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I should remember that I never ever want to read open comments on any post that takes a position like "racism = bad & stupid". That way I won't read people saying Hitler was a leftist politically because it was the National SOCIALIST party...
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Yeah, zebras are always snubbing me and shit and don't get me started on how mean pangolians can be not to mention WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH?
Yeah, zebras are always snubbing me and shit and don't get me started on how mean pangolians can be not to mention WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH?
Not a happy night clerk
Apr. 3rd, 2009 09:50 pmWoke up in a bad mood. Had a dream that a group was running a vampire LARP in my hotel without any kind of permission. Hell, they had fucking DEALER TABLES in the hallways (yeah that wouldn't logically work but still). And as we (for some reason Josh worked with me) tried to get them out, they kept acting all butt-hurt and annoyed about being forced to go and the fact that I ended up losing my shit and just yelling at them for being stupid...
So yeah, woke up feeling angry and pissed off and have managed to downgrade that to general grumpiness. Now I go into work to deal with bikers...
*sigh*
So yeah, woke up feeling angry and pissed off and have managed to downgrade that to general grumpiness. Now I go into work to deal with bikers...
*sigh*
*Eye Twitch*
Dec. 21st, 2008 01:57 pmPeople who utterly sucked at their job still given large sums of money. Look heres the deal. If you were an executive at a company that had to get a giant government hand-out to keep from COLLAPSING THE FUCKING ECONOMY then I have an idea what you "earned" for the year. Nothing. No salary, no stock options, no bonuses. NOTHING. Those are rewards meant as incentives for doing a job. A job you FAILED to do. *mutter mutter* First against the wall. *mutter mutter*
What the fuck Texas?
Dec. 19th, 2008 03:35 pmIt was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn's home in Galveston. She was busy preparing her children for school the next day, so she asked her 12-year-old daughter, Dymond, to pop outside and turn the switch back on.
As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van drove up and three men jumped out rushing toward her. One of them grabbed her saying, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me."
Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." One of the men covered her mouth. Two of the men beat her about the face and throat.
As it turned out, the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers who had been called to the area regarding three white prostitutes soliciting a white man and a black drug dealer.
All this is according to a lawsuit filed in Galveston federal court by Milburn against the officers. The lawsuit alleges that the officers thought Dymond, an African-American, was a hooker due to the "tight shorts" she was wearing, despite not fitting the racial description of any of the female suspects. The police went to the wrong house, two blocks away from the area of the reported illegal activity, Milburn's attorney, Anthony Griffin, tells Hair Balls.
After the incident, Dymond was hospitalized and suffered black eyes as well as throat and ear drum injuries.
Three weeks later, according to the lawsuit, police went to Dymond's school, where she was an honor student, and arrested her for assaulting a public servant. Griffin says the allegations stem from when Dymond fought back against the three men who were trying to take her from her home. The case went to trial, but the judge declared it a mistrial on the first day, says Griffin. The new trial is set for February.
"I think we'll be okay," says Griffin. "I don't think a jury will find a 12-year-old girl guilty who's just sitting outside her house. Any 12-year-old attacked by three men and told that she's a prostitute is going to scream and yell for Daddy and hit back and do whatever she can. She's scared to death."
Since the incident more than two years ago, Dymond regularly suffers nightmares in which police officers are raping and beating her and cutting off her fingers, according to the lawsuit.
Griffin says he expects to enter mediation with the officers in early 2009 to resolve the lawsuit.
We've got calls in to the officers' lawyer; we'll let you know if we hear something.
Update: This is from the officers' lawyer, William Helfand:
Both the daughter and the father were arrested for assaulting a peace officer. "The father basically attacked police officers as they were trying to take the daughter into custody after she ran off."
Also, "The city has investigated the matter and found that the conduct of the police officers was appropriate under the circumstances," Helfand says. "It's unfortunate that sometimes police officers have to use force against people who are using force against them. And the evidence will show that both these folks violated the law and forcefully resisted arrest."
As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van drove up and three men jumped out rushing toward her. One of them grabbed her saying, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me."
Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." One of the men covered her mouth. Two of the men beat her about the face and throat.
As it turned out, the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers who had been called to the area regarding three white prostitutes soliciting a white man and a black drug dealer.
All this is according to a lawsuit filed in Galveston federal court by Milburn against the officers. The lawsuit alleges that the officers thought Dymond, an African-American, was a hooker due to the "tight shorts" she was wearing, despite not fitting the racial description of any of the female suspects. The police went to the wrong house, two blocks away from the area of the reported illegal activity, Milburn's attorney, Anthony Griffin, tells Hair Balls.
After the incident, Dymond was hospitalized and suffered black eyes as well as throat and ear drum injuries.
Three weeks later, according to the lawsuit, police went to Dymond's school, where she was an honor student, and arrested her for assaulting a public servant. Griffin says the allegations stem from when Dymond fought back against the three men who were trying to take her from her home. The case went to trial, but the judge declared it a mistrial on the first day, says Griffin. The new trial is set for February.
"I think we'll be okay," says Griffin. "I don't think a jury will find a 12-year-old girl guilty who's just sitting outside her house. Any 12-year-old attacked by three men and told that she's a prostitute is going to scream and yell for Daddy and hit back and do whatever she can. She's scared to death."
Since the incident more than two years ago, Dymond regularly suffers nightmares in which police officers are raping and beating her and cutting off her fingers, according to the lawsuit.
Griffin says he expects to enter mediation with the officers in early 2009 to resolve the lawsuit.
We've got calls in to the officers' lawyer; we'll let you know if we hear something.
Update: This is from the officers' lawyer, William Helfand:
Both the daughter and the father were arrested for assaulting a peace officer. "The father basically attacked police officers as they were trying to take the daughter into custody after she ran off."
Also, "The city has investigated the matter and found that the conduct of the police officers was appropriate under the circumstances," Helfand says. "It's unfortunate that sometimes police officers have to use force against people who are using force against them. And the evidence will show that both these folks violated the law and forcefully resisted arrest."
Urge to kill RISING
May. 24th, 2007 02:36 amIts the comments section that gets me the most...
There are days I really just want to be able to track people from the internet down ala Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. Though less to deliver beatings, then to make sure they stop wasting MY oxygen...
There are days I really just want to be able to track people from the internet down ala Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. Though less to deliver beatings, then to make sure they stop wasting MY oxygen...
