28 Responses to “Saturday Links/Open Thread”

1. #1 |  Dave Krueger |  June 13th, 2009 at 3:12 pm

   Just to add one to the list, here is the dash cam video of the EMT guy who was choked by the cop in OK. I guess it’s no wonder the cops didn’t want the dash cam video released.

   What an arrogant, lame-brained, vessel of out-of-control testosterone.

2. #2 |  Dave Krueger |  June 13th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

   Oops. Sorry. This is probably a better link since it contains the entire dash cam video.

   A youtube link without the adverting would be even better.

3. #3 |  Dave Krueger |  June 13th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

   The stupidity exhibited by the British in their photography policy is stunning. Their government must be entirely staffed by people who are absolutely absolutely incapable of questioning any strategy proposed by their peers no matter how idiotic.

   Ours, too, for that matter.

   There must be a special training class for anyone entering government that teaches the best approach to problem solution is to harass people that have absolutely nothing to do with the trouble they’re trying to prevent. It’s just not explainable any other way. Even a single digit IQ wouldn’t generate that degree of ineptitude.

4. #4 |  Dave Krueger |  June 13th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

   Not to diminish my hormonal-centric characterization of the cop (in #1), but to be fair, I believe the ambulance driver either had an emergency and should have had his lights on, or he didn’t, in which case he should have had his lights off and should have yielded to the cop.

5. #5 |  Bob |  June 13th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

   Holy shit! What a major dirtbag!

   So… I understand that Trooper Roadrage was only going to a stolen car report in the fist place… no reason to roll code on that, especially considering there was nothing for him to do when he got there anyway.

   What the fuck was the ambulance driver supposed to do? Instantly drive into a ditch to get out of this asshole’s way? Run into the white car on the right? Oh! I know, he should pull over as soon as he can. Which he did.

   This fuckhead probably rolls code to get a donut.

6. #6 |  Bob |  June 13th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

   Also, did you notice he nearly hit the red car as he was driving off? And what was all that static on the radio at the end? Did they modify the audio so we couldn’t hear him screaming and yelling? I can’t believe his radio sounds like that all the time.

   Also, what WAS he doing at the scene of the ‘stolen car report’? He was there for like… 10 seconds. Talked to noone. Got nothing on the radio. Just pulled in, saw the ambulance, and went to git that Sum-bitch!

7. #7 |  Mister DNA |  June 13th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

   Radley now needs to post a link to a gambling site offering odds on whether or not that guy can collect one million hand-drawn giraffes by 2011. I’d put some money down on it not happening.

   According to my math, he needs over 1765 hand-drawn giraffes a day to reach his goal.

   Nevertheless, some of the kids’ drawings are really clever. I like the giraffe on its way to Mars.

8. #8 |  Bob |  June 13th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

   Oh! Oh! This just in!

   The ‘Mystery woman’ riding in Trooper Martin’s car, the one in the car during the entire time… the one the paramedic thought needed medical attention…

   Is Trooper Martin’s wife.

   http://www.kjrh.com/content/news/2viewgc/story/OHP-chief-to-decide-troopers-fate/Myoi7Vffsk28uOg8o_NhXA.cspx

   “honey! I’m gunna go roll code 3 on a stolen car report call! Wanna come? There could be shooting!”

9. #9 |  Bob |  June 13th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

   I wonder if this guy realizes how many hand drawn giraffes that actually is? a million drawings would be a stack… like… 25 stories tall. Not to mention the amount of mail he would have to get.

   50 Quatloos against!

   However… I secretly want him to succeed and am encouraging kids to draw giraffes and send them to him.

10. #10 |  Gonzo |  June 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Oh yeah….Gene Koprowski. Man, I had forgotten about that. Good times.

11. #11 |  Aspasia |  June 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    “British government tells photographers there are some locations where photography isn’t permitted, but won’t say which locations.”

    Yeah, you’ll find out when you’re arrested.

    @DaveKrueger: “Even a single digit IQ wouldn’t generate that degree of ineptitude.”

    No, but a single-digit IQ can get the death penalty in Texas.

    I am totally going to draw that man a giraffe. What a cute goal for the interwebs.

12. #12 |  Bob |  June 13th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    Hmm, I couldn’t find your friend’s book in the Kindle online library, but I got a different one: “Drug Warriors and their Prey”. Gunna start listening to it today.

    The Kindle is awesome. The killer feature for me is it’s ability to read the book to you. It’s not perfect… and if you have something like a programming book… it gets confusing. “PHP 4″ gets converted to something like “Four Philapine Peso”

    But I have a ‘lazy eye’ that makes it hard for me to read for long periods of time. So having it read to me is awesome.

13. #13 |  Robert |  June 13th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    If it’s important enough to test baseball players for steroids, it’s 1000 times more important to test cops.

14. #14 |  freedomfan |  June 13th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    I don’t have anything to add to the discussion of today’s links (though I thought the police soccer team story was telling). But, I checked out Dave’s link to the cop-choking-paramedic story and laughed at the ad in the sidebar. I don’t know that everyone sees the same ads I do (and they change over time), but this colon cleanse ad is what was on the page when I looked at it. The look on that girl’s face is priceless. :)

15. #15 |  Cynical in CA |  June 13th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    I just wanted to comment that I found the soccer league story very well-written.

16. #16 |  Highway |  June 14th, 2009 at 1:24 am

    Thanks for the links, Dave. I had thought that maybe the ambulance had, you know, failed to yield fora while. Not waited to pass all of one car before pulling off the road.

    Officer Roadrage needs to find a new job, one where he will never be put in conflict with other people. He obviously can’t handle it.

17. #17 |  BamBam |  June 14th, 2009 at 2:00 am

    There must be a special training class for anyone entering government that teaches the best approach to problem solution is to harass people that have absolutely nothing to do with the trouble they’re trying to prevent. It’s just not explainable any other way. Even a single digit IQ wouldn’t generate that degree of ineptitude.

    No one can continue to believe that government agents (a more appropriate term than employee) keep doing “stupid things and just don’t get it. It’s far more likely that these actions are intentional and part of a plan at all levels of government. It isn’t being stopped because it doesn’t hurt people enough yet to truly do something about it.

18. #18 |  Dave Krueger |  June 14th, 2009 at 8:05 am

    #16 Highway

    Thanks for the links, Dave. I had thought that maybe the ambulance had, you know, failed to yield fora while. Not waited to pass all of one car before pulling off the road.

    Hell, I didn’t even notice that the ambulance was actually pulling over when the cop passed him until after reading the comments on here and then going back to have a second look.

19. #19 |  Bob |  June 14th, 2009 at 10:21 am

    Yeah, Before seeing the dash cam video, I thought, perhaps the ambulance dallied a bit as well, after all, it wasn’t rolling code… whereas the trooper was. But it’s obvious in the video that he pulled over as soon as possible.

    The Trooper, on the other hand:

    1) Was rolling code on what turned out to be an unneeded call.
    2) Had a freakin’ civilian in the car. This is a no no while rolling code in many places.
    3) Didn’t even check with the officer in charge at the scene of the emergency call to see if he WASN’T needed.
    4) Completely ignored both Paramedic White and the Driver when they told him they were transporting a patient.
    5) Was actually going to take Paramedic White away on arrest RIGHT THERE, instead of allowing them to continue to the hospital. It was at that point that Paramedic White ramped up his protest.
    6) At the earliest possible point, (When Paramedic White was told to go the Trooper’s car so he could be under arrest) he started shoving the Paramedic. Thus escalating it.

    And then… his buddy… Trooper Iker, who was en route (on trooper Martin’s request) to the original ‘emergency’ as well, gets a call from Martin to help him out at the ambulance stop. But… It looks iffy to him… no crashed cars or anything. So he turns off his dash cam!

    And these are the fuckers “Keeping us safe?”

20. #20 |  J sub D |  June 14th, 2009 at 11:29 am

    “There isn’t any reason that Trooper Martin would need to impress his wife with his job duties,” he said. “She’s ridden with him before.”

    Methinks we have a serious lack of adult supervision here.

21. #21 |  J sub D |  June 14th, 2009 at 11:34 am

    If it’s important enough to test baseball players for steroids, it’s 1000 times more important to test cops.

    QFMFT! Let me add -

    If it’s important enough to test the military* for illegal drugs it’s 1000 times more important to test congresscritters and their staff.

    * A sore spot since 1982.

22. #22 |  Bob |  June 14th, 2009 at 11:57 am

    Well, the high speed camera link is back.

    Apparently, you broke it with your gratuitous linking.

    1,000,000 frames per second. Wow. Of course, the drawback is you only get to shoot 100 frames at a fairly low resolution. (That’s 0.1 milliseconds of record time)

    But still. Wow. You can capture for analysis (With careful setup and triggering) that which has never been captured.

    You can actually see the bullet’s rotation slow down as the lead liquifies on impact

23. #23 |  J sub D |  June 14th, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    I finally got to see the cool bullet videos (Thanks for the heads up, Bob).

    I would pay real money to see this technology used on a Hellfire missile impacting a tank.

24. #24 |  Ryan Grim |  June 14th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Hey Bob — There’s a button on the Amazon page you can click on that requests they make the book available on Kindle. If enough people click it, then they do it. (It’s free to click it.)

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470167394/theagitator-20/

    thanks for your interest. And thanks to the agitator readers, like radley said, for helping edit it.

25. #25 |  MDGuy |  June 14th, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Interesting to see that the trooper in the EMT case was responding to a stolen vehicle report. I had been wondering from the beginning what situation could possibly be so urgent as to require the cop to force the ambulance driver to yield but simultaneously be so unimportant that he could ignore it while dishing out the old AUTHORITAH on the EMT. Now I know…

26. #26 |  Oatwhore |  June 14th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    Maximo Colon?

    That’s gotta be a fake name.

27. #27 |  Bob |  June 14th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Hey Bob — There’s a button on the Amazon page you can click on that requests they make the book available on Kindle. If enough people click it, then they do it. (It’s free to click it.)

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470167394/theagitator-20/

    thanks for your interest. And thanks to the agitator readers, like radley said, for helping edit it.

    I so clicked that.

28. #28 |  Jerri Lynn Ward |  June 15th, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    If the Oklahoma trooper was responding to a stolen vehicle report, where is that response on the tape? It looked to me like he was just picking up his wife at the police station.

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