Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Children love me, women want me, criminals fear me




“Kids always stop me and ask me to blow the horn for them,” he said, testing the siren for effect. “And the women — I don’t know why, but they love it! I once had a woman pull over her car, get out and ask me if she could ride it. Of course, I had to say no.”

--Yale Daily News interview with the first Yale police officer to ride a police Segway

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Robin: Well, it's no wonder. I mean, she used to shoot at her first husband.

(pause)

Christie's momma: Only his feet, though.

Monday, October 02, 2006

Parenting tips from Catholic Online

"Questions for parents: Have I killed or contemplated taking the life of another?"

Monday, September 18, 2006

Oh, the innocent '50s

On her morning rounds to gather items for the police blotter in the
years before the '57 trials, Kennedy one day happened upon a report of
a "crime against nature" and asked the shift commander what that
meant.

"I honestly thought someone had done something to a tree," Kennedy said.

--from an article detailing a 1950's "purge" of gays in Greensboro, NC

Monday, July 03, 2006

That last bit is probably unnecessary

"Han treiv ei øks i hovudet på han så skallen kløvdes heilt ned til skuldrane. Det blei hans bane."
An axe was thrust into his head so his skull was split in two right down to his shoulders. This killed him.
--
a very thorough Viking saga

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

I Thought That Was Christie

Jesus . . . was a one person crime wave. --John Dear, SJ