“No one dies a virgin, Life screws us all.”
- Michael J. Trent
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
The idiots here being the judge and the police…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A college student has been given a lesson from a judge after his day in court — don’t correct the police.
Clay Palmer, a student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, honked his car horn when he saw police stop their patrol car, turn on blue flashers to go through a red light and then turn the flashers off. He got a ticket for violating the city noise ordinance.
The charge was reduced to a warning Wednesday when he went before a judge who told him he acted wrongly.
“The horn blowing is not the real problem here, it’s that you were trying to correct the police and they didn’t need correcting,” Judge Russell Bean said.
Palmer left traffic court saying he still believed officers were abusing their authority.
“I see this cop with his blue lights come screeching up beside me and I didn’t know what was going on,” Palmer said. “Before they got to the next light, I could see they turned their blue lights off.”
Palmer said officer Matthew Puglise forced him onto the hood of his car and issued him a ticket for honking the horn when there was no reason.
Puglise said he was helping another officer track down a speeder when Palmer saw him pass through the red light.
Bean said Puglise was right and Palmer was wrong.
“I expect officers to follow the rules like everyone else,” Bean said.
It’s been one heck of a hectic week, but all for the good. In case you didn’t know, and how could you not considering the post below, my son Alessandro was born last Monday. Alex, as we call him, had a little bit of a rough start but has pulled through nicely and is doing really well. He loves to eat and sleep and with each day his appetite is becoming more voracious, which is good. He really is a cute little guy.
A couple years ago my mom and I were having a conversation a couple months before I got married regarding what I wanted in life. She always hinted that she wanted grandchildren and made it known that my dad did as well. My father has cancer, but his treatment is going well, so he’s always worried that he won’t be here for a big event. He was estatic when Alex was born because he finally got to see his grandson. His first grandchild. Bak to the story, I had mentioned to my mom that I didn’t really want kids and could see myself without having children. I never told Kerry that because I knew she wanted kids, but I was determined to go as long as I could without having kids. Fast forward to today and I could kick myself for feeling that way. Granted it’s only been a week, but I couldn’t imagine myself without the little peanut. He’s awesome. Anywho that’s my rant for today…
A koala is sitting up a gum tree smoking a joint when a little lizard walks past and looks up and says “Hey Koala ! what are you doing?”
The koala says: “Smoking a joint, come up and have some.”
So the little lizard climbs up and sits next to the koala and they have a few joints. After a while the little lizard says his mouth is ‘dry’ and is going to get a drink from the river. But the little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river.
A crocodile sees this and swims over to the little lizard and helps him to the side, then asks the little lizard: “What’s the matter with you?”
The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink.
The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into the rain forest, finds the tree where the koala is sitting finishing a joint, and he looks up and says “Hey you!”
So the koala looks down at him and says: “Faaaaarrrrk dude…….how much water did you drink?!!”
So Alex finally arrived today. It was a long night, but it was well worth it. Alex got stuck during delivery and couldn’t make it past Kerry’s pelvis, resulting in a caesarian. All turned out well, but since he was stuck he’s now got a bit of a conehead shape to his head. It’s already started looking normal, but he’ll need a full day or so to get back to normal. He’s a tough little guy and to be honest isn’t fussy at all.
So far, so good. You can see pics of him right here on the site. Just go to Pictures, it’s up above, then click on the Alessandro photo set. I’ll be updating the photo set whenever I get new pics.
