News

I heard a couple news stories today listening to the radio that got me thinking and don't know what to make of them.
First story is about a police swat team who got rewarded for their bravery in a raid of a house. Sounds all good, right? But their is something wrong here, they raided the wrong house! So how did they get this reward for bravery? Well the man in the house had a shotgun, nothing wrong with that, it is ok to have a gun in your house. Anyway the man shot his gun threw the wall because he thought it was someone breaking into his house and he was just protecting himself. Well after he shot the swat team shot back, no one was hurt during all this. But these members of this team are getting rewarded for a mistake. They are lucky no one was killed.
The second story is how the congress passed a law requiring every, single family house, in Minnesota must have a carbon dioxide detector 10 feet from each bedroom. This is because a families daughter died because of carbon dioxide poisoning. truly sad. A few things about this law tho. How is the state going to regulate it? I can see them sending out people with a measuring tape and measure to see if the detector is 10ft away. so what if it is 10ft 1in away? do u get fined or something? I don't know, and another thing. these detectors are not cheap, 30 bucks is the cheapest. So the least the state could do is offer rebates or send out coupons for these detectors. Again, it is a good idea to have a detector in your house, because carbon dioxide is a deadly poison gas.
Those are just a few news stories that got me thinking.