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.
Anti-Liberty
As part of their new campaign to protect America from the looming threat of disabled children, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) forced a four-year-old boy to remove his leg braces which he needs to walk.
Young Ryan Thomas, with his father, Bob, and mother, Leona, were on their way to Walt Disney World for the boy's fourth birthday. Born 16 weeks prematurely, Ryan's ankles are malformed and his legs have low muscle tone. He had only been walking since the previous March. The custom-fitted, hardened plastic leg braces set off the security system.
The screener, clearly not the brighest of lightbulbs, ordered the parents to take the boy's leg braces off. The dumbfounded parents responded that Ryan could not walk without them on his own. Still not getting it, the screener repeated "He'll need to take them off".
Ryan’s mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, but the TSA goon refused even this reasonable request. Fortunately the boy managed to walk through without falling demonstrating that at four years of age, he is ten times the man these TSA morons will ever be.
Meanwhile, mindless terrorist maniacs can sneak explosives onto planes in their pants.
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.
The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan has filed a complaint against a 31-year-old woman in Grand Rapids. According to the complaint the ad "expresses an illegal preference for a Christian roommate, thus excluding people of other faiths." Says Executive Director Nancy Haynes, "It's a violation to make, print or publish a discriminatory statement. There are no exemptions to that."
You read that right! In Michigan, you are not allowed to choose what kind of roommate you'd like to have. You have to take what life gives you or the government will shove it down your throat. This law does not only apply to landlords but simply renters who would have to potentially deal with this roommate on a daily basis.
The case was turned over to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. If the woman is found guilty of having a preference, she could face several hundreds of dollars in fines and “fair housing training so it doesn’t happen again.”
Despite growing opposition, the pig-headed organization intends to pursue this case. Says Haynes, "We want to make sure it doesn't happen again," she said. If there is a God, he's out taking a whiz right now.
Online dating service eHarmony has been forced by the government to create a special website servicing gay and lesbian individuals. The fiasco began when Eric McKinley a whiny gay man from New Jersey sued the website. McKinley for his "troubles" will receive $5000 from the business and a year of free membership.
Never mind that eHarmony is a private business whose prerogative it is to do business with whomever it chooses (and its service being entirely frivolous and far from monopolistic cannot in any way be considered an essential human right). The morons in the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights will force it to service homosexuals even though it may not be the strength or preference of the business owner.
DAG Says: Welcome to America. Instead of being the land of hard work, it has become the land of success through pissing and moaning. We at DAG, then, have plenty to piss and moan about, and we will work hard at doing it!
Matthews, NC - local resident and 87-year old WW2 veteran Neubert Purser, 87, was blindsided by the local government. On the morning of March 5, 2005, Purser opened the local paper to find a 30-day notice from the Town of Matthews condemning his 71-acre farm which he had purchased in 1954. He had already told the town he did not want to sell his property but did not realize that they had the right to seize his property through eminent domain.
The reason for the town's seizure of Purser's land - and quite possibly that of others - is the rapid growth of the population. Matthews has grown from 10,000 residents in 1980 to approximately 30,000 in 2005. In short, because other people started encroaching on his space, the government took it over.
Neubert Purser served on the front line of the Battle of the Bulge in Germany during World War II, and was severely injured when fragments from an exploding shell ripped a 4-by-8 inch gash in his body.
The case was ultimately resolved, sort of, when after a lengthy lawsuit, Purser was offered $4.25 million for the property on which he may live until his death. While this may sound like a lot, the settlement was only reached because Purser had racked up $400,000 in legal fees and the eminent domain clause gave him no leg to stand on.
DAG says: This case is small, however it ought to serve as a warning. The town used its eminent domain clause to secure more public space from a citizen in order to deal with rampant growth. This same legal pathway and justification could be used to seize property when illegal immigrants begin encroaching on towns and cities.
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.
The Washington State Liquor Control Board, i.e. the state monopoly, has some unusual new rules for bars in Washington. Due largely to the shrill whining of hysterical idiots, the Liquor Board has decided that a bar can only display 1600 square inches of brand-based alcohol advertising, about four average sized neon signs' worth. Anything more would encourage children to drink, apparently.
The restrictions do not limit non-brand advertising such as "Cinco de Mayo Drink Specials". More interestingly, they do not affect the massive outdoor beer advertising found at Safeco Field where thousands of children are encouraged on a regular basis to enjoy an ice cold brewski. Of course, those ads are highly lucrative and the stadiums are huge business. Sounds fishy, right? Right.
In Gilbert, AZ, the town code bars religious assemblies in private homes. The Oasis of Truth church began meeting at Paster Joe Sutherland's house in November of 2009 and rotated homes several times per week for Bible study and socializing. The church received a violation notice when a code compliance officer saw a sign advertising Sunday services.
A zoning administrator told the church that Bible studies, church leadership meetings and fellowship activities are not permitted in private homes. This law is barred by the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Tulare, CA. August 6, 2009 - Daniela Earnest was doing what good, enterprising 7-year-olds do: running a lemonade stand to save up money for a trip to Disneyland. Unfortunately, while in better times this would have been perfectly un-newsworthy, the "progressive" and "modern" government of Tulare sent its Blue Goons to shut her operation down. The reason? She didn't have a permit or the proper "improved location".
D.A.G. Says: Government buffoonery and hyperregulation like this are why children sit at home playing video games all day. What child in their right mind would bother venturing out into the dreary surveillance state that is modern America when there is a world of adventure and fun on their TV set?
