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Quote of the Day – Tam (12/19/2011)

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And you know what? When the world started treating me like an adult, I found out I liked spinach just fine. As long as nobody was standing over me making me eat the stuff, because you still ain’t the boss of me.

Tam – Eat Your Spinach

[And that’s the truth right there.  Seriously, there was a pile of stuff that as hard as my parents tried, I refused to eat it.  I refused so hard that even to this day my mom thinks I am as picky as I was as a kid.

You tell me what to do, I will do the exact opposite.  

I’m reminded of a story my buddy told me from the navy.  Out going CO of the boat had a fantastic crew with very little in the way of discipline problems.  A new CO came in and restructured liberty and the overall way he was treating his men.  In the ends the new CO was treating his new men as children.  His discipline problems went through the roof.  The moral of the story, if you treat people like children they will behave as such.

No one has any business telling me what is best for me, doubly so if they have the ability to steal from and kill me at gun point and get away with it.  -B] 

SSCC #213 – Beaumont, TX

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A Beaumont police officer accused of leaking confidential information is retiring from the force.

Well maybe it wasn’t really that bad, they did suspend him with pay during the investigation.

Sources tell Fox 4 that Officer Eugene Wilson released information that compromised a federal drug case.

Well at least this leak didn’t result in anyone being killed or injured, but he’s retiring at the end of the month and no charges are being filed.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 213: John Doe

Because who cares if you destroy a case investigating something currently against the law.  The laws are just there to create an artificial market anyway.

*As always if you find the name, contact me.

SSCC #212 – Seabrook

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A former Seabrook police sergeant was sentenced to 18 months’ probation yesterday after being found guilty by Newburyport District Court Judge Peter Doyle for drunken driving following a multi-car crash on North End Boulevard in Salisbury on July 31.

So a DUI and the cause of an accident.  I guess 18 months probation is reasonable right?

Mark F. Preston, 51, of 815 Lafayette Road, Seabrook, was also sentenced
to 18 months’ probation for leaving the scene of personal injury,
avoiding the potential of up to two years in jail. Those charged with
drunken driving for the first time are not often sent to jail.

Oh how nice, he fled the scene of the accident and then they added this final icing to the cake.

O’Connell said the leaving the scene of personal injury charge was
generally continued for 18 months, meaning that as long as he adheres to
the condition of his probation, the charge will be dismissed. A third
charge for marked lanes violation was dropped.

Oh how nice, as long as he obeys his probation the worst of the charges will be dismissed.  Oh wait, there’s more!

Days after his arrest, Preston resigned from the force, according to
Seabrook town officials. But Preston, through a union representative
from the New England Police Benevolent Society, disputed the town’s
claim that Preston resigned. Instead, Preston had informed the town he
was going to retire, thus protecting his pension fund and his
certification as a police officer, according to the union
representative.

I don’t know if he was successful in altering his resignation, but this whole incident stinks to high heaven with an innocent civilian caught in the middle.  Unsurprisingly he was a state rep for a while.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 212: Mark F. Preston

 Because when you’re a corrupt cop and a politician, a criminal record is a requirement.

Guns, Not Just for 2 Legged Varmints

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This is why you carry your guns, even if you’re not worried about varmints of the 2 legged variety.

The Sierra Vista Police Department, assisting the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office, and a witness to the incident confirm that the woman was walking her dog in the area of Risner Boulevard and East Central Avenue when she was attacked by no fewer than three dogs.

This has a better ending than it could have otherwise.  People were there attempting to help, but it took someone arriving with a firearm before the attack was stopped.

Gathered around the woman and her dog were several people attempting to fight off a brown boxer and white pit bull, as well as another unidentified brown dog, he said.

“There were like eight people there trying to get these dogs off her,” he said. “By the time I got there, (the dogs) were focused on the victim’s dog, which looked like a heeler.”

Corcoran said he aimed his 45-caliber handgun at the brown dog and fired, hitting the dog, which ran off along with another dog

It took a firearm to actually stop the attack.  As Tam
said
, “If you don’t have your own pistol, you may have to wait the rest of your life for the police to bring theirs.”  Thankfully for this woman she didn’t have to wait for the police, she just had to wait for a neighbor down the street.  So please, carry your guns people, you could just as easily save the life of someone else as well as your own.  And that predatory varmint may be of the 4 legged variety, not always the 2 legged type.

Quick, Say Something Funny – VC 118

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118 – Quick, Say Something Funny
is up.

As usual there was drinking involved and much was covered involving current events this time.  From the TSA, open carry and the 2AF, and we even go find out what the hell we’re talking about.  Enjoy, laugh, learn, and be disturbed.

Vicious Circle – You only will want to gouge your eyes out if you click on all the links.

SSCC Honorable Mention – Madison (12/17/2011)

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A Madison police officer was sentenced to six years in state prison today for soliciting a nude photo from an investigator posing as a 13-year-old girl online, the state Attorney General’s Office said in a news release.

Ex cop and a child molester in prison, he’s going to have a rough ride but I was disappointed until I also saw this.

The 25-year veteran of the Madison police department forfeited his job and must register as a sex offender. He will also be barred from future public jobs.

So initially I was thinking Accountabilibuddable except it appears he can retain his public pension after he gets out of prison.  He needs to be squashed with such force that he looks like a bug on a windshield.  He’s being punished but not squashed so into the honorable mention it goes.

State Sponsored Criminal: James N. Haspel

I’ve got nothing for this one.

SSCC #211 – Gulfport MI

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A police department spokesman has confirmed a citizen complaint that an officer shot a pit bull, chained in its yard, while narcotics officers executed a search warrant on 20th Street Monday afternoon.

See, evidently this cop felt that confinement wasn’t enough for his personal safety.  As always they shot the dog, properly restrained or not.  Why is this a criminal count though?  Well had anyone else done this it would be classified as animal cruelty given the dog was restrained and as such no reasonable person would have a reason to fear for their life.  Not to mention this little fact.

Turner said she was visiting her mother’s home and she and her 3-year-old daughter were about three feet from the dog when an officer aimed his gun at the Spook, a 3-year-old dog the family has had since he was a puppy.

Sounds like the officer was bored and wanted to shock and awe.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 211:  John Doe

Because shooting dogs is what you do when you want to kill something and when it’s chained it’s like shooting fish in a barrel since no justification is required.