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mark edward marchiafava
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Posted: Thu Sep 4th, 2008 02:10 am |
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For many, many years, I made my appearance at their blood bank every eight weeks.
No more. While sitting IN the blood bank, openly carrying, one of their crack security squad confronted me. "Sir, you can't be in here with a gun !" When I asked if there was a LAW to that effect, she replied in the affirmative. So, I asked for a copy of it. She walked out in the hall, got on her radio, and then came back. Just as I expected, there is NO law, but it's their POLICY. Then I told her for the Lake to ban persons with guns, they are required to post each and every entrance. Well, I'm at the Lake right now, and sure enough, each location is visibly marked.
I called the administrator's office, asked just who is responsible for my security while on their premises. The administrator was quick to volunteer "the city police." When I reminded him they're not even on premises, he added, "and our security force." How funny. A bunch of unarmed misfits are going to protect me from any harm. What a joke.
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northofnowhere
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Posted: Fri Sep 5th, 2008 01:22 am |
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I hope you got your share of nifty toys already from them then! Here in Michigan we cannot carry into a hospital anyways, and the rural area I live in only has two blood drives a year in other locations. I go every 8 weeks as well, and enjoy doing so.
It's nice to see that thier security forces are up on what qualifies as a threat, like a guy doing his duty to his countrymen by donating his own blood regularly to save lives.
Anyone else interested in thier contact information? I sent a nice polite email to them myself as a fellow donator appauled at thier decision.
http://www.ololrmc.com/body.cfm?id=8 for thier contact form
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HungSquirrel
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Posted: Fri Sep 5th, 2008 04:06 am |
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Why in the world would a hospital try to prevent someone from donating lifesaving blood? (If I have understood your post correctly, that is what they are doing.)
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Dustin
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Posted: Fri Sep 5th, 2008 05:13 pm |
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HungSquirrel wrote: Why in the world would a hospital try to prevent someone from donating lifesaving blood? (If I have understood your post correctly, that is what they are doing.)
B/c of the FEAR 
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mark edward marchiafava
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Posted: Fri Sep 5th, 2008 11:16 pm |
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Oh, it gets even BETTER !!! (being sarcastic).
My daughter had her second back surgery there 8 days ago. The wife and I were there for it, left Sunday. Hurricane Gustave wiped out Baton Rouge and SW Mississippi, where we were riding out the storm. We went BACK to OLOL on Tuesday, only to be greeted at the main entrance by, yep, their crack security force, still unarmed.
"Sir, what is your name, why are you here, who are you coming to see, what is their room number?"
To which I replied, "Momar Khadafi, to see my daughter, Michelle Marchiafava, T605."
I had to spell "Momar Khadafi" four times, they never got it right, never caught on he's the leader of Libya.
Sooooooooo, I strolled around the hospital for 3 days wearing a name tag declaring I was the head of a terrorist state in north Africa, NOBODY ever caught on.
Security, LOL...........
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HungSquirrel
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 12:17 am |
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They could have stopped that by asking to see your ID. Of course, I would have been disinclined to acquiesce to such a request, and from what I've read of your posts, so would you. 
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mark edward marchiafava
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 02:56 am |
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You are very astute. There will never come the day when I resort to using government-issue photo ID for identification, which explains why we DRIVE everywhere we go, regardless of how long it takes to get there.
Had they requested ID, the response would have been: " Can you produce a LAW that requires me to ID myself to you?"
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FogRider
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 04:01 am |
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mark edward marchiafava wrote: There will never come the day when I resort to using government-issue photo ID for identification, which explains why we DRIVE everywhere we go, regardless of how long it takes to get there.
I must be missing something. How does not showing an ID make you need to drive?
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rady8um
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 04:08 am |
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FogRider wrote: I must be missing something. How does not showing an ID make you need to drive?
As in..not flying anywhere. I assume.
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XD-GEM
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Posted: Sun Sep 7th, 2008 03:48 am |
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Mr. Khadafy, that is just freaking impressive! LOL!
Hope your daughter is OK.
I rode out the storm in BR at the LPB facility on Perkins Road. We had 100mph winds there. It was supposed to be our fallback site from New Orleans, but we got hit harder in BR than NO.
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mark edward marchiafava
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Posted: Sun Sep 7th, 2008 10:35 am |
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The damage left behind by this one is worse than what Katrina did to BR and SW Mississippi.
Hopefully, the daughter will heal sooner than later.
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XD-GEM
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Posted: Mon Sep 8th, 2008 12:24 am |
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| Yes, the damage reminded me of Andrew. I lived in Broadmoor during Andrew and it dropped a pecan tree on my house. The house wasn't crushed, however, because our swingset caught most of the force. The tree ended up laying on the roof rather gently for something so massive. The insurance guy was so impressed that he added $300 bucks for a new swingset even though the policy didn't actually cover that. He said he'd rather pay for a swingset than a house any day.
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XD-GEM
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 11:35 pm |
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mark edward marchiafava wrote: Then I told her for the Lake to ban persons with guns, they are required to post each and every entrance.
Mark,
Can you tell me what law says this; or is this the result of some court decision? I've searched the Louisiana laws on the state's Legislative website, but can't find a specific law about this.
Thanks.
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mark edward marchiafava
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 02:18 am |
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It is not a matter of law, as such. In other words, if I decided to walk BACK into the Lake, armed, I could be arrested, since I have been told not to come back. YOU, on the other hand, COULD enter, armed. The worst thing they can do is ask you to leave as you are not violating any law that I am aware of.
Since Louisiana Carry (Micah) is obviously the most astute person on this forum concerning up to date "laws," maybe he can confirm if I am missing anything here.
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XD-GEM
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 06:25 pm |
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mark edward marchiafava wrote: It is not a matter of law, as such. In other words, if I decided to walk BACK into the Lake, armed, I could be arrested, since I have been told not to come back. YOU, on the other hand, COULD enter, armed. The worst thing they can do is ask you to leave as you are not violating any law that I am aware of.
Since Louisiana Carry (Micah) is obviously the most astute person on this forum concerning up to date "laws," maybe he can confirm if I am missing anything here.
OK. It's just that this suddenly reminded me of the guy who was arrested at AMC Theaters when they told him the place was posted against guns and told him to leave. He went out, put the gun in the car, and came back. They arrested him. I think the charge would then have been tresspassing because he did not leave when told. AMC Theaters near me all have little "No Gun" signs on all of their doors, so I wondered if there was some statute that I'd missed. Other states have such a statute, but I'll have to ask LA Carry about this.
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mark edward marchiafava
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 07:24 pm |
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Louisiana does have a statute, "remaining on premises after being forbidden."
Question is, does a decal serve as notice to anyone you are forbidden?
Micah?
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