BPR:
Friday in Bartow, Florida, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd held a media briefing alongside Bartow Police Chief Steve Walker following a gunfight that left two officers wounded and the suspect dead. Of 34-year-old Wayne Volz, Judd, known for warning criminals they were putting their lives against the Second Amendment, had no qualms in calling out the deceased suspect who pistol-whipped his own mom in the lead-up to the altercation with law enforcement.
“He was out of control,” asserted Judd, who explained how the threat to the public had begun with Volz holding his parents hostage in their Fort Meade home, where he also lived, following an argument. It was when the situation escalated to Volz accompanying his father to the Bartow Lowe’s that a gunfight ensued with responding officers. more here
Text that rodent the number for Jenny Craig to take care of that sudden weight gain…
‘As Judd had explained, Volz, a known drug addict, had taken away his parents’ cellphones and threatened their lives Friday morning while claiming to be “Jesus and God.”’
…it wasnt nearly so dramatic, but I had a frequent flyer on my ambulance who was demonstrating the stupidity of the ‘deinstitutiinalization’ craze that was just getting up a good head of steam then, a schizoid sent to live in this goofy “Group Home” scheme that the County came up with whereby a person would get ~12 house “training”, then given a stipend for each assorted fruit and nut they took into their invariably undersized home. I dont know what that training actually entailed, but from what I could see it was mostly “Call 911 any time you want to or cant handle it”, which they somehow stretched into a dozen hours, but I digress.
…anyway, the “Jesus and God” thing resonates because this particular guy represented himself as Jesus on a lot of calls, althogh as his miracles usually stopped short of not pissing himself and causing bodily harm to others, it was kinda hard to take him at his word.
Then one night we got a call to a familiar address, this time to roll TWO Squads there because of a violent assault by the violent mental. On this occasion it appeared a minister had been called to help before us (nice try), but he must have offended the self-appointed divinity he was talking to as said individual chose to smite him with a guitar. Fortunately for him it was the acoustic variety so it just dented his head and the broken wood and tensioned strings just cut him a bit, where a solid bodied Stratocaster would likey have killed him. It probably went something like this…
https://youtu.be/010aaw1Ajo0?si=OSaYZuqXbiiX3T6X
…anyhow, when it came time to strap ‘jesus’ down, it turns out he got a promotion from Son to Father, as he was identifying as Yahweh now and treatening his wrath upon us all. Given that one would expect more lighting and less spittle from He who sits on the Throne of Judgement, we mostly verbally humored the Notmighty while continuing to package both he and his sadder but hopefully wiser erstwhile earthly representative, to send to different destinations where the Mostly Not Host would be quickly released after answering the Three Questions, but thats a different story for another day.
…anyway, it just tickled me to see my own personal pretender to two-thirds of the Trinity still lives in spirit today. Were it they each thought they were Ganesh or Krishna instead I would have suspected reincarnation, but The God of Abramam doesnt roll that way, so probably not…
Hopefully that soros ghetto trash Crockett wanders into Judd’s jurisdiction and urges violence.
Will the Dems hold a vigil for Volz?
From the linked article: “According to PCSD, the suspect had a “criminal history that includes previous arrests for battery domestic violence, larceny, burglary, violation of probation, and failure to appear.”
It’s still shocking to me that in ALL of these events, the perp has an appalling list of grievous priors that have never been judicially addressed. And, yet, there they always are. And I worry about jaywalking, littering, and not putting my grocery cart back in the parking lot grocery cart area.
I’m convinced that, in this country, law enforcement and the fire departments, and courts, exist almost solely as a revolving door for hardened criminals. Not to protect and serve dumb, law-abiding, tax-paying slobs like me. Think about it: if these agencies were really keen to do their jobs… I don’t want to hear another word about “to the fullest extent of the law”. The whole thing is just another grift, isn’t it?
AbigailAdams
Sunday, 20 April 2025, 15:48 at 3:48 pm
“I’m convinced that, in this country, law enforcement and the fire departments, and courts, exist almost solely as a revolving door for hardened criminals.”
…this is kind of what I meant when I described MY schitzo patient as a “frequent flyer”. Even in MY day it was a black joke how we had violent mental patients we took to the general hospital again…and again…and again…only to have them released back into the community as fast as the shrinks could spring ’em. They were considered too crazy to stand trial but in the dawning age of deinstututionalization not crazy enough for inpatient treatment, and so they ended up in a bunch of half-assed, stopgap ‘residential treatment’ programs from which they happily committed crimes from assault to arson with only a 72 hour at best break in between unless it was too egregous for the local authorites to ignore.
After a few trips to Pill Hill, those that wanted to learned to game the system, which made itself deliberately easy to game. They were often chairity cases anyway so between the lack of profit and the political push to deinstitutionalizaton (thanks, Jack Nicholson and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) the shrinks didnt want them anyway, so they came up with a never-varied three question “test” that, if they answered the questions they were simply told to go forth and sin no more. “Crazy” and “Stupid” not being the same thing the goofballs picked up on it pretty quick, and it worked so well that one time we took a guy the cops “red tagged” (involuntary commit due to risk of harm to self or others) to the hospital and started our paperwork, only to have him released before we cleared. I know this because he asked us for A RIDE HOME, which we could not do and I would not do anyway, so security had to take care of his return arrangements.
This goes on and has actually gotten WORSE because no one involved, not judges, not shrinks, not hospitals, bears ANY responsibility for it when their patients go on to burn, rape, beat, or kill themselves or others. Its just “wE nEvEr SaW iT cOmInG”, a shrug, then theyd go on to make sure MORE lives are ruined.
Until and unless that changes, until shrinks and judges are made PERSONALLL liable, until the institutions are opened again, and they start TREATING mental illness instead of CELEBRATING it, this will only get WORSE.
And its pretty dispiriting to those who have to deal with it. Its not the main reason I stopped doing that, but I must admit never having to be part of that particular revolving door did have a powerful appeal…
“We shot him a lot”, F A F O!
Police Chief to officers of involved shooting:
“Why did you shoot him 69 times?”
Officers to chief:
‘Cause we ran out of bullets.
This should become a thing. Good way to dispose of the trash.