Comments on: The Stupidity Continues

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:38:05 +0000

Dum vs. Keener — does it get any better than that?

By: ross

ross — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:36:41 +0000

Why don’t you name (and shame) the prosecutor in question (ideally with phone number, email, and office address disclosure)?

By: David

David — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:27:12 +0000

Pam,

That wounds depend on how he applied the Heimlich.

By: pam

pam — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:38:50 +0000

okay, so the parent signs a permission slip for the child to be on the bus but the parent doesn’t have permission to be on the bus. Right ??

By: pam

pam — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:30:32 +0000

what if the sex offender saved the child from choking would he/she still be a danger to society?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:43:29 +0000

The prosecutor is a fucking retard. I want to know who it is so I can send a campaign donation to anyone who will take it on.

The information you seek is right here in the comments.

By: Monica

Monica — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:37:33 +0000

The prosecutor is a fucking retard. I want to know who it is so I can send a campaign donation to anyone who will take it on.

By: JS

JS — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:53:55 +0000

Yea that’s another good one FTP!

By: primus

primus — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:39:34 +0000

Actually, they should find the DA guilty of wasting the court’s time, which I believe is a no-no for lawyers.

By: John

John — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:27:25 +0000

The jury needs to tell both the judge and the DA that they will not find this person guilty of any crime — I suggest they do so at the end of the trial with a NOT GUILTY verdict!

Then they should charge the arresting officer with dereliction of duty and tell him/her to go find some real criminals.

By: Goober

Goober — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:17:19 +0000

You are expected to allow some barely above minimum wage state lackey to save your choking son now or else you will go to jail if you step in. Seriously?

I guess i will be in jail soon if wanting to protect my daughter is a crime.

By: GaryM

GaryM — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:30:59 +0000

This is a familiar pattern. Wave some boogyman like “terrorists” and “sex offenders,” to justify grabbing tighter and tighter control over people. There isn’t even a comprehensible purpose to it, just power for its own sake.

By: Thanks For The Nut Punch Radley | Hoogly Boogly

Thanks For The Nut Punch Radley | Hoogly Boogly — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:08:55 +0000

[...] at The Agitator you’ll find this little gem where a mother was charged with a misdemeanor for illegally boarding a school bus because she [...]

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:03:42 +0000

So let me get this straight.

Helicopter moms addicted to paranoia force us to remove monkey bars, swings, and merry-go-rounds from playgrounds is *bad*. It’s an example of foolish people overreacting to perceived dangers and making things worse for everyone.

But moms who panic at the sight of their child asleep, shove their way into a crowded schoolbus at their first chance, scream curses at the driver, rush down the aisle, grab the kid and drag him off the bus…that’s *okay*, because hey, the kid might have been in trouble. And trying to get the bus driver fired afterwards, well, that’s okay too, because hey! Might have been in trouble! Lying about it in court afterwards, making stuff up, well, y’know, might have been in trouble! Extremism in the defense of your child is no vice, right?

By: James J.B.

James J.B. — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:43:42 +0000

Cyto – disagree.

The Mother was protecting her son. If some chomosome deficient, minimum wage bus driver tried to get in my way when I am saving my son, he’d be on his back. A little profanity would have been the least of his worries. I, too, would have been a bit steamed and as a taxpayer, would have called the bus company too. The driver was out of line.

The dicks here are the bus company and the prosecutor. I would respond to their infractions as I said in post #26.

Sorry. There is a good guy and a bad guy here. This one isn’t grey.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:21:58 +0000

I am really starting to dig Have Gun–Will Travel on Netflix. It is cheesy and simplistic, but as TV shows go it has some pretty good writing (Gene Rodenberry, Sam Peckinpaw, etc.). I liked the episode of the young sheriff who decided to impose the Phillidelphia municipal code on some frontier Wyoming town. Paladin knew his dad so he goes to try to help out. Paladin has some great lines about laws that do not reflect the views of the community are tyrany and how if you exclude guns from law abiding folks, only criminals will have guns.

Anyway, this story reminded me of that.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:18:11 +0000

This is why we absoultey need juries.

God, what a lack of common sense. And when does a school bus company get to decide prosecutorial discretion?

By: FTP

FTP — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:31:30 +0000

#52
Or, perhaps, Billy Budd.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:14:37 +0000

#48 | Cyto

well said.

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:33:56 +0000

#48: Thanks for pointing that out. It seems that maybe–JUST MAYBE–if you treat people right they’ll go easy on you, whereas if you’re jerks to them then they’ll be jerks right back.