You may have heard about the plight of a small delta town called Jericho and its assistant fire chief Don Payne. It’s had a few mentions on the news networks and a couple appearances on the AP feed … and I dedicated a post to the story a couple weeks back (Holy Jericho).
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Payne-ful Update
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, tagged ABC, allegation, AP, argument, Arkansas, arrest, assault, attorney, authority, Ballin Ballin & Fishman, battery, beat, bullet, charges, chief investigator, circumstance, city, city council, city hall, city prosecutor, corrupt, counsel, court, courtroom, Crittenden County, custody, delta, department, disband, dismissal, Don Payne, Eric Pharr, felony, fight, fire chief, fired, force, fugitive, gun, gunshot, hearing, Helen Adams, hip, illegal, incident, information, interview, investigation, Jericho, judge, law firm, lawyer, legal, Lindsey Fairley, Matters, mayor, meeting, Memphis, My Eyewitness News, NBC, news, officer, over-react, patrol, pistol, police, police chief, porch, post, press, proceedings, prosecute, Randy Fishman, report, reporter, reprimand, resign, secret, served, Sheriff's Office, shooting, shot, surgery, Tennessee, termination, Thomas Martin, ticket, Tonya Alexander, town, update, video, volunteer, warrant, weapon, West Memphis, wife, Willie Frazier, wound on October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Amber Waves of Gain
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, tagged abuse, accuse, activity, agent, alternate-side, article, Atlanta, attorney, authorities, authority, Baltimore, Black Friday, bogus, boot, Boston, Bronx, budget, bus zone, California, camera, car, cell, charge, Chicago, citation, citizen, city, collect, Colorado, Columbus, common sense, confusing, conspiracy, convenience, cost, country, court, courtesy, crosswalk, curb, damage, decency, Denver, Department of Homeland Security, dismiss, dollar, double-park, driver, drug-related, electronic, exception, extortion, extreme, false, fee, fight, fine, Fort Worth, freedom, funds, goal, government, greed, harrassment, holy, idiocy, illegal, illegible, increase, infraction, innocent, intention, IRS, Jericho, judge, Kentucky, law, law breaking, law enforcement, lawyer, legal, legitimate, letter, license, Louisville, machine, maid, man, Maryland, mass-ticket, mayor, meter, Michael Bloomberg, missing, money, Montgomery County, MSNBC, mugging, muni-meter, New Orleans, New York City, New York Times, news, numbers, Ohio, Oregon, parking, payroll, penalty, phone, piggy bank, police, populace, Portland, prison, productivity, push, registration, reprimand, resident, revenue, ruin, Sacremento, sale, sanction, Santa Monica, scan, Seattle, seize, shift, shortfall, signs, statistic, story, super-agent, system, taxes, tenuous, terrorism, terrorist, Texas, text message, ticket, traffic enforcement agent, trend, unlawful, unpleasant, unreasonable, vehicle, veteran, violation, violator, visitor, Washington D.C., work on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Let me preface this statistic-rich post by noting the following: 1) most of these numbers were derived from two online sources, so if they were incorrect then I am also; and 2) if you are caught genuinely breaking a law, you deserve to be fined, ticketed, booted, or otherwise reprimanded as defined by local [...]
Holy Jericho
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, tagged Albert Beebe, allegation, argument, Arkansas, article, Atoka, authority, bullet, charge, corrupt, county, court, Crittenden, cruiser, defraud, delta, department, dismiss, dispute, Don Payne, duty, enforcement, fight, fire chief, fire truck, fired, flatland, force, funds, I-55, illegal, income, interstate, investigation, Jericho, judge, jurisdiction, Larry Harris, law, malfeasance, Memphis, Mississippi, office, officer, opinion, personal use, pistol, police, police chief, policing, proceedings, record, Regional Medical Center, river, scuffle, session, sheriff, shooting, shot, speed trap, squad car, statement, ticket, Tonya Alexander, town, traffic, unarmed, void, volunteer, Willie Frazier on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In the flatland of Arkansas’s Mississippi delta rests a small town named Jericho. Just off the interstate and home to less than 200 people, motorists generally pass it by on I-55 without a moment’s notice. Unless you’re driving through town, that is.
“You can’t even buy a loaf of bread, but we’ve got seven [...]
Futility
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged attorney, con, criminal, crook, deed, fraud, judge, justice, lawyer, power of attorney, real estate, thief on January 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, the season of brotherly love has ended. Call me a pessimist, a cynic, a curmudgeon (all true), but a few days ago I got a call that punctured the bright balloon of Christmas delusion and ushered the real world back in. Criminals posing as lawyers, bankers, judges, and friends victimized my neighbor’s [...]
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