LesserFollies on 5/9/2007 at 14:44
I think his little sister should should sue HIM for traumatizing her on her birthday, poor thing. Did she ever even get her game? :(
I have stolen page three
scumble on 5/9/2007 at 15:29
yes give it back right now :nono:
Tocky on 6/9/2007 at 02:21
I wouldn't want to discourage reasonable civil disobedience but with all the crap going on in the world this does seem so trivial and now that all has been said it is time for me to veer off on one of my odd tangential stories so hold on to your teacups. Or don't read it. I know I'm strange and can't help it.
About 3 in the morning I awakened to a loud banging. I suppose I missed the knock on the front door because we had been up late with my baby daughters earache. At that time I slept in the nude but have long since quit due to having a daughter about the house.
As I stood there trying to gather myself in the dark bedroom light beams played over my nudeness from two windows. I pulled on some pants and told them to go around front. My daughter was awake and crying again.
I had to produce my ID in order to prove to the narc squad that I wasn't someone named Red whose name and address was on a mailbox a block farther down. They threatened to shoot my dog who was going crazy. I held her because I loved that dog as much as she loved me. They didn't search the house because I made them understand through calmly answering every question the mistake they had made. They left. My wife and I tried to go back to sleep.
But what if I had reached for a gun when I was giving them the impromptu peep show? I wrote a letter to the editor. I cringe now at the bombastic wording but I outlined everything that happened and everything that could have gone wrong. I made suggestions for the future. I wasn't an ass.
I know cops have an awful job. I've talked privately to a friend of mine who is highway patrol (the superior of that peckerhead who bitched me out that I could have gotten in trouble) and listened with sadness at how he found the corpse of a young woman raped with a tree branch and tortured to death, of how, after catching the piece of shit, he complained the cuffs were too tight on the ride to jail. I marvel at good law enforcement and the ability to refrain from killing those who so richly deserve it. Store clerks have it bad? Please.
Pardon me if the guy in your story just seems silly. Over the weekend an EMT friend told of the poor ph level and near inability to find a vein even with a vein light on a 4 year old who drowned while the babysitter partied. Then I come home and read in the paper of a mother who prostituted her 4 year old daughter for drugs to 3 men. I knew one of them. He was that ass who I spun onto his head after he pushed my weaving brother down at a long ago party far from where we should have been. I let him go when he called me a brave little fuck. I should have broken his neck. I'm just wandering and pissed sick of the world just now. Forget it.
Dia on 6/9/2007 at 03:23
I agree with the consensus that the guy acted like an asshole by not showing his receipt to the clerk. But if I'd been the dad behind the wheel, I probably would have kept nudging the car forward till the clerk moved. Or I would have called the police and filed charges against the clerk for harrassment. That clerk definitely stepped over the line.
Imo the cop had no reason to ask for the guy's driver's license. All the cop had to do was check the bag for the receipt to make sure it wasn't stolen and that should have been the end of it; why take it one step further and ask for the guy's license? Sounds like the cop was on some sort of power trip to me. I think sometimes some of them get a little carried away with the fact that they have a badge.
Recently there was a lady in the news who was arrested because she refused to pull over at night for an unmarked squad car (turned out her car just had a burned out tail light). It really was her right not to do so; women are warned every day that if they're not sure the car trying to make them pull over is a legitimate cop, then they should drive to a well lit public place and then pull over. Even though she was well within her rights to do just that and explained to the judge that she was afraid to pull over on a dark road for a vehicle that didn't look like a squad car, she still got a nasty fine and was told that she should have pulled over immediately when she saw the flashing lights.
fett on 6/9/2007 at 03:36
Quote Posted by Tocky
What Tocky said.
I guess that's the other thing that sits a bit wrong with me about this story. The guy is so consumed in his passion to defend civil rights that he'll get arrested over a sales receipt and fuck up his sister's birthday, but I wonder how involved he is with Amnesty, or the One campaign or any other movement/organization that actually fights for the civil rights of people who are being violated in worse ways? I'll bet none. He just strikes me as a 'Comic-book-guy' type who wins big against the minimum wage Circuit City clerk then brags about it in his blog. The fact that he feels the need to *write* about it in his blog speaks volumes (not to mention the fact that he HAS a blog). Get a fucking life.
crunchy on 6/9/2007 at 05:03
The guy is now accepting donations to pay for his legal costs. Anyone going to flip the poor bugger a few notes? :erg:
SubJeff on 6/9/2007 at 06:13
Quote Posted by fett
What fett said
Breaking news: People not allowed to complain about something that is wrong and be taken seriously unless they meet arbitrary "I'm a good guy" set of criteria.
Scots Taffer on 6/9/2007 at 06:35
Oh shit yeah, Tocky. Of course, we can trivialise nearly every situation by the same method you have - there's almost always one more level to go when one-upping the grand human tragedy that is the depthlessness of our own inhumanity.
To be perfectly honest with you, I found this piece and noticed it had generated some discussion elsewhere and since TTLG has been dearth of discussion as of late, I posted it and also threaded along some generic commentary as a sort of Devil's Advocate just to get the ball rolling and allow some "chat" up in this bitch. Not to say that I'm reneging on my stance in this thread, but just to say that I actually don't feel terribly strongly about it and was acting as a strawman for the community, so to speak.
DaveW on 6/9/2007 at 07:09
If this was about a serious issue, then it would actually matter. However much he is "in the right", refusing to show a receipt isn't defending your rights - it's just being difficult. He could've just shown the receipt and avoided screwing up his sister's Birthday.
Ko0K on 6/9/2007 at 07:33
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
...TTLG has been dearth of discussion as of late...
Well, some of us seem to have moved on to other things, and those holding the fort seem to be less motivated than before. Maybe we should bring back the flame wars.
