LOL "Confusion Over Romney Puppet"

[wgadget]

I had to LOL at this story (center):

http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2012/8/26/deputies_rnc_protest.html

[WhistlinDave]

This is funny on multiple levels... Romney puppet... LOL

[Lucille]

This is funny on multiple levels... Romney puppet... LOL

It really is...


Deputy: "I got to have the sticks."
Protestor: "No, sir. We actually measured them exactly within the code."
Deputy: "Okay, there's one of two options. I can take the sticks or people can go to jail. I don't want to do that."

A Tampa police captain took over, measured the sticks and determined that they were legal.

On the exchange between the deputy and protestor, Chief Castor said "there was just a little bit of confusion on it. Whether we should or shouldn't allow those in here and then the Captain made the decision. The right decision."

Community organizer Kelly Benjamin agreed with Chief Castor.

"We have the up-most respect for the police. They're just doing their jobs,” said Kelly Benjamin, FL Consumer Action Network. “It was a misunderstanding. I'm glad it was resolved. The puppet was well within the code, so there should be no problems."

I was going to snark about how this is what LE is wasting its time on, but hey! They're not shooting dogs, and people in their yards who "startle" them so, compared to that, I guess making sure puppets are up to code is worthwhile!

[Occam's Banana]

FTA:


Deputy: "I got to have the sticks."
Protestor: "No, sir. We actually measured them exactly within the code."
Deputy: "Okay, there's one of two options. I can take the sticks or people can go to jail. I don't want to do that."

"We have the up-most respect for the police. They're just doing their jobs,” said Kelly Benjamin, FL Consumer Action Network. “It was a misunderstanding. I'm glad it was resolved. The puppet was well within the code, so there should be no problems."
Whew! That was a close one! Think of all the bloody mayhem that would surely have ensued had these puppet sticks not been "within the code."

I, for one, welcome our new Stick Nazi overlords!

Seriously, though ... there is a stick code - an actual code governing the permissible length of sticks.

And there are lots of people like Kelly Benjamin who are just fine with that.

We are so screwed ...

[Anti Federalist]

3 Felonies a Day.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb57886/muppet/images/8/82/Newsman.jpg

[QuickZ06]

3 Felonies a Day.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb57886/muppet/images/8/82/Newsman.jpg

YES!

[1000-points-of-fright]

http://www.dailyplunge.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Guy_Smiley.jpg

[LibertyEagle]

Ha ha. Pretty funny. I wish they had shown a picture of it.

[Tod]

Deputy: "I got to have the sticks."
Protestor: "No, sir. We actually measured them exactly within the code."
Deputy: "Okay, there's one of two options. I can take the sticks or people can go to jail. I don't want to do that."

A Tampa police captain took over, measured the sticks and determined that they were legal.

On the exchange between the deputy and protestor, Chief Castor said "there was just a little bit of confusion on it. Whether we should or shouldn't allow those in here and then the Captain made the decision. The right decision."

Community organizer Kelly Benjamin agreed with Chief Castor.

"We have the up-most respect for the police. They're just doing their jobs,” said Kelly Benjamin, FL Consumer Action Network. “It was a misunderstanding. I'm glad it was resolved. The puppet was well within the code, so there should be no problems."






BBBbbbuuuuuZZZZZzzz!!! Epic fail. It is NOT the job of the police to threaten to jail people who are breaking no laws. When are people going to stop cutting these clowns so much slack? And wtf is with a law that states how long a stick can be????

[shane77m]

Obama might have been arrested for having a big stick.

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120813/OPINION02/208130307/Wielding-big-stick-troubling?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Home|s

[Acala]

Talk softly and carry a . . . stick that is within the legally-defined parameters.

[Anti Federalist]

http://www.dailyplunge.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Guy_Smiley.jpg

ROFL - THAT was the Mitt Muppet I was looking for.

Couldn't remember his name.

ROFL - Guy "Mitt" Smiley!