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I’d think at the very least the man will be charged because his dog injured the cop.
Most likely it will be an attempted murder charge.
Good lord. Babies are ugly.
From The Secret:
“At that point, in what I consider to be a miraculous moment, my cell mate Jim Norton informed me that he knew about the Marcus situation and that he had something that could solve my problems.”
Jim Norton the comedian? LOL. A buddy of mine went to high school with him. Said he was a crackup back then. Said one time he asked a lady cashier at a supermarket if they had any rim-job flavored ice cream. Of course, she had to get on the intercom and find out.
The sad thing with the iranian scandal video is that the woman will likely be villified and jailed/killed while the cleric will be chastised and shuffled around to keep doing what he’s been doing but with more care in future.
I like the “Well, this just shows how dangerous our jobs are” line in the story about the shot dog and cop. Hello asswipes: it’s dangerous because you’re MAKING it that way! Who shot something? Your own guys!
Oh, for the day that news organizations climb out of their permanent locations smooching up the cops’ butts.
Wow, they want to shoot the dog so much that they will even shoot each other to do it.
Agree with #1 – they’ll get around to charging the guy with attempted murder (or at least assault of a police officer) eventually on the logic that the agent wouldn’t have been shot had the raid not occurred.
So drug raids have turned into circular firing squads?
Cynical In CA, I noticed the Jim Norton reference as well. The writer must be an Opie and Anthony fan (Norton is third mic on the show, for those that don’t know).
Great stuff.
Cop shoots a DEA agent AND the dog lives? Expect a new police training seminar: “Kill the dog, not each other.”
Jesus, dude. Thanks for reminding me how intensely disturbing babies are. I’ll probably end up punching one out of sheer terror. And then in comes SWAT…
Based on my extensive legal knowledge* if they showed he was resisting the raid in an attempt to cover up a crime and if that is a felony. In some states if someone is killed in the commission of a felony that is considered murder. So since the cop didn’t die it is attempted murder. Or they could show that the dog was committing assault and the man was an accomplice, then he could be charged. Or if we take on a premise from a great legal scholar** that any war is a crime and this was part of the war on drugs, then they could all be charged with attempted murder!
More seriously, in those states where someone can be charged for something an accomplice does in the course of a crime: Could this apply to wrong door raids? At least theoretically they should be able to bring charges of breaking and entering since the police didn’t have a warrant. In some of the more egregious cases a serious argument could be made for negligence.
Best comment on the Amazon review: “Got shiv. Shipped fast and works well. A+++++ Will buy again.”
* I’ve seen almost every episode of original Law & Order
** Ernest Hemmingway
Ralph Boswell says:
Got shiv. Shipped fast and works well. A+++++ Will buy again.
LMAO That is the best laugh I have had in weeks! Guess I should buy the book.
When you get to the link for “Cop shoots dog during drug raid”, make sure u scroll down and check out the link for “Officer Allegedly Engaged In Cow Sex Act”. See, not all cops r violent towards animals.
http://cbs3.com/local/officer.robert.melia.2.706410.html
And he’s so bad at it that it’s counted as cruelty.
The dog is expected to be OK.
Good news
the cow didn’t resist, so she didn’t get shot…
The border between Mexico and the US is fluid. There is no set line. I’ve spent a great deal of time in Mexicali and Calexico. Do you know that the Border Patrol office is actually about 100 feet inside the United States? That means there’s about 100 feet of US Territory that’s inside Mexico.
Same goes for the Texas border. The Rio Grande shifts. There are tiny islets of the United States on the Mexican side and vice versa.
So, to say that the Feds are planning to invade Mexican territory is a little bit of a stretch. Mexican police lose their way and end up on the US side all the time.
“Friendly Fire” has got to be one of oddest euphemisms ever conceived.
Ack, spoiler in the Wire link, if like me, you haven’t seen season 5 yet.
#2
How about we shove your head through an 8-inch pipe and see how good you look?
//Could this apply to wrong door raids? At least theoretically they should be able to bring charges of breaking and entering since the police didn’t have a warrant. In some of the more egregious cases a serious argument could be made for negligence.//
If a cop breaks into someone’s home without a reasonable belief that such action is justified by a warrant or exigent circumstances, the cop commits burglary and/or robbery, depending upon what he does once inside. A cop who participates in a raid at an address that differs from the warrant is unlikely to have a reasonable belief that his action is justified (I can’t imagine any reason a jury would regard such a belief as reasonable, but theoretically it could).
Of course, given the total lack of interest in prosecuting badge-wearing criminals, the fact that police actions constitute crimes probably doesn’t matter much.
RE: DEA Raid in Philly
“The dog is expected to be OK”
Well, that’s good news for a change. And if I were the dog, I would pursue a wrongful injury suit. Lawyer up ya fluffy bastard!
Secret:
“At age 36, I found myself in a medium security prison serving 3-5 years for destruction of government property and public intoxication. This was stiff punishment for drunkenly defecating in a mailbox but as the judge pointed out, this was my third conviction for the exact same crime. ”
I am still trying to figure out the mechanics of shitting in a mailbox. But I can understand drunken peer pressure: “You remember that time you shit in that mailbox? I bet you cant do it again.”
on the doggicide:
“…agents were attempting to apprehend a suspect for drug charges…”
“….the drug suspect was taken into custody. Investigators said he has not been charged with any wrongdoing yet, but he does have a lengthy rap sheet.”
not charged YET = we’ll think of something
lengthy rap sheet = guilty, he had to be doing something wrong
If the original reason for apprehension was drug charges why wasn’t he charged on the spot?
Karma happens.
Yeah, they don’t turn cute until about an hour after birth. Until then, they look like lizards.
As Bill Cosby notes, they change color five times!
That said, I must add that *my* babies were beautiful from the moment I pushed them from my body. And no, it wasn’t hormones. It was the beauty of Finally! I have my body back! Beautiful!
The dog will be charged with assaulting a Federal agent because it allowed the bullet to pass through its body instead of sucking it up and dealing with it
That link to the secret might have been one of the funniest damn things I have ever read in my entire life. I’m more tempted to believe it was a brilliant hoax than reality.
The dog is a fiendish criminal mastermind (meaning, smarter than a DEA agent) who tricked them into forming a circular firing squad.
I’m glad that the dog will be okay. However, these drug raids are out of control. Let’s pray that Ryan Frederick is found not guilty this month. Perhaps that will send a strong message to law enforcement that these Gestapo tactics are not going to be tolerated anymore.
That’ll teach people to have dogs that aren’t big enough to take the bullet and stop it! Seriously, what was that criminal scumbag thinking by having a dog whose body mass couldn’t stop a simple handgun round?
Click on his name and read his other reviews they are quite clever…
#14 | claude | January 11th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
“When you get to the link for “Cop shoots dog during drug raid”, make sure u scroll down and check out the link for “Officer Allegedly Engaged In Cow Sex Act”. See, not all cops r violent towards animals.”
You mean the cow consented? If not, that’s rape.
The link to the review for “The Secret” was classic, as were the other reviews that same user wrote for other equally useless Amazon products. I’m curious if the guy works for The Onion, considering the high quality of his satirical writing, the rather eclectic choice of products he chose to satirize, and his reference to Jim Anchower when stating his happiness with the 2 gallon galvanized bucket he purchased.
What would I give to be able to post the pic of me as a teenager urinating on a beached whale in the comment section. Not sure but a lot I suppose.