IconoclasT wrote:
] Unbelievable!
]
] Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:33 p.m. ET
]
] LISBON, Conn. (AP) -- A state trooper was suspended for 15
] days without pay after he was recorded on a 911 tape saying
] "too bad" to a caller seeking help for a man injured in a
] motorcycle accident.
]
] State police said the dismissive answer by Trooper Robert
] Peasley did not affect the response time to the accident
] involving Justin Sawyer, 21, who died of a severe head injury
] a week after the crash last August. Peasley was suspended on
] Monday.
] Russell Shepard, a friend of Sawyer's, called 911, which was
] routed to the state police barracks in Montville. When he
] reported the accident, Peasley said, "Yeah ... too bad,"
] and hung up, according to a tape obtained by WTNH-TV.
] ...
] "I am absolutely outraged every time I hear that `too bad' and
] then click," said Sawyer's father, Jim Sawyer. "I only know
] that I would have felt a whole lot more comfortable if I had
] heard people responding on the end of that 911 call with some
] heart and caring."

That was pretty heartless and stupid!