You killed the mayor's dog?
 

It seems that the cops are a little too trigger-happy in this case.

It is just what Black people are saying all along.

Well, they were black dogs.

Prince George's County cops have a long and well deserved reputation for being unusually stupid and violent thugs. They are the laughingstock of the DC metropolitan area, and have been for at least a decade.

One example, just off the top of my head: a couple years ago, they had to transfer a suspect to DC for some jurisdictional thing there, and the DC cops didn't show up at the border for the exchange, so they handcuffed the dude to a telephone pole and drove away. Guy spent most of the day handcuffed to the telephone pole in a horrible neighborhood in town before a passerby called 911.

This time, they shot a white mayor's dogs inside his home after improperly executing a search warrant. So it's gotten some attention. The FBI is investigating now.

Not only was the warrant execution bungled, the mayor was never given a complete copy of the warrant, which he is entitled to get. They never showed it to him during the event then sent him a copy missing key pages long after the fact.

Either someone's dropping a lot of balls or someone made a huge mistake and needs time to cover it up.

From what I could tell they never actually had a no-knock warrant.

That's awesome.

We get to cover swatting, no-knocks, dead dogs, and the thin blue line all in one article.

Then, in other news, there's Kwame Kilpatrick. Looks like they need a SWAT team around to throw and hold him.

No recall election or impeachment proceedings YET? Detroit? Detroit, WTF? Do you want a mayor who's dumber than Marion Barry?

[edit to add] Sure looks like they do, all things considered...

That is a spectacle.

I used to know a Prince George's County cop.
He was a dick. :cop:

So I guess it's a big deal when it happens to the mayor, but it's ok when it happens to John Q. Citizen. AKA John Q Public.

They came to my house because they got the wrong address once. Apparently they do that all the time, you know, get the wrong address. No one apologized.

This nonsense will be kept under wraps until a Faux News personality goes down in a hail of SWAT fire on live tv. Let them show that on Cops...

PG police are some of the worst out there... I can't speak for effectiveness or for enforcement, but I can speak for attitude. PG cops are, on the whole, COMPLETE douches.

I used to know another PG County cop. He's a bagpiper.

That could replace tasering and waterboarding as a means of coercive interrogation. The brute!

Nah, you just make the interrogatee eat whole haggises until he disgorges what you're after. Or else he gets to liking haggis.

There's much more vigorous discussion about it at http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=741123

Don't you come boasting bout your other vigorous forums here!

Well, it's that or other vigorous things of mine, and that's not something generally discussed in front of ladies.

Just tell me where those ladies are and I'll see 'em off for you. Then we can get ratted and talk filth. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

(oops, not Talk Like a Pirate Day yet is it?)

Hey!! I like bagpipe music.

So do I.

Did you know "When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment," better known as "The Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" fits on the bagpipes if the player just pretends it's written in treble clef not bass?

No, but if you hum a few bars I'll fake it.

Pa- dum- dum

I do have a fair tolerance of bagpipe music, I was just poking fun. :P

Although it did seem a bit odd during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

I love bagpipe music. My mother played it for me from before the time I could walk. Had bagpipes in my wedding.

Fixed that.

Just kidding, I love the pipes.

:D

actually Ran away might have been more acurate.

Hey, it's rumored this is why Scottish regiments were so effective in the charge -- the pipers were deployed in their rear, and were to strike in and play on cue.

And then there's the one about how sometime in the latest Dark Ages the Irish hit upon telling the Scots the pipes were a great musical instrument -- and they've been waiting twelve hundred years now for the Scots to get the joke. :cool:

@Shawnee:
"When a felon's not engaged in his employment/his employment
Or maturing his felonious little plans/little plans
His capacity for innocent enjoyment/-cent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest man's/honest man's

Our feelings we with difficulty smother/-culty smother, when constabulary duty's to be done/to be done
Ah, take one consideration with another/with a-noth-er -- the policeman's lot is not a happy one!"

@ Zen: Seem to remember the Olympic fanfare fits on the pipes. The Kenneth Clark show Civilization's theme song definitely does. Won't even get into Beethoven's Ninth... :cool: which it does with one tweak, a substituted note.

What the ????

????

I'm guessing alcohol. :rolleyes:

or something harder perhaps. I've reread it a couple times and it still makes no sense.

Cool. A third verse -- productions of Pirates of Penzance usually have only the first two, per the Schirmer edition.

We're in rehearsal for it now, so I'll have a certain amount of Gilbert & Sullivan on the brain until about October.

Classicman, reread from post #19. Makes plenty of sense to me, with only some small and fairly obvious leaps to other tangents...

I never doubted that.

So what ever happened to this story. Did it grow legs and run off.