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A cop’s take on the news
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Drama is alive and well. Here are some recent headlines…
Police shut down Canton clinic run by fake doctors.
Arrested were Miguel Valez and Raul Valez for running a medical clinic even though they had no medical training or had spent any time at a Holiday Inn Express.
One sibling posed as a doctor and even performed surgeries. The other, according to police, filled prescriptions. Cops began to get complaints from patients who said the doctors didn’t seem to know much about illnesses for several reasons among them the fact nobody ever got better. Detectives said they suspected the prescriptions were fake because you could actually read them.
Kesting denies visiting voodoo priestess
Cobb Commissioner Annette Kesting was accused by a woman in South Carolina of writing two checks, totaling $3,000, that were returned for insufficient funds, in an attempt of securing some voodoo mojo stuff against Woody Thompson, who beat Kesting in the Disctrict 4 runoff.
According to George Ann Mills, voodoo priestess, Kesting gave her a photo of Thompson and asked if Mills could give him cancer or send him off to a car accident. Mills reportedly refused saying she didn’t want Thompson’s blood on her hands but did offer to make trouble for him to make people see who he really was. Kesting denies all this but Mills seemed to know a lot and have a lot of info such as her cell phone number and a Moneygram number she said Kesting sent to cover part of the amount of the checks.
Kesting and her lawyer said she never spoke to her or anyone else in South Carolina. Whether or not you believe in voodoo, this related story is interesting:
Annette Kesting called a press conference and announced that when she awoke this morning she discovered she had been turned into a Four-Toed Hedgehog.
The Holy Hook Up
Bishop Thomas Weeks is going ahead with plans for his reality show “The Holy Hook Up: Who Will Be the Next Mrs. Weeks.” The show will document his search for a new love as he performs his daily duties as leader of an international ministry. Critics lauded the show as “This year’s best new comedy.” Weeks commented: “Seriously—it’s not a comedy.”
David Duchovny checks out of sex addiction rehab
Actor David Duchovny apparently is all better after checking himself into a clinic because of his addition to sex. Says lawyer Stanton Stein: “David has successfully completed his rehabilitation and is out of rehab and will be starting a movie soon.” Inside sources said Duchovny now has “absolutely no interest in sex” after watching previews of “Holy Hook Up.”
Comments
By bamaconnie
October 14, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
Hey Steve, Did you make this stuff up? Or have you just been eating weird mushrooms?
By Lt. Steve
October 14, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this
Well….mostly true.
By Fred
October 14, 2008 9:26 PM | Link to this
bamaconnie. Do you live under a rock or are you just butt stupid? Wait, you are from Bama so never mind, forget the first question. Everything Steve wrote came from AJC headlines. You go figure it out. Wait, you can’t, you are from bama……….. I feel like a dog chasing it’s tail………
i think i like the weeks thing the best. Praise Jesus and pass the p***. He got Creflo Dollar and THE BISHOP Eddie Long beat in the “can you believe the balls’ department. those two are still trying to figure out how they can cash in on this…………..
By Analchord
October 15, 2008 6:12 AM | Link to this
I’m trying to figure out which law got disrespected here.
By Dixie
October 15, 2008 6:50 AM | Link to this
analchord - Is it the law of Scruples?
By PinkoNeoConLibertarian
October 15, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this
If eating weird mushrooms (seems redundant) would give me the imagination that Lt. Rose displays in his writing I want to know where I can get some and if they’re legal! :)
By gadyke
October 15, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
Steve - Great stuff as usual Dixie - I’m thinking law of common sense
By Taylor
October 15, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
I didn’t know Yoda was a cop: “Arrested were Miguel Valez and Raul Valez for running a medical clinic”
Also, those mushrooms aren’t legal and they wouldn’t give you the “imagination” this Lt. “displays.” Those mushrooms can unearth predisposed personality disorders.
Anyways, it doesn’t take much imagination to cherry pick weird stories from the AJC over the past week, and then come up with a one line zinger to end it all…a show about Bishop Weeks looking for love is pretty easy fodder for jokes. A cop’s view on the news? More like a-guy-who-needs-to-fill-200-words-before-deadline-and-does-so-by-barely-concealing-his-plagiarism-from-his-own-publication’s view if you ask me.
By PinkoNeoConLibertarian
October 15, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
Fortunately nobody did “ask you” your opinion of his writing style. Hey look! I can “” too! :)
By Taylor
October 15, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this
Pink, I was trying to help you out by responding to your question about mushrooms. I used quotation marks where appropriate, as those words came directly from your post. No harm intended to you. And I wasn’t critizing anybody’s writing style, more like the good Lt.’s writing sources and topics…and, to be honest, for no other reason than I was a little bored.
I wish he would give us the real view from a cop, about stories like the first one, where a crime was committed and the police solved the problem, instead of mindless pop culture stories about sex addiction and voodoo priestesses. Tell me the cop’s view on…say, what the NY Times reported on: that metropolitan crime statistics trend upward during an economic downturn. Should people be more wary? Or, would he oppose the State Legislature discussing decriminilization of small amounts of marijuana or allowing the sale of alcohol on Sunday? Or… really, any topic where a different, new perspective would enhance a dialog.
Do you understand what I’m saying? I read the Lt.’s articles to gain a better understanding of relevant current events from a law enforcement official’s persepctive, not to read rehashed blurbs on pop-culture distractions!
By PinkoNeoConLibertarian
October 15, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this
No worries.
I read this blog for a humorous take. My g/f is a retired LEO and all I get from her is the detailed analysis of this type of thing. She spent her entire career (15 years) in a squad car and she has absolutely no sense of humor when it comes to blotter reports, etc. :(
All that being said, some of Lt. Rose’s non-cop postings are pretty funny to me. hehe.
Since I hate regular mushrooms I’m pretty sure the weird ones would not be included on my list for ingestion anytime soon. LOL.
Cheers!
By Taylor
October 15, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
For a good police blotter related laugh, Pinko, you should check out the Creative Loafing Blotter. I’m sure you already do, but it is by far much more chuckle-inducing than even the most hilarious aside posted here. Also, most of what I wrote before was BS, like most of what I end up typing. I could care less what his views are, I just think it’s stupid to write about those kind of froofy (for lack of a real word) stories that pop up everywhere else on a blog that’s supposed to be about a policeman. I would, however, be interested in Lt. Steve’s answer to the questions I posited in an earlier posting. Lt. Steve’s postings are entertaining, I must say, and I don’t mean to offend him, but I probably already have. (Sorry, I really don’t mean to undermine your grammar, style, word choice, sources or stories that much, it just comes out here, I guess, Steve…)
By Dixie
October 15, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this
I too read the article in the Times. There was a similar one in the Chicago Tribune. The saddest part is that many of these people would never commit crimes under normal circumstances.
There should be a way to get the criminals to select only the Bush voters as targets. Those of us who tried to avoid this mess should be granted immunity.
By islander
October 15, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
dang dixie i liked you up until that last post - i see you also drank the kool aid…
By Dixie
October 15, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
Don’t take it personally. I step on everyones toes at some point. If it makes you feel better - they reciprocate.
By Dixie
October 15, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this
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(and that’s 18 year old single malt scotch)
Thank you.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 15, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this
I think Creative Loafing is going out of business, so I guess the blotter is gone. View from the cop will be my only fix from now on.
By bamaconnie
October 16, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this
Hi Fred and all the other readers who cannot recognize teasing. I really DO believe Steve’s stories are true. Lighten up and enjoy life a little. If you have ever watched Jerry Springer or Maury’s shows you know there are some strange folks living in this country. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we are kooks.
By Stone
October 17, 2008 6:51 AM | Link to this
Good advice bamaconnie. Some people should really take a chill pill or at least save their angry rants for elsewhere. This is supposed to be a fun/carefree blog. Time after time it seems the same people post negative, demeaning posts complete with name calling and insults. It reveals their insecurity and the deep seeded anger in their lives. Definite emotional issues at play.
I hope everyone here has a great weekend. Life is good, appreciate it.
By gadyke
October 17, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Steve, what’s your take on the guy with 36 convictions?
By Dixie
October 17, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
All this slow, gentle rain is going to make pulling weeds tomorrow alot easier!
By bamaconnie
October 17, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this
Hi Stone, Nice to know there are some folks who ‘get it’ when being teased. Fred must have been dumped by a gal from Alabama to have so much ill towards a fellow Southener. And Officer Steve; I enjoy reading your funny crime stories much better than the vicious crimes we are subjected to in the papers and on TV.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 17, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
Who knows he might have been dumped by a guy from Alabama to have so much ill towards a fellow southerner. Just teasein’ Fred, just teasein’.
By Fred
October 17, 2008 7:50 PM | Link to this
bamaconnie: there was nothing in your post to suggest teasing, but I will concede the point just for manners if nothing else. Also note that druggie Stone has an ax to grind with me and I with him. I particularly do NOT like ignorant, ill bred, trailer trash, to call me a “racist” in their drug induced rants because I use the same terms “people of color” use. Fair is fair. Also, unlike his weak a*, I WILL be direct and address the person at hand, and not be a “kittycat” (don’t think i can say p*** here) and be allegorical as Stoned was. I’m not a passive aggressive p***. I however find it amusing that you zeroed in on me from his ramblings. Are you a “real’ person or just another manifestation of his multiple ID’s because he lacks the stones to post as himself?
Dixie: I am saddened by your wish of violence on others that hold a different political view than you hold. I think that is THE major problem in this Country today. Intolerance. If they ain’t a Republican/Democrat (inter change the terms as needed) then screw them, they should be raped, robbed or murdered. While I echo what I perceive to be your displeasure in the current administration, and like you did not vote for President Bush (didn’t vote for sKerry last time either, there were other choices), I can’t say that I support your violent attitude towards his supporters. Sorry, here we have to agree to disagree. Democrats are not entirely right, Republicans are not entirely right. There needs to be some meetings of the minds and some compromise, not whole scale slaughter upon those who disagree with us. I believe I will have to part company with you on the violence towards ‘pubs.
Taylor: I agree. I would rather see somethings of more substance, but you have to understand something. There are only so many times you can express your views on “issues.” Lt. Steve has done so many times. How many times can he write a column on how NOT to be a mindless victim? How many times can he give his “view”? His view hasn’t changed in the last year I would suggest, and he has presented his “view” many times and virtually every criminal type of behavior. What would you have him do my brother? Run the same thing every column? I speak from experience, it’s HARD to be “new and original” every day. WHat do YOU do that is new and original each day? Do you ever find yourself repeating things?
I have a suggestion Lt. Steve, (yeah like this would work and you wouldn’t have every nutcase is the world coming out), how about have a sort of QA type of thing? Have folks submit questions about relevant stories and you answer them? Answer some relevant issues such as El Bubba used to bring up from “the view of a cop?” What happened to El Bubba and Cindy anyways, I haven’t seen them post on the few times I’ve read this blog recently.
Sorry about any typos, this is a long post and i’m just too damn lazy to read back and fix then
By Fred
October 17, 2008 7:57 PM | Link to this
Spank: I forgot YOU you rat b******* in that book I just wrote……….
Don’t apologize to me, I know where you are coming from, and I find it entertaining. You are using this blog like it it, and any other blog, were intended to be used. For YOUR amusement. I use it the same way. (Well for MY amusement lol). If I were not amused, I would not come back. I like your schtick, keep it up, and don’t apologize to me I’ll find a good place to get a good payback on you at some point, if I’m clever enough and zing you good. If not? Well that’s my bad isn’t it?
I think you have a total disrespect of the post……… (ok, THAT was stupid)
By "Spank" the monkey
October 17, 2008 9:42 PM | Link to this
Who’s apologizing Fred? Man you are mad at the world aren’t you? Wow! calm down! Did your lithium run out? I use this blog to have fun its obvious you use it to spew your venom at others. Grow up pathetic little man, put down the alcohol and don’t take things so seriously.
By Fred
October 17, 2008 10:07 PM | Link to this
It’s the coke man, not the alcohol. Beer is good to me, it’s that damn coke……………
By Fred
October 17, 2008 10:10 PM | Link to this
No, it’s not the coke OR the beer, it’s the Crank. Or is it the Quaaludes?
no dammit, it’s the crack. Or is it the herion/X shooters I am inhaling?
It’s just too hard to decide……… could I just be crazy?
By 'The Corporal"
October 18, 2008 3:24 AM | Link to this
Man o man Freddy you just fall into it every time. Your such a sap that you are proving everything said about you as true. They say your abusive. They say your insecure. They say all you do is call people names. They say your angry, pathetic, emotionally unstable. How do you reply? Angrily, p** at everyone, tossing insults, calling people names like a jilted school girl who doesn’t get her way, rambling incoherently. It sure sounds like they got you pegged exactly right and its driving you crazy. Its obvious to me you’ve already answered your last question. I love it, I just love it. Piece of advice “my brother”: if you don’t want to be thought of as an emotionally unstable angry white trash drunk than don’t act like one, if you can help it. I dont think you can and I love it.
By Stone
October 18, 2008 7:06 AM | Link to this
Just ignore the poor soul. If you think you’re better than he is and don’t want to grovel in the gutter, just ignore the poor soul. If you want to make him loose his cool (and his marbles), just ignore the poor soul. He calls me a drunk even though I haven’t drank since the mid 90’s, I ignore the poor soul. He claims I’m a “druggie” even though I haven’t gotten high since before the birth of my first child, I ignore the poor soul. He calls me a racist even though I’ve never harmed or talked disparagingly to or about anyone of another race, I ignore the poor soul. He claims I cheat on my wife, even though I’m happily married to a beautiful woman 11 years my junior and wouldn’t dare screw it up by cheating on her. So what do I do? I ignore the poor soul. He’s desperate, insecure, unstable, uneducated, dishonest and boring so really it’s easy to just ignore him.
As long as he refrains from calling black people monkeys and n****, which he has since El Bubba and I called him on it, I’ll ignore the poor soul. I suggest you do so as well.
Everybody have a great weekend, life is good, appreciate it.
By Dixie
October 18, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
Fred - The article Taylor & I commented on was about robberies commited by 1st time criminals trying to save thier houses, children’s ability to stay in college, paying bills, eating, etc. Not rape or murder. I said nothing to that effect. My joke was for the people who had voted against Bush. This country was headed in a foward direction and the Bush voters stopped that. They are the ones who commited the first robberies. A little poke at them is nothing compared to the troubles our whole country is enduring because of them.
On a lighter note.
When y’all read the headline “Cheerleaders drunk at McIntosh High game are suspended” - how many of you guys thought - What’s wrong with drunk cheerleaders? Come on be honest.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 18, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this
Good advice homie! I’ll ignore that loser.
Dixie I’m actually a big fan of drunk cheerleaders and want to volunteer to met out some harsh punishments up to and including spanking those naughty young girls. That way I won’t have to spank the monkey. 18 and over only need to apply, though.
By Joe the Thumber
October 20, 2008 5:54 AM | Link to this
College football weekend blast! I love the Bulldogs, but Tech fans are the most virulent and loyal fans in all of college Gball. I mean Fball. They play hoaxes on Bulldog fans all the time, no matter how innappropriate the gag. One of my inlaws actually locked a Tech plate on my rear bumper. So I received the jeers of Bulldog fans everywhere I went. How do you explain that you’re really a Bulldog when people are chasing you? My house gets AP’d all the time. I mean TP’d. That’s cause I park in my driveway. BTW: My car’s been pelted with a bumper crop of acorns this year and the finish is scarred. Dont tell me squirrels are bulldog fans too. That really T’s me off. I mean P’s me off. No wait, both letters work there.
Nevermind.
By gadyke
October 20, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
Steve…time for a new post…things are gettin’ weird in here.
By Dixie
October 20, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
MOMania has a nice safe post. No nutty criminal headlines (or the responses to those headlines) there. You can check it out at ajc.com Home > Health > MOMania . Lots of good info without the weirdness.
By gadyke
October 20, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this
Safe(in the blog world at least) is boring. I was just fishing for a new article from Lt. Steve. Thanks though!
By Dixie
October 20, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this
100% Agreed
By Joe the Thumber
October 21, 2008 6:01 AM | Link to this
What we are seeing now in the latest round of comments here is a complete and total lack of respect for the blog.
By "Spank" the monkey
October 21, 2008 6:29 AM | Link to this
Analchorus is back!
By Dixie
October 21, 2008 6:39 AM | Link to this
And there it is - just as I started to hope that we’d make it through 1 post without that comment or parallel variables. Silly me.
By Dixie
October 21, 2008 7:16 AM | Link to this
Y’all should check out this cool article - Make sure you click on the pictures
http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/homeandgarden/stories/2008/10/20/lawn_scrabble.html
By The Truth about cops
October 21, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
Maybe we should use the money that these local government fundraisers, er, sorry, “valiant officers”, rip off of working people to fund the next big economy bailout?
Maybe tax cops every couple of hours when they stop by Wendy’s to pound a few burgers?! How much money is being wasted on the down-comforter sized uniforms for these sows?
By Okay, Deal.
October 21, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
Gentlemen, GENTLEMEN! Lets not deride one another nor question our collective patriotism. Let’s be more like the G7 countries who shake hands and nod in agreement even though they’d rather deep six each other.
But there is one issue that needs 2B resolved in this debate: Is Joe the Plumber 4real? We must find out whether there is any possible connection between him and the Keating Five, the Gang of Four, the Three Stooges, the DoubleMint Twins, and the single bullet theory.
We must know the truth in order to determine if Obama is really Osama with mickey mouse ears, like Cubby who used similar ears to trick us all into believing that he could play the drums.
I dont think it’s an exageration to say that the future of our country depends on Joe the Plumber’s credibility. Rose, you’re a journalist as much as Joe is a plumber. You can come out from behind the eight ball with me if you write a professional report on Joe the Plumber’s connection to all those aforementioned terror groups and historical boobytraps.
It’s up 2U, steve rose. We’re counting on you.
‘muff said.
By Mark
October 22, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this
This whole blog reminds me of the movie “idiocracy”.