I nor any member of my family will ever darken their doors again. That is totally insensitive to the officers or the community. Maybe they should fix thier alams and not waste the community's time with their false alarms

i have to agree the manager was out of line with his letter, but by not coming back to the resturant ever or a boycott will effect the roadhouse as a whole. More so it will effect its employees, who are mostly college students trying to make ends meet. these people are me, my girlfriend, and most of my friends. Were normal people with normal jobs going through school on our own expence. These employees are part of the community too. By boycotting this place we are punishing part of our own community. It is not their fault so they shouldnt have to suffer because of the views of one person in their workplace.

I would hope that the same boycott would be in line for FFX county in regards to Ben & Jerry's, the company donated plenty of money to the defense fund of Mumai in Phila, he shot execution style a Police Officer but never heard of any boycotts concerning this.

Not that I have any support for him but the man's name is Mumia Abu-Jamal. Ben & Jerry's never gave any money to defense of Abu-Jamal. Ben Cohen (one of the founders) put his name on an add requesting a retrial.

If your going to start boycotting things, you should at least get your facts straight.

But I'm staying away from the Texas Roadhouse until they replace Mr. Rainwater.

While I agree that police officers who are killed in the line of duty should be honored by the communities they serve, I can't help wondering why that honor has to feature corteges that stretch for miles, include at least one police cruiser from every jurisdiction within a thousand miles, and cause traffic jams throughout the region.

If we are gonna ahve large convoys for fallen police officers, then i want to start seeing some for every soldier thatdies in Iraq. This bocott is total BS

Well, I don't want to sound cold, but I totally support the letter. They lost money because of something that they had no control over. They were just asking that the ridiculous false alarm fines be waived. Those fines are BS anyway and just another way that the department extorts money from businesses.

Cops are a waste to begin with. It is all about raising money. They are a bunch of hypocrites and I feel no sympathy for them. If they actually followed the laws that they enforce, maybe I would, but they don't. These incidents never get reported, because of interdepartment courtesy, but it happens frequently.

It sounds like some of the people criticizing the Police Department, specifically "Ghoul" need to spend a little more time on the facts, and less time watching movies or tv shows depicting police officers in a negative light. As far as being charged for the false alarms being BS, you as a taxpayer (unless you are as ignorant as you sound, and don't pay taxes) go to pay for the additional staffing the PD has had to put on the road to go to these false alarms. Every time an alarm goes off, not one, but two officers are sent, as a standard because the alarm is saying there is a break-in or robbery. The business are given a certain number of false alarms that they are not charged for, before they start being charged, to not only spur them to get the problem fixed, so that the false alarms stop happening, and wasting the departments time, but to assist in paying for the additional staffing having to be brought on to attend these constant "BS" as you like to put it, calls. Because they don't have a choice to not show up to an alarm, no matter how many times it goes off falsely, cause the one time they don't, and it is for real...even you should be able to figure out what would happen then.
Secondly, as far as Cops not following their own laws, it sounds like as I mentioned earlier, you are either watching too much TV, or, I'll give you a bit of credit here, have had a bad experience with an officer in the past. I will be the first to admit that there are "bad eggs" in any profession, or anywhere in life, whether it is in the church, education, law enforcement, business field, and those "bad eggs" do not, and should not represent the entire line of work. You obviously know very little about the department, or field of work or you would know that in addition to being expected to follow the laws the enforce, they are also have much stricter punishments for breaking them than your average citizen that they protect. If you get caught breaking the law, you may have to pay a fine, go to court, etc, but chances are you will not loose your job, be demoted, or have your pay docked. They are expected and held to a higher standard, that, from your comments, you would never be able to stand up to. I truly hope that you never find yourself in a situation that requires you to need the protection or assistance of your PD, or Sheriffs Dept, depending on where you live, but if you do, I hope that you will change your tune and treat them with the same respect that they will deal with you...because they have no choice. That is their job.