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Canton Video: Round Two

Seems this isn’t the first time this cop lost his cool. Follow the link, as the video is not embeddable. This suspect had an illegal gun, but this guy still really needs to find another line of work. Police work is not something he’s cut out for.

â€œDonâ€™t (expletive) move. Let me see your (expletive) hands,â€ Harless shouted. â€œIâ€™ll kill every one of you (expletive). Thereâ€™s a (expletive) gun in this car. You (expletive) move, Iâ€™ll shoot you in the head.â€

Harless also threatened to send the suspects â€œto the graveâ€ if they moved, adding, â€œI will shoot you in the face and Iâ€™ll go to sleep tonight.â€

If this officer ever does have to shoot someone, even if it’s legitimately self-defense, the statements appearing in these videos are going to greatly complicate his life unless it’s a cut-and-dry clean shoot, which is not often the case.

I also suggest this guy isn’t too good about controlling the situation. In what universe does a guy have a gun in a car illegally, and you don’t pull him out of the car and cuff him as soon as you realize it? Wouldn’t you at least want to remove the gun? Does he maybe want the suspect to pick up the gun, so he has an excuse? You really have to wonder.

Canton Ohio Council President …

… forgot the first rule of PR is that when you find yourself in a hole, to stop digging:

What your officer did was unconscionable. There’s absolutely no fucking excuses for that video I saw. This guy needs to be raked over the coals. You Sir, no matter what you say, are against the Second Amendment. This guy should not have a council meeting for the next several months that is not inundated with angry gun owners from Ohio. This guy has thrown down, and it’s time to act.

Flat Earthers Have Company

Apparently there’s an insurrectionist branch of the Catholic Church in Chicago that’s pushing the church reject Galileo (again) and embrace a geocentric universe. I’ve always wondered how these folks explain the fact that our space probes managed to sail by the outer planets, taking plenty of pictures, land on Mars, land on Venus, and visit asteroids. All the mathematical calculations for guiding these probes is based on a heliocentric solar system.

This whole gravity thing is a conspiracy by the orthodox science establishment man!

Not Sure How You Miss This

Apparently a body was found in the water at a public swimming pool. This is not unusual, given that drownings happen in pools all the time. What is unusual, and almost unbelievable, is that the body was in there for several days. Apparently while the pool was open:

Police say lifeguards were on duty and people were swimming in the Veterans Memorial pool at Lafayette Park Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and it appears no one noticed the dead body.

I spent a lot of time at the local public pool as a kid, and I’m not sure how, even playing a game of Marco Polo, you’d miss a stiff floating next to you. What about the lifeguards? OK… well, even if your lifeguard is busy smoking dope or flirting with girls, you have a pool man who cleans the pool right? Right?

As of this hour, the entire staff of the Veteran’s Memorial Swimming Pool in Fall River has been placed on administrative leave.

I’d call that a start.

How Will We Fight?

Tam notes a story about a school in the UK reprimanding boys for playing army, and ponders whether folks have really thought this through:

I don’t mean to be alarmist or anything, but little Achmed and little Ivan and little Jianjun are not being taught this. Are we planning on interposing an army of unwilling, soft, toothless creatures between us and them in the future? Is that the game plan?

Personally, I’m counting on an army of killer robots to fight our future wars. What could possibly go wrong?

Now I Won’t Feel Bad For Long Showers

Thanks to Les Jones, I now realize that people in Oregon have completely lost their minds. How many public pools are there in Oregon? Because I can promise you this has happened in just about every one of them:

And not necessarily with a candy bar. There’s a reason this is funny.

Copyright Trolls Get Smacked Down

Clayton Cramer is reporting that our friends at Righthaven have been smacked down by a federal court who has dismissed one of their lawsuits for lack of standing. On top of that, the Court is considering applying sanctions to Righthaven. More from Righthaven Victim’s blog here. Steve Gibson also appeared defiant and petulant in an Interview with Wired, claiming there can now be no doubt about Righthaven’s assignment of those copyrights.

I wish Clayton and others best of luck in getting what’s owed to them back. Righthaven or no, the system is still horribly broken that this kind of shakedown was even possible.

Foundation for the Defense of Some Democratic Values?

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies says they are “dedicated exclusively to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that threaten democracy.” It doesn’t say anything about being an organization dedicated to promoting and defending due process before depriving people constitutional rights. That’s good,Â because it they said that, they’d be hypocrites. I’ll leave it to the readers to decide whether that fundamental principle is among the “democratic values” that this organization claims to defend.

Skeeball is a Skill, Damnit

Tort reform now, damnit.

A San Diego mom has filed a potential class action against Chuck E. Cheeseâ€™s that claims its games are illegal gambling devices.

The federal suit by real-estate agent Denise Keller claims the games are similar to slot machines, the San Diego Union Tribune reports. Children play with tokens that cost 25 cents each, and the machines dispense tickets that can be redeemed for prizes.

California generally bans gambling, but it makes an exception for games of skill. The suit claims the games at Chuck E. Cheeseâ€™s are based mostly on chance and they â€œcreate the same highs and lows experienced by adults who gamble their paychecks or the mortgage payment.â€

This woman apparently missed out on my madly competitive air hockey sessions at Showbiz when I was growing up. What? You think I went easy on my opponent just because she was my grandmother? Puh-lease. And those skeeballs don’t make it up the ramp themselves. Video games are just that – video games. Their versions just dispense tickets. Skillz, witch.

Apparently, the woman dropped the case in federal court late yesterday, but she refiled in California courts. Because apparently she hates fun.

Is it wrong that writing this post makes me think that Friends of NRA needs to introduce a skeeball game into their rotation? It could dispense raffle tickets based on your score. Then it would be a game of chance where your chances are significantly improved by your skill. And I would never leave that game all night long.

Righthaven Hiring High Priced Lawyer

Looks like Righthaven are hiring a 1000 dollar an hour law firm to clean up some of the mess they made. Clayton notes:

Now Righthaven is having to defend itself from exactly the sort of garbage that they relied upon to force quick settlements.

Karma is a bitch.