THIS IS TRUE!!
MORON OF THE WEEK #610: A customer in line at a Dairy Queen in St. Louis,
Mo., dropped her purse. It exploded, sending black sequins into the
air; customers could smell gunpowder. No one said a word until she
cried out "I ain't got no gun!", grabbed her shredded purse, and ran.
The store manager wrote down her license number and called police.
Investigators say that indeed it was a gun: a low-quality one that
discharged when it hit the floor. The license led to an unidentified
woman who, police say, was an off-duty police officer. The cop first
denied that she was in the restaurant, then claimed she ran because she
was "under fire," and then finally admitted that the gun discharged in
her purse, but she had thrown it out her car window along the freeway
because she might be "in trouble." She resigned from the police
department. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) ...Total recommended prison time:
30 days for careless handling of a firearm, 90 days for fleeing the
scene of an accident, 1 year for bringing disrepute to the police
department, 5 years for making false statements in a police
investigation, 10 years for ditching the gun unsafely, and 15 years for
using bad grammar in public.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE: Tyrone Burgo, 20, was arrested in Boston, Mass.,
for allegedly selling drugs. Police say it wasn't that he was driving a
car with a license plate from another car that led to his arrest, nor
that he was driving with a suspended license. Rather, they were led to
Burgo because he had advertised his cocaine on the Internet, listing
his real phone number. Officers called, set up a meeting, and arrested
him after he handed over the drugs. (Boston Globe, AP) ...Too bad he
didn't try to figure out what "BPD Det Bureau" was on his Caller-ID
before he agreed to the deal.
MORON OF THE WEEK #610: A customer in line at a Dairy Queen in St. Louis,
Mo., dropped her purse. It exploded, sending black sequins into the
air; customers could smell gunpowder. No one said a word until she
cried out "I ain't got no gun!", grabbed her shredded purse, and ran.
The store manager wrote down her license number and called police.
Investigators say that indeed it was a gun: a low-quality one that
discharged when it hit the floor. The license led to an unidentified
woman who, police say, was an off-duty police officer. The cop first
denied that she was in the restaurant, then claimed she ran because she
was "under fire," and then finally admitted that the gun discharged in
her purse, but she had thrown it out her car window along the freeway
because she might be "in trouble." She resigned from the police
department. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) ...Total recommended prison time:
30 days for careless handling of a firearm, 90 days for fleeing the
scene of an accident, 1 year for bringing disrepute to the police
department, 5 years for making false statements in a police
investigation, 10 years for ditching the gun unsafely, and 15 years for
using bad grammar in public.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE: Tyrone Burgo, 20, was arrested in Boston, Mass.,
for allegedly selling drugs. Police say it wasn't that he was driving a
car with a license plate from another car that led to his arrest, nor
that he was driving with a suspended license. Rather, they were led to
Burgo because he had advertised his cocaine on the Internet, listing
his real phone number. Officers called, set up a meeting, and arrested
him after he handed over the drugs. (Boston Globe, AP) ...Too bad he
didn't try to figure out what "BPD Det Bureau" was on his Caller-ID
before he agreed to the deal.