/05/british-called-they-want-their-guns.html

Now here's a test on who really loves you........

You come home grab the wife by the scruff of the neck, grab the dog by the scruff of his neck and drag them into the garage...........Open the trunk of the car and bung them both in, expect a little resistance from both of them but, slam the trunk lid down.
Go inside and watch TV or whatever for about four hours then return to car in the garage.....open the trunk lid.....who's glad to see you?........

 



This is truly amazing. I can't believe no one goes to help him.

Ok so it's been a while, one of my friends told me that i needed to update this because his wife mentioned it was very outdated., I didn't think anyone ever really even looked on here anymore.

Well i feel stupid enough without sharing this with the world, but take this as a cautionary tale, dogs are faster than humans. .. I was standing outside the Sheriff's office talking to some fellow officers, and we were kicking the toy for Jenny (my K9). Anyway one of the guys says, "I will give you a quarter if you can take that toy out of her mouth" well I have done this many times, you just have to be quick, and catch her off guard so (like an idiot) I decide to try. Well my first warning is that she is very intense, and keeps a hold of the toy very tight every time i get close. ... I don't pay attention. so I give it a shot, and I slap the ball out of her mouth, only she snaps her jaws shut very quickly, and very forcefully, right on my trigger finger. Of course I jerk away, only causing more damage. Well she bit down hard enough that it not only cuts my finger it actually splits it open from the pressure. I of course feel really stupid, and tell everyone that I'm fine, and the hurry home to inspect the damage.
I will be fine, but i sure hope i don't get into any gun fights anytime soon, I have a large bandage on my index finger, and it feels like I smashed it with a really big hammer.
Not only that it's very hard to type without your index finger. It's a reminder on how sharp these dogs teeth really can be.

 


This one speaks for itself !!

I found this on another site, and just had to share it. I thought it was pretty funny. Sorry about the all caps.



NARRATIVE:

ON 07/08/07, AT APPROXIMATELY 0326 HOURS, I WAS TRAVELING
NORTHBOUND IN THE 6100 BLOCK OF N. COLLEGE AVE. IN MY FULLY MARKED
IMPD POLICE VEHICLE AND IN FULL UNIFORM. I HAD MY WINDOWS ROLLED
DOWN. I HEARD A MALE VOICE CALLING FOR A PIG, HE WAS SAYING 'SUEY! PIGGY! PIGGY!' I LOOKED OVER AND OBSERVED THREE WHITE MALES AND A WHITE FEMALE WALKING SOUTHBOUND ON THE EAST SIDE OF N. COLLEGE AVE. ONE OF THE WHITE MALES WEARING BLUE JEANS AND A LIGHT COLORED BUTTONED UP SHIRT LOOKED DIRECTLY AT ME WITH RED GLASSY BLOODSHOT EYES AND SAID, 'SUEY PIGGY, PIGGY.' I WAS CONCERNED THAT THE MAN
HAD LOST HIS PIG AND THAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ROAMING AROUND IN THE
BROAD RIPPLE AREA SO I DECIDED TO STOP AND ASSIST HIM, BECAUSE I KNOW HOW DEVASTATING A LOSS OF PET CAN BE. I IDENTIFIED THE WHITE MALE SUBJECT FROM AN INDIANA DRIVER'S LICENSE AS JAMES ADAM MCGRATH, DOB 1/22/82. WHILE I WAS SPEAKING WITH MR. MCGRATH ABOUT HIS POSSIBLE LOST PIG, I SMELLED A STRONG ODOR COMMONLY ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ON HIS BREATH AND PERSON. HIS SPEECH WAS ALSO SLIGHTLY SLURRED. I PLACED MR. MCGRATH UNDER ARREST FOR PUBLIC INTOXICATION AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE APC BY A MARION COUNTY JAIL WAGON. I SEARCHED THE ENTIRE BROAD RIPPLE AREA AND
UNFORTUNATELY WAS NOT ABLE TO LOCATE ANY LOST PIGS. ALL OF THE ABOVE OCCURRED IN MARION COUNTY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

K9 Training again. I have been extremely interested in video again. Not really sure why, but part of the reason is all the HD videos you can see over on Vimeo. I want a new camera now!!

Anyway. This latest video is of us out training. This one has some good patrol work going on. You can see the dogs getting to bite the bad guy, but you can also see the call offs. Meaning when the dog goes for a bit, the handler needs to be able to call his dog off from biting. The handler also needs to be able to instruct his dog to let go once the dog had already bitten the bad guy as well. It's pretty hard for the dogs to let go, simply because this is all fun and games for them, and getting to bite is a big reward so they don't really want to let go. It's kinda like telling a little kid to put down his candy. All these dogs did pretty well, there is still a lot of work to do, but that's why we keep training. Anyway I hope you like the video.

I added a new video to my collection. I don't think I will leave this one on there for very long, It is 3 different dogs doing some training. We hid a guy in the rafters, and had him hide so that the dogs couldn't see him Then the dogs had to use there nose to find the bad guy. All three dogs did very well. I loved watching the last dog. He stopped and looks up for some time before he realizes that he has found the guy.

I am also trying to up the quality of the videos, I display, this one was rendered in a high definition format, even though my camera does not record in High definition. I just wanted to see how it would come out. It looks decent, but it's too dark. I think I will have to learn how to do some color adjustment on the videos i make.

Ok we had another taser class yesterday, and i spent the entire day trying to get this video put together. I hope you like it. I can't say it's 100% finished yet, but I like it, and it's done for now.
 
I can't watch Clements without laughing hard, and while we were watching this my son pointed out that Kurt seems a bit like Papa Smurf, so now I have to laugh every time i see Papa Smurf get tased

The new video is called Taser 2008, If you want to watch it, its the one that says Stud List on the video list above.

This is just Crazy! It seems that these kinds of things are becoming more and more common. This small little community is getting bigger, and along with it comes all the problems of a larger community. I don't know a lot about this case, other than to say I do know the news didn't get it all right. Many of what they reported is what they assume happened not what really happened, but hey it's the new, and that's how they do things.




  

 


Yea I know I just had to comment on this one. I mean with as much bad publicity as we get, and then this happens. What an idiot! Judging from this incident this guy should not be wearing a badge, and should not be talking to people period. Looks like the kid probably had an attitude, but nothing that warrants what the cop did. You can't simply demand respect and expect to get it. I have dealt with a lot of kids, and many times their lack of respect astonishes me, but WOW  this is just ridiculous.