OWWWW!!
I like the way the woman who came out of the side door (and drew the cops attention, taking him to the wrong spot) just kind of nonchalantly walks away. Especially after almost getting the gate slammed into her...
I can't criticize, though. I got my ass kicked by a baby gate once. Mentally disturbed gentleman gets drunk, chases his family out of the house with a gun, goes upstairs to his bedroom and passes out in the bed. Tactical team responds, verifies that he's passed out in his room, decides to do a stealth (quiet) entry into the house up to the room and arrest him while he's still passed out. All goes according to plan until we get to the top of the stairs, where there's a baby gate across the top step. The guy's bedroom is 20 feet from the top of the stairs. The gate is too high to step over quietly. As the point man, I need to quietly open the gate so the team can pass without waking up the suspect.
Umm... I've never had kids. How's this damn thing work? Lots of prodding, pushing, pinching, and squeezing; along with hand signals (the hand signal for "WTF is taking so long" is identical to the one finger salute) until we finally unscrewed the tension screws holding it against the wall. Successfully apprehended the suspect, but I got a ration of crap from the rest of the team after that. :blink: