Gun Pulled on Parking Officer

A local parking enforcement officer had a gun pulled on him as he waited for police to come grab a stolen car he was sitting on.

This is a common occurence, finding a stolen car I mean, not getting a gun pulled on you. A parking guy gets ready to ticket a car and it turns out its stolen. If the police want to do fingerprinting and stuff then they have to come to the location and take possession of the car, seal it and send it to a police pound. If they are too busy, you may wait a while - you can't leave the car because you need to show some continuity of evidence and besides the theif may come back for it. Sometimes you can wait a few hours..

We know the person involved, luckily he was able to defend himself by punching the guy and managed to grab the gun.

There will now be a renewed call for officers to be armed - either with guns or a nightstick. Nightsticks require ongoing training and personally I wouldn't bring a night stick to a gun fight.

This ought to be quite the discussion around the stations and hopefully calmer heads will prevail.