A 7-year-old child allegedly shot a $5 Nerf-style toy gun in his Hammonton, N.J., school Jan. 18. No one was hurt, but the kid now faces misdemeanor criminal charges. Hammonton Police began an investigation into the “suspicious activity” at the Hammonton Early Childhood Education Center Jan. 18 after school officials alerted them to the incident.
Officials also say that there was no evidence of anyone being threatened. The child's mother told school officials that she didn't know her son brought the toy to school.
Police Buffoonery
Two Long Beach police officers responded to a 911 call from a neighbor reporting an intoxicated man holding a "six shooter" that looked like an antique gun in the 5300 block of East Ocean Avenue. The 35-year-old man was holding a water spigot, not a gun, it turns out.
Some hikers on Mount Washington maintain the very odd tradition of mooning the passing cog train that climbs the mountain. The tradition's origins are unclear, being attributed to a protest against the polluting train or simply because the train was called the "Railway to the Moon". In any case, this bizarre but harmless practice is apparently grounds for bungling government buffoonery.
Following a complaint from whiny crybabies aboard the train, an off-duty state trooper and a ranger dressed in hiking clothes started riding the train. When they spotted some mooners, they stopped the train, produced their badges, and confronted the hikers, issuing them summons to either pay a fine or appear in federal court in Concord.
Lieutenant Major Garvin (his name is really Major) caused a stir when he harassed employees at a Starbucks, threatening poor police response times if they didn't give him free coffee. He was fired but the idiotic arbiter George Mayer called for his reinstatement and full back pay. It doesn't take a genius to see that this flagrant folly could not have a good ending.
Now Garvin has gotten in trouble for parking his cruiser, while off-duty we might add, in a handicapped spot. Garvin's flimsy excuse is that he was running late to referee an AAU basketball tournament and got the OK from security to park in the handicapped spot. Of course, a rent-a-cop's approval does not equal a license to break the law.
In Uniondale, on Long Island, NY, George Grier has been arrested and charged with "reckless endangerment" for defending his home from a gang, potentially the violent and dangerous MS-13. As he was leaving his house to drive his cousin home, he was confronted by a group of five men. He returned to his house to get his wife to call the police. He then returned with an AK-47 which he legally owned, and asked the men to leave. The men did not leave and in fact loudly egged him on, encouraging as many as 20 other thugs to show up on his property.
At this point Grier fired four shots at the ground to scare off these miscreants. These shots alerted the police faster than the wife's phone call apparently because their high-tech "ShotSpotter" technology which can pinpoint the source of gunfire to within 35 feet notified them. Instead of congratulating the man for successfully deterring a hideous crime, the Blue Goons arrested him.
D.A.G. says: Don't you feel so much safer now?
Rural Georgia - Some of the dumbest morons ever to wear a badge were called to a house and ended up misbehaving in ways nobody could have imagined. 57 year-old Janice Wells, a third grade teacher, called the police to report a prowler and two village idiots, Ryan Smith and Tim Murphy, showed up to serve and protect. First came Murphy who pepper sprayed the woman. As she was writhing in agony, Smith showed up, hopped out of his car and began to taser her repeatedly.
"He kept Tasing me and Tasing me. My fingernails are still burned. My leg, back and my butt had a long scar on it for days," says Wells.
D.A.G. says: The two thugs have been fired however they should be in prison for assault and battery.
King County Sheriff's Deputy Paul Schene was terrified. He was fearing for his life because a bratty 15 year old girl kicked her shoe at him while she was in her holding cell. Rather than caging in this violent menace by shutting the cell door, he did what any red-blooded warrior would do: charged into the cell, tackled her, throwing her into the wall for good measure, then proceeded to punch her while she was down. He even needed another officer's help to put her in cuffs. This wuss even claimed he was afraid of being injured by the girl, explaining his actions.
Surely this cowardly act of brutality would result in the immediate firing and imprisonment of the perpetrator, but alas, only half of that came to be. Schene was fired but thanks to not one, but two inept juries, both of which were deadlocked, despite the airtight evidence of the video. The King County prosecutor's office refused to have a third trial, freeing Schene of any criminal charges.
Sealy, TX - A homeowner was arrested for "illegal photography" when a police sergeant followed him into his own home, and he objected and took the cop's photo with his cell phone.
The trouble started when Sealy Police Sgt. Justin Alderete responded to a complaint of loud music coming from his home. In front of the home, Alderete asked Olvera to show identification and as Olvera walked into his house to get it, Alderete followed him in without a warrant.
As Olvera did not believe that Alderete had the authority to enter Olvera's residence, he took a picture of Alderete using his cell phone. Alderete saw a can of beer on a kitchen counter, next to Olvera's wallet, and immediately handcuffed him. While this is perfectly legal, the silly cop decided to administer the bogus charge of "public intoxication" as well as one for "loud music".
As testament to the illigitimacy of Alderete's ridiculous accusations, Olvera was acquitted of all charges in court.
Dearborn, MI cop Cpl. Edward Sanchez had ulterior motives when he seized pot from suspects. He used the plants for his own personal consumption, even baking it into brownies. This proved to be his undoing as he had such a wild trip he and his wife, who had also consumed some, believed they were dying of a marijuana overdose and called 911. Actually, they believed they were already dead.
Sanchez has since resigned. The real question is what kind of training these cops are receiving on drugs and their effects that an officer could believe he's dying of a pot overdose?
Local police in Corpus Christi, TX spent hours laboring to remove up to 400 plants from a city park that they believed to be cannabis. They even referred to it as "one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department's history." In fact, the plants were nothing more than horse mint, a common prairie flower with very little resemblance to the unmistakable cannabis sativa. Only after a battery of chemical tests did the officers determine the plants were not marijuana.
Of course, before you go calling these cops stupid, let's remember the real idiot: the politicians who keep cannabis illegal.
