When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he'll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver's arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein.I don't know how else we'd expect a parasite to behave, but is it really blood you want, Darrell?
“I was looking at people's arms and hands, thinking, ‘I could draw from that,'” Dowell said. [More]
I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see this "Only One" crap happening in Idaho. I do wonder how transient Nampa is, and what kind of migration they've had from California...
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My policy is, you draw a little of my blood, and I don't want you to, I'll draw a little of yours. Sorry, that's just our policy.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, The Nampa Police Department.
ReplyDeleteThe "Only Ones" that brought us "Sodomizing By Tazer".
Bob
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There is a III% certainty that this will at some point get exactly the reaction it deserves.
ReplyDeleteI would ask if anyone wants to take bets on what it will be next, but I just don't think we're any match for that mindset.
"Vampire Diaries - LEO Edition"
ReplyDeleteThis was also the subject of the Examiner column I posted last night. I had to re-write it several times to avoid saying what I really think should be done everytime it is tried. And also to keep from using the words "rape" or "Nazi" in the headline.
ReplyDeleteI have no compunction about saying what will happen if such is done to me against my will by force. As a practical matter, I realize that I may not be able to prevent such a thing at a time and place of their choosing assuming they have numerical superiority and can hold me down.
ReplyDeleteSomething they should realize is that they cannot stop me from taking revenge after the fact. Pure and simple revenge. They will need to get in the habit of wearing black armbands and listening to Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. Further, I will be no more selective in the execution of my policy than they are in theirs. So, even the non-inolved officers of the specific incident will have a downside I would rather not supply, but will if I am ever accosted in that manner.
If you have the "right" not to be required to testify against yourself, how can they involuntarily take your bodily fluids to use for the same purpose?
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with Sawders, if it ever happens to me, it'll happen to them.
How long will it be before some "Officer Friendly" puts an air bubble in some innocent motorist's vein and kills him?
ReplyDeleteI know the cops will insist they could never kill anybody that way, but we heard the same reassurances about Tazers, no?
If the person who cuts my hair needs a cosmetology degree and a beautician's license, then by g-d whoever sticks me with a needle to draw blood better have an EMT certificate. You want my blood that bad, you can damned well take me to a hospital and let somebody who knows how do it.
No potential for abuse here [/sarcasm]... Lets see... somebody during a traffic stop doesn't kowtow sufficiently to please some bully with a badge, first thing you know he "detected a distinct smell of alcohol emanating from the car/driver" and wants to do a breathalyzer. Breathalyzer comes up bupkis, like he knew it would, so then he demands the poor schlub's blood- that'll learn 'em to Respect Authoritah.
Sawders is my real name. I use it when warning assholes to back off of me. My DL does not say Straightarrow, and I want to make sure I don't have to send anybody to Hell who didn't have sufficient warning.
ReplyDeleteActually, I would rather never bring harm to another human being, but that ball is in their court. I will never trespass another as an initiating occurrence, but should I be trespassed in the manner suggested by this article, no one on their side of the issue will be safe as long as I breathe.
Idaho Bob, that was Boise's JBT that did that. In fact one of the upper hogs in management refused to file a report of the matter and was put on the shit list for it.
ReplyDeleteNampa has some real JBTs that need to fill their ego. A motorcycle group/club/gang was riding back from an event in SD. The group pulled off the interstate to get gas. They did just that got gas and wanted to get back on the interstate causing no one any problems. To stay together as a group some of the riders blocked traffic so everyone come stay together to get back on the freeway. A few in the back part of the group went through a red light. This had over 40 JBTs and the FBI holding these guys for over two hours for a few red light tickets. The FBI was there for red light tickets which means running a red light is now a federal crime. No arrest came of this because there were no illegal guns or drugs. The Nampa swines knew the group was coming down highway 55 and was headed for the interstate to get back home in OR. The Nampa swines had their AR's out and who knows what else to jack up their ego's.
Nampa is a real shithole and is one of the largest dumps of a town in this state.
I had to go and write on this one as well.
ReplyDeleteI have not yet decided whether the fact that it actually does boggle my imagination, should encourage me that I am not losing my humanity to cynicism, or discourage me that I should expect it as an inevitability from any state apparatus.