That takes a spectacular level of incompetence.

Interesetingly, this is also another typical anti-LE karma-grabbing post.

You weren't there. The only information you have is what was in the article, which states that contact was made at several homes in an attempt to locate the phone. You have no clue as to the contents of those contacts or any way of accurately quantifying the competence of the officers involved.

Now, 10 cops for a missing cell phone... you could call that obnoxious -- at the very least! Competence is not an issue here, though.

It's not about him actually being treated unfairly, it's about him feeling as though he has been.

No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

Not sure if my sarcasm detector is broken, but when you go popping a bunch of holes in your body, pay close attention to your marrow's inability to manufacture enough new blood to keep up with gravity's demand of placing your blood all over the floor.

I think my sarcasm detector is busted, though I'm gonna post the above anyway since I put a fair amount of thought into it...

They don't tell you what the qualifications are.

Just a guess, but they're probably not entirely different than the requirements for a TWIC Card, also issued by the TSA to gain access to secure areas such as maritime ports, refineries, and other "sensitive" locations.

I do have a TWIC card. It's always interesting (scary?) when I present the federal credential to a TSA agent at an airport. Although the TWIC card provides no access to airport facilities, it is a valid form of government ID issued by the TSA, Most agents are familiar with it, but one agent, after checking my boarding pass and waving me on asked me "what is this TWIC thing, anyway?"

Security theater!

I wouldn't friend them

I don't use any social networks, but I detected a serious problem when "friend" became a verb...

I can add that IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5 -- released in 2009 -- already had the ability to specify hours of a partial day.

It doesn't. That's why the comment is posted in a discussion about theater ticket prices rather than in one about reruns of Back to the Future on TNT at 1 am.

That's interesting. My OCD requires that I locate the phrase "orders of magnitude" in each thread.

A car analogy is orders of magnitude better than any other kind of analogy. By and large, I don't think the phrase means what people think it means (there's another one).

Potatoes are a lot cheaper and easier to raise than cattle

Excuse me, but have we determined, to any degree of certainty whatsoever, that actual cattle are involved in the production of McDonald's hamburgers?