9 Responses to “Photo of the Day”

1. #1 |  Edmund Dantes |  June 3rd, 2009 at 7:56 am

   Seriously have we raised a group of cops that are so afraid of their shadows that they need to tase great grandma? If you can’t subdue a 70+ year old woman without resorting to a taser, you don’t belong on the force.

   via hullabaloo
   A great-grandmother from the Hill Country has taken on legal representation after being tasered and jailed for resisting arrest.

   Last Monday, 72-year-old Kathryn Winkfein was driving home to Granite Schoals after her bi-weekly shopping trip to Austin when she was pulled over by a Travis County Constable deputy. According to authorities, she’d been doing 60 down a 45-mph construction zone on Highway 71 near Bee Creek.

   The officer wrote out a ticket to Winkfein and asked her to sign the stub, explaining that her signature wasn’t an admission of guilt, but rather a promise to show up for a future court appearance. Winkfein, allegedly belligerent over the matter, refused to sign and asked the officer to take her to jail.

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2. #2 |  Edmund Dantes |  June 3rd, 2009 at 7:57 am

   Link didn’t work. I always forget which html tagging works here.

   http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/shocking-grandma-by-digby-great.html

3. #3 |  B |  June 3rd, 2009 at 8:27 am

   Radley, I enjoy your photos immensely, but I think this is my favorite so far. And I don’t even like farms.

4. #4 |  Marta Rose |  June 3rd, 2009 at 8:39 am

   i’ll never stop missing the landscape, sigh. most everything else i don’t miss, but the subtle beauty of indiana’s landscape (and the smell of cornfields!) will always feel like home.

5. #5 |  Matt |  June 3rd, 2009 at 8:56 am

   I like the composition, too, with the lines of the fence in the foreground seeming to parallel the line of trees in the background. Nice one.

6. #6 |  Tokin42 |  June 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 am

   It’s a great view, unless you’re a teenager whose family thought it would be great to move away from a metro area to….farm country. When my family forcibly relocated me from a downtown metro area to Radleys home county I kinda freaked. Everyone had on seed company and John Deere hats. I had zero idea who the hell John Deere was, I thought it was some hillbilly band.

7. #7 |  Marta Rose |  June 3rd, 2009 at 9:51 am

   @Tokin42: my parents were lefty intellectuals who left academia and moved to farm country a little north and west of where you and radley lived — near lafayette. it was some *serious* culture shock!

8. #8 |  Jet |  June 3rd, 2009 at 7:35 pm

   I love love love the Indiana photos. I’m a Hoosier transplanted to FL and I miss the look and smell of farm country in Indiana terribly.

   (Yes, even the dead skunks and the “fertilizer”!)

9. #9 |  Tokin42 |  June 4th, 2009 at 6:41 am

   #7

   That’s almost amish country, I don’t think I’d have been able to survive.

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