Police in Milledgeville, Georgia, said they don't discriminate when it comes to detainees, all of whom get handcuffed and taken to the station in the back of a squad car. That includes "age discrimination," the chief said, explaining why his officers cuffed a six-year-old girl who was throwing a tantrum in her kindergarten class. The girl was charged with assault and damage to property, "but will not have to go to court because of her age." That's because SHE IS SIX.
To your list of places not to watch porn on your computer, please add, "in court during a rape trial," and more specifically, "while sitting directly in front of the judge." The offender in this case was the court's clerk, and he actually did this while the victim was testifying. The clerk admitted it was not the first time he had watched porn during a trial, but said he "only looked at porn if the case was boring."
This claims Lawyer Dog is the "hot new dog meme," but also uses the terms "state bark exam" and "beagle representation" in the first two sentences, so I'd say it's already jumped the shark.
"He attempted to rob the place," said a policeman in Fort Smith, Arkansas, "but really I guess nobody took him serious enough to actually give him money because of his state of intoxication." It didn't help that he was armed with a pair of hot-dog tongs. The report claims he "chased a customer around the store" with them, but in the video she looks pretty unimpressed. Police said the man told officers he wanted to go to jail because he felt unappreciated by his wife and wanted her to see how things were without him. No reports yet that she misses him.
Extra bonus for this report on the Gingrich mauling ("Newt Gingrich bitten by penguin at zoo, a place where he loves to go"), where you can see a picture of Newt with a bearcat on his head and a slideshow of some of his other animal encounters. Gingrich was bitten by a baby cougar at a news conference in 1995, but obviously still hasn't gotten the hint.
Update: Some think cuffing the six-year-old might have been a reasonable response under the circumstances, and I guess I should defer to those who have children or have been attacked by some. It isn't the cuffing that really bothers me, to be honest -- personally, I think children should be kept in a pit until they turn 18 -- but rather what seems (at least at first glance) like an overreaction by police and administrators. But maybe in this case there was truly no other choice. Well, there's always the pit, or a quick tranquilizer dart and then the pit, but maybe no other reasonable choice.
