
I probably didn’t need the gum from State Vitamin. I definitely did not need the Mad Magazine paperbacks from Zayre. And yeah, the nearest doors were probably locked.
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Cops. Whacha gonna do when they come for you>
Let’s suppose you went to a bar and had that dastardly second beer. Let’s say that after repeating this process 157 times that night, you were stupid enough to drive. And got caught. And arrested. This is what Arizona cops will do to you.
Read more "Cops Suck"Oakland Cops Have a Spy Tool So Secret They Can’t Discuss It – Deadline Detroit. …Undersheriff Michael McCabe tells The News: “Hailstorm helps us capture fugitives from the law, people wanted for murder and rape” and can be used only with a search warrant. He said the federal Homeland Security Act bars him from discussing Hailstorm, but […]
Read more "Freedom Is Slavery"Previously, I argued that publicity portended the death of Hookers and Squirrels the “Motorsports gathering” (née Cars and Coffee) in Scottsdale. Me, as an avowed hater of the city and idealized lifestyle of Scottsdale, fully expected that the city would take notice of this completely Constitutional gathering and start whining about “event” permits and other bureaucratic […]
Read more "Things you learn by listening"The fine folks who turned cars and coffee into Hookers and Squirrels “the motorsports gathering” are a couple of steps ahead of our prediction model the fire chief was also present, and because of the size and sheer number of cars present many people are insisting on parking in the fire lanes. The fire chief […]
Read more "Evidently"are doomed to repeat it. Sometimes, so are the people who remember it. I got my start behind the wheel in a parking lot, at one point with a ginormous floaty Lincoln. Never on the street – escalation is bad, mmkay? Then more lots, and then finally on the road with Dad. So too with […]
Read more "Those who forget history…"About a month ago, we noticed some newspaper attention for a car show we go to every month. Concurrently, the “usual suspects” (whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean) changed the name of this thing from “Cars and Coffee” to “Scottsdale Motorsports Gathering.” The new name seemed a bit pretentious; the media coverage portended […]
Read more "Eat the Rich: We Called It"Man shoots friend trying to prevent him from driving drunk – Autoblog. The Huffington Post reports the drunkard was attempting to leave the bar after an evening of heavy drinking when his friend, Java Bowling III (yes, really), attempted to take his keys to prevent him from driving home drunk. Good friend, right? Well, as things […]
Read more "This was not on the DUI part of traffic school"I probably didn’t need the gum from State Vitamin. I definitely did not need the Mad Magazine paperbacks from Zayre. And yeah, the nearest doors were probably locked.
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Watch out for that tree… Phoenix Man With Weed in Pocket Walks Head-First Into Tree for Saddest Arrest of 2013. Phoenix police officers watched as Melton hit his head on the tree, and apparently thought it was so bad that they stopped to make sure Melton was okay. Police asked for Melton’s name and date of […]
Read more "George, George, George of the Jungle"The U.S. Department of Transportation recently announced “a bold set of targeted interventions to put the country on a course to eliminate alcohol-impaired driving crashes.” Basically, this means persuading or coercing states, over time, to towards 0.0 as the allowable BAC to drive. The NTSB claims that: Today, investigators cited research that showed that although […]
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