Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

Every decision in life, business, government and everything else is and must be based at least partly on practicality. Its ludicrous to think that dozens of police officers and cars and ambulances and whatever else should stand by indefinitely while a crazy, sword weielding man decides if or when he might surrender at some point hours or days later when he gets too tired to stand anymore. I don't know what your problem with the police is, but obviously you must have gotten arrested or treated badly by them at some point in your life and this prepesterous argument is one of the results.