- From the “Get A Rope” Department – An on-line gamer was recently ‘swatted’ while broadcasting from his home. Swatting is the practice by which a false police report is called in, causing the police to send armed people to storm the home or business of the victim. In this instance, a report of a murder and threats to kill police were called in, and the hijinks were visible to anyone who was watching the victim’s video stream. Nothing says family entertainment like sending people with rifles to mess with a gamer’s flow. Words like “attempted murder” came to mind as I read this.
- From the “Sins of the Mother” Department – A four-year-old boy was kicked out of his school after his mother complained on-line about the school not notifying her about picture day. Apparently the mother had agreed to not “sow discord” somewhere in the avalanche of paperwork that parents sign at the beginning of the school year, and she called into question the intelligence of the school’s personnel in her post. You know, you can sow more than discord if you’re going to get kicked out anyway. Just saying.
- From the “Corinthian Leather” Department – A woman in London was surprised when she opened the trunk of her new car to discover an 8 foot boa constrictor. The former owner claims that he lost the reptile, but had searched the car thoroughly. He says that the new owner can trust in him that no other large reptiles are loose in the car. The snake in question appears to be unharmed, and will be driving against the Stig on the next season of Top Gear.
- From the “Cold Feet” Department – A man in Connecticut gets the DaddyBear’s Den Golden Schwanz Award for 2014 after having his father tell his British fiance that he had committed suicide. It seems that the young man didn’t have the guts to break up with the young lady, and figured it was easier to fake his own death rather than make that call. Now, I’ve been in some relationships that I desperately wanted to get out of, but I’ve never been so desperate that I’ve asked someone to tell the other party that I took my own life.
- From the “Criminal Mastermind” Department – Geologists from the outside world are being allowed to investigate and study a semi-dormant volcano on the Chinese / North Korean border. Reports are that the volcano is rumbling a bit, but that might be linked to the secret submarine and missile launch base in the mountain’s crater. Scientists have discovered a network of underground tunnels, where the DPRK’s leadership have stashed super weapons and caches of stolen gold bullion. Kim Jong Un, leader of the Hermit Kingdom, deflected questions about the mountain as he sat on his throne, stroking a white long-haired cat and squinting through his monocle. No word yet on the contents of the massive chamber that was broken into during earlier excavations or the status of the team that found it, although legends of the soul of Kim Il Sung wandering the side of the mountain persist.
- From the “Miffed Terrier” Department – President Emeritus Obama, taking a break from his summer holiday, has jetted off to Estonia to try to bolster relations with NATO members who share a border with Russia. Mr. Obama promised to defend Estonia and other small European countries, just as soon as they complete new links-style courses for ‘maneuvers’. In related news, Vice President Biden has been sighted in the Balkans reassuring confused Serb and Croat peasants that the United States will stand by its commitment to NATO.
- From the “All Rights Are Important Rights” Department – A black politician was arrested recently after police tried to stop him for putting leaflets on cars during a political rally. The leaflets are reported to have detailed civil rights information, and the officers arrested the man after he asked them to tell him what law he was breaking after they objected to his activity. Now, I’m sure that this gentleman and I would not see eye to eye on a lot of issues, but the fact that an agent of the state decided that defying orders to stop a legal and constitutionally protected activity was grounds to handcuff someone and drive them around town before taking them to jail raises my hackles. Things like this should not happen in the United States, and we owe it to ourselves and every other citizen to stand up and fight when they do. I hope he sues the police department over this, and if he needs donations to fund such a suit, he’ll get a bit of money from me.
- From the “Bad Things” Department – A Chicago police commander has been charged after it was alleged that he put the barrel of his sidearm into the mouth of a suspect and held an electric stun gun against the man’s genitals. It’s a good sign that prosecutors and police leadership in Chicago are letting this see the light of day. Maybe there’s some progress being made after all.
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 4, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/09/04/news-roundup-224/
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Geodkyt
/ September 4, 2014About the only charge I can see for that guy distrubuting voting rights leaflets would be “littering” — which is a _summons_ offense (like a parking ticket) at worst, and only if one of the property owners actually complains, AFAIK.
It’s possible (although, IMHO, very unlikely) that, in the process of getting ready to write the citation this guy got so beligerant as to justify cuffing him, at which point his resistance would become “resisting arrest”. But that wouldn’t excuse the tour about town, which, if true, sounds an awful lot like intimidation in order to infringe his civil rights under color of law to me.
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daddybear71
/ September 4, 2014Pretty close to my opinion.
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