Cuffs Are Comfortable
Lessons From a Crime-Fighting Security Guard
Officer Matthew Nelson was sent to a residence and was told that a mother was threatening her son with a knife. The son stated that he and his mother, Sylvia Colby-Caron, had been arguing for most of the day about things like rent and the use of tobacco. The mother started to hit him and grabbed two large steak knives and held them over her head in a stabbing motion.
Colby-Caron said that she had only grabbed the knives to slash her son’s tires. Nelson placed her into custody while Colby-Caron was wearing a bathrobe and slippers with a rubber sole. He asked her if she had any shoes. “That is a stupid question,” she replied, “No, I have no shoes.” Nelson walked her out to his cruiser in her slippers.
At the police station, Nelson tried to take her cuffs off when she was in the cell, but she told him that she had just gotten comfortable and wanted the cuffs to remain on. While Nelson was trying to take her booking photo, “she would just stand against the wall with her mouth wide open,” he wrote. “I asked her several times to close her mouth, but she would not. She finally put her teeth together, but would not stand and take a normal picture.”
Eventually she was taken to the county jail.
“While driving there she told me that she was going to sue me, and asked if I like men,” Nelson wrote.
Source: Concord Monitor
GERI’S LESSON FOR CIVILIANS: (1) Close your mouth in your booking photo and take a normal picture. (2) Police officers do not count slippers as shoes. (3) Smoking can really piss off your mom.