Journal mcgrew's Journal: False Arrest 7
So I'm sitting on my porch swing with the car radio going, listening to Mike's blues show on WQNA and drinking a Pepsi, but Pepsi mixes with the blues like oil mixes with water, especially when you have a touch of the blues already. So I decided to go to Felber's and listen to the car radio out back in the beer garden. I would expect a beer garden to grow beer, or at least hops or something, but all that's growing there is a partly grown fence, a couple of already harvested picnic tables and a couple of horseshoe pits.
I don't know why I had a touch of the blues, as it's been quiet since I got tired of the ladies' shenanigans. Mybe it was the History channel. They'd had a show about the black plague.
I switched to Discovery when MythBusters came on, and they "busted" a couple of "myths" that I didn't think were adequately busted.
One was a Civil War steam powered gun. Their flaw, I think, was using two water heaters to provide the steam, rather than biolers. The gun they built, from plans from the Civil War, worked but didn't -- the dead pig they shot at had some broken bones, but no lethal injuries. It seems that if the pressure had been higher, they could have torn a few holes in the pig.
I forget what the other one was. That one seemed to me to be an unplausable myth, but I thought they didn't bust it good enough; there seemed to me to be problems with the methodology.
They did the Chinese Water Torture, which was confirmed, but after my vitrectomy I could have told them that you wouldn't even need water for the water torture to work. All you need to do is immobilize someone, especially if you have their head clamped down.
So I go in Felber's and there's a tall, thin young construction worker talking, a couple years younger than thirty. He's wearing a Dead Kennedys T shirt and talking about "fags".
"So anyway, my budddy says there's a kegger down the street and it looks like there's some women there, so we go on down. This one chick with rectangles under her eyes has her arm around me, and I say 'you look like a dude'.
"So she says 'that's because I am!' I went off and started pounding him. My buddies pulled me off and got me out of there, and one of them got arrested for three hate crime felonies and went to jail!
"So I called the district attorney and talked to one of the assistants and said 'man, he didn't do it. It was me; he pulled me off of him. You should put me in jail and let him out.
"The guy says 'can't, we already got him locked up, we can't arrest you. Ten years ago we'd have shook your hand, but things have changed. The DA is gay...'
"So my buddy is sitting in jail for something I did and they won't let him out or arrest me for it!"
I got my beer and went outside, shaking my head in wonder.
Water torture (Score:2)
I think their conclusion was that the water did not really have much effect.
This makes sense. After all, if Chinese Water Torture were so effective, why would the CIA bother with waterboarding? I'm thinking you wouldn't have the Senate up in arms over dripping water on somebody's head.
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After all, if Chinese Water Torture were so effective, why would the CIA bother with waterboarding?
Most likely because they feel waterboarding gives results faster.
Tyrants these days... they have no subtlety!
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If he really wants to set things right, he ought to talk to his friend's defense attorney.
His friend's "attorney" is probably a public defender. If the rich had to use public defenders like the poor and lower middle classes do, you'd have a lot more rich prisoners.
Mythbusters... pah... (Score:2)
Otherwise too, Discovery is plagued by reality show virus.
I am thinking about getting rid of cable. But winter is coming.
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