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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
View from the cop: Who has the lock on “stupid”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s been kind of slow here.
With the exception of the two Llamas who fell out of the trailer on I-285 Friday, not much has been going on.
By the way, the Llamas are doing well. One had a bloody lip and the other a swollen eye. Some of you may remember about 20 years ago a cattle truck wrecked on I-285 and Roswell Road. Several cattle were killed but a number of them escaped and for weeks ran amok in the Golden Ghetto.
We received dozens of calls from panicked homeowners who found cows in their back yard. “No ma’am. I don’t think the cow will attack. We haven’t had a cow attack in these parts as long as I can remember.”
It was amazing how long cows could remain relatively unnoticed in the suburbs. I don’t really know if we got them all back. They could be living among us now, living their secret lives.
Eight teenagers were arrested in Lakeland, Fla. for beating up a girl and filming it for show on YouTube. They beat the girl unconscious. The victim’s parents said “These Web sites are creating a space for criminal activity, beating, fights.”
“MySpace, MTV’s ‘Jackass,’ they are enticing our children and desensitizing out children. Now, if they create the best shock video, they are the heroes. They think it is top dollar.”
There’s something about the camera that causes dumb people to not only do the dumb things they do but also document those dumb things on video or photos. I guess it’s the least they can do to make the prosecution easier.
The more technology we invent, the dumber some people become. We’re gonna beat up this kid and film it. Then, we’ll send it and then watch it on YouTube…..and then what?
There was no end to the story? Eight kids participated and not one of them went “Hey wait—they might figure out who we are—oh yeah, the girl, you know, the girl we’re beating half to death knows us…..hmmmm, I’m not sure I’m in.”
In VALLEJO, California, a bride and groom spent their wedding night in jail after cops came back on a second complaint of a loud party. The groom got the booyah! (taser) when he got a little too aggressive. He and his cousin bowed up a bit too much. The bride was taken in for being too hammered. It doesn’t sound like the happy couple would have accomplished too much later that night anyway.
In WAXAHACHIE, Texas, a dentist accused of videotaping his female employees in the changing room with a hidden camera pleaded guilty. Steven C. Durbin, also a city commissioner in nearby Ennis, Tex., got five years of community supervision with deferred adjudication in the plea agreement on a state jail felony charge of improper photography or video recording.
As part of the agreement, Durbin, 50, must attend sex offender counseling, although he doesn’t have to register as a sex offender. Turns out his employees found a video camera in the employees changing area. They confronted him about the patients he videoed as well as the poor quality of the video.
These are the kind of people who, if they don’t get it together, will end up with a toilet seat grown to their butts.
