It is no big deal because the numbers are so low that doubling the number of cops ambushed from 2 to 4 or even 3 to 6 doesn't much matter. Cops are not listed among the top 20 most dangerous occupations and far less dangerous than be a farmer or firefighter, and even less dangerous than garbage collector.
I worked highway maintenance and we did construction where we would break out partial or full depth pavement and patch it with hot asphalt.
I did it all from air hammers to finishing the patch with the lute and even as acting heavy when they were short handed. It was a dangerous job working on highways working with traffic mere feet or even inches from death or serious injury.
I know of one guy who was crippled with third and fourth cervical vertebrae crushed. He was hit by a car.
I asked the guy driving the car what happened? He said, "I just looked away for a minute to tune the radio." I said, "When you were driving past a work crew?" Unbelievably stupid to say the least.
I can recall sitting with his Dad in the ER waiting room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital since they had the spinal unit. He told me, "I could have gotten him a job with any state agency he wanted. But he wanted to work on the highways."
The doctors cut his life expectancy way back. He is likely dead by now since this happened in late 80s. :-/
One time we were on the job site and the asphalt truck had just gotten there. The Foreman was standing on left rear corner of asphalt truck. He bent over to look at something under the truck.
Just then a Stake body truck went by with a 4x4 hanging off the tail. if he hadn't bent over it might have taken his head off.
I was standing next to one of the black guys. I said, "James, did you see that?" He said, "Yep." ;)
What a horrible story -- people are so rotten. Do you have any idea if the perp was punished?
Some ppl love dangeous work, outdoor work, filthy underground work. We're lucky they do :s Richard Burton's family took great pride in their coal- mining. When he told them he was making millions for acting they were totally bumfuzzled -- just had no idea how the profession could ever be lucrative!