Myron Cope
Maureen Marsteller says her baby’s first words were a spot-on impression of Myron Cope.
She and her husband, Dan, always listened to Cope’s radio show at dinner. Their first-born son, Doug, did, too. At 8 months old, he didn’t have much choice.
Anyway, the sign-off each night was always the same: “This is Myron Cope … on sports.”
There was always that long, pregnant pause before the last two words. And, one night, little Doug decided to fill in the blank. Maybe his first real words came out more like “on ‘ports,” but those were the first words he managed beyond a babble.
Marsteller shared that story as the last caller on Cope’s last nightly radio show on WTAE radio in 1995. The show had run for 22 years, but she was a first-time caller, and for sharing that precious tale she was awarded the last “Cope-a-nut.”
“Talk about thrilling moments. It does sound bizarre, but that will be a lifetime memory, a memory for our whole family, that we shared.”
A few years after her call to Cope, when her son was still a teenager, they met the man and he remembered the call about the baby’s first words.
Marsteller, principal of Oakland Catholic High School the past six years, was in a doctor’s office in Oakland yesterday when the television in the waiting room announced Cope’s death.
Then she began calling her family.
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Thursday 28 Feb 2008 | admin | Uncategorized
How about do your job? As a former cop, you are supposed to attempt to subdue the suspect and cuff him before you even think of a taser.The kid was on top of the school official. As a short, 5′4″ woman, I could easily have utilized my PPCT training to subdue the suspect. The kid was already in an ideal situation to do such a thing.That’s what your first reaction in such a situation should be and not, “oh, I gotta taser him because I’m can’t remember my training and do my job properly.”
103 in US and Canada actually. This doesn’t take into account the # of police officer’s lives it saved though, or the # of civilians who could have been shot instead.
noone is trying to excuse the 13 year old. attacking your principal is outright stupid in itself, and attacking someone on the ground is wrong. still, using a taser in this situation is excessive force. and yes, the reasonable thing to do would be to go in and ‘manually’ remove and subdue the THIRTEEN year old boy. hell, when was the last time you looked at a thirteen year old? they’re not exactly frighteningly huge and strong.
Well, since the taser is designed to be used instead of a gun, obviously the cop would’ve unloaded a clip on the seventh-grader if he didn’t have a taser.Right?
Not really. He’s right, but he’s just being a jerk. I mean, it’s a frikin kid
I think there should be a website set up with all the names of the assholes using tasers improperly complete with addresses.
They were outlawed because they can literally fracture bones with minimal effort.
I’d like to live in the fantasy world that you live in. But where I live, bad people have guns and other weapons. And they use them. Lethal force is necessary at times.