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! RE: Trooper Suspended for 'Too Bad' 911 Remark |