Thieves in Your Head

Yesterday my mom called me and frantically told me that her purse was stolen right out of our house. She walked in and set her purse down in the living room, then walked around a corner into the dining room. She heard some noise and thought it was my sister, then came back a bit later to find that the purse was gone!

It would have been the most brazen act of daytime house-breaking I’ve heard of in a long time, except for the fact that she had actually set the purse down in a bedroom somewhere and forgotten about it.

Feliz Navidad

Best wishes to all at this time of year, when it seems fitting to rally round the family and celebrate for whatever reason one can come up with. To celebrate, I’m giving you all two great links to my favorite website, the Smoking Gun. One is to a story about another great interpretation of the meaning of Christmas and another, just a little something for the guys, is a mugshot collection of a bunch of cuties.

I’m doing my best to make the most of the festivities surrounding what we Presbyterians like to call “winter solstice” because next year it’s hopefully going to be much different. Good night now!

An Expert Opinion

My favorite continental LE blog is currently View from the Cop, written by Lt. Steve Rose (Sandy Springs P.D.) for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I sought his opinion on the parking meter theft epidemic slashing through the city of Atlanta, and in classic form, here’s what he had to say:

“It’s a crime and you shouldn’t steal the parking meters. What are you going to do with it anyway? It might look good in the basement bar or maybe you could move it around to various streets for some easy mad-money. Oh well, it’s stealing.”

Thanks, Lou!

‘Tis Better to Get than to Receive

Somebody needs to explain to this woman what the Christmas spirit is really all about. As a child I was taught that Christmas was something special, but the truth is that it’s quite a nuisance, as well as really irritating.

On a side note, if this woman lived by me she would still be nearly $300 short of felony larceny.

Run

I was having a typically brief discussion the other day with my newly-single officemate about police in the United Kingdom and how the majority of street cops over there aren’t authorized to carry firearms. For the record, the ones that are authorized to carry firearms carry as many guns as they can strap to their bodies. All that aside, the rapper Ghostface Killah (born Dennis Coles) poignantly sums up why it’s better when cops have guns. People should respect the police whether they’re armed or not; but when they’re armed, they get the respect no matter what. Without further ado, straight from Staten Island, here’s Ghostface Killah with some lyrics from “Run”:

Run! If you sell drugs in the school zone
Run! If you gettin’ chased with no shoes on
Run! F— that! Run! Cops got guns!
They givin’ out life like bird tons
Run! If you ain’t do s—, you it
That next felony, n—-, it’s like three zip
So, run! Hop fences, jump over benches!
When you see me comin’ get the f— out the entrance!
Run! F— that! Run! Cops got guns! M———!