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 Lt. Steve:
I was driving up 400 and a cop stopped me for speeding. There was traffic to my right so I pulled over to the left against the median wall. The officer was agitated with me and I didn't like his attitude. I couldn't pull over to the right because of the traffic. What should I have done? Was I dumb to do that?
Dear Dummy:
Having been there myself, I'm guessing the officer was a bit on the agitated side knowing that he was about to be run over. The only thing that would fit in that lane is a clown car so I'm sure half of yours and the cop's car, which of course is behind yours and will be the first one hit, was sticking out there to be hit by one of our fine drivers who just may be on his or her cell phone, texting something insignificant that could have waited.
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Posted on Thursday, March 13
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| Good cop vs. non-cop |
Every once in a while you see a news story of someone impersonating a police officer. A young woman was robbed by a man who followed her and then pulled her over while she was on her way home. He asked for her license, walked back to his car, and then returned and took the contents from her wallet. She said he had a large knife in his belt.
This method is well documented all over the country. Years ago, Cherokee County authorities arrested a man who used a blue light to pull over and then sexually assault women. He placed a blue light in the dash of the car.
The term "Blue Light Rapist" has been used in cases throughout the country to describe this particular method of trickery used by sex offenders or robbers. Fortunately, In the case of the woman stopped in Barrow County this past week, all the man wanted was her money and credit cards.
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Posted on Friday, October 05
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| The Case of the Fatal Error Message |
Monday was like every other Monday except that everything at work was different and a bunch of other things, but other than that it was the same. I left work, went home after a short hour-and-a-half drive, and got the mountain bike. I ride the mountain bike because everything about it is rugged—like me. I’m a rugged guy.
I was riding my rugged mountain bike without brakes. I don’t need brakes. Brakes are for sissy-boys. I was riding my rugged mountain bike, the one without brakes, down the rugged trails. I was sweating like most rugged guys do, as I rode the rugged trails. I left my phone behind because rugged guys don’t use cell phones on the trails. They use smoke signals or just yell really loud.
For the next hour I ruggedly rode the mountain bike down the trails, working up a good sweat—not glistening — as I watched the other riders pass me, at a high rate of speed, on my left of course. Rugged isn’t necessarily fast.
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Posted on Wednesday, August 22
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| Does your purse say ‘steal me’? |
I spent some time recently going into grocery stores to see how many women had their purses in the ‘steal me’ spot in the cart and how many of those purses were wide open.
Just about all of the purses were in the cart seat but a good many were zipped up. I found that some shoppers walked 15 to 20 feet away from the cart with their purses wide open and their wallets exposed. We do as much communicating to the public as we can right now, trying to get folks to realize that all of these thefts are dependent on the opportunity to steal. Just closing your purse makes a big, big, difference.
Too many folks are leaving valuables in the car while the car is inside the garage. What the thieves are doing is checking the door to see if it’s unlocked and if it is, they’re coming in and swiping things from the kitchen area counter. Set your alarms and look at installing motion detection outside lights.
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Posted on Sunday, July 15
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| PhD not required to understand ‘police’ |
Everyone else is writing about Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, respected historian from Tufts University. Seems he didn’t know that Kevin Leonpacher, Atlanta Police officer, was a police officer although he was wearing a UNIFORM that said POLICE on it. He said he didn’t know Leonpacher was an officer and, furthermore, jaywalking is not illegal in Britain.
Let’s just say that Felipe didn’t know that Leonpacher was a cop because he didn’t see the badge and the patches that read “ATLANTA POLICE” along with the whole uniform thing and a traffic vest that said “POLICE.”
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Posted on Saturday, July 07
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| Cell phones making us stupider |
Folks, Put your cell phones down a minute. I’ve just figured out something very important!
I don’t think that we are as multi-tasking efficient as we thought we were. We just don’t remember what it was we needed to do, want to do, and even what we did, while we were talking and it all has to do with our cell phones!
This has just happened to me and I need to explain it before I forget, probably again.
Cell phones are making us more stupid than normal. It’s true. We’ve fooled ourselves into thinking that we can multi-task day-to-day activity while talking on the cell phone. It doesn’t matter if you have a Bluetooth or any other dental issue, your cell phone has the ability to make stupid decisions for you while you’re on it.
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Posted on Saturday, July 07
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| Smile for the video, please |
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Video surveillance has come a long way from video tape and VCR machines. Now almost all effective systems are digital and can be monitored from any location thanks to your computer’s hard drive. Camera systems have come down in price and as a result, many individual homes as well as communities have purchased systems to aid in the overall security plan.
Any new business should include video as part of its start up costs. More and more, residential communities are looking at video surveillance as part of the security plan. Common objections to video security fall mainly into three categories: Budget; Responsibility for day to day maintenance, and The Big Brother Conspiracy
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Posted on Monday, June 18
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| Father’s Day don’ts & a few do’s |
This is Father’s Day weekend meaning that we don’t have to do the following:
- Cut the grass
- Go to any form of fabric store
- Wear color-coordinated clothing if we so desire
- Talk to your mother
- Plant anything
Even though it is Father’s Day, there are still rules that fathers should observe just for the good of everyone. This would include burping contests and scratching inappropriately in front of company. Although you can wear your robe longer, you probably need to have it on by supper-time.
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Posted on Saturday, June 16
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| Tripped up by false alarms |
One of the biggest public safety problems in Sandy Springs, aside from keeping an eye on all those turtles, is false alarms. Sandy Springs has approximately two zillion homes, almost all equipped with an alarm system.
In most cases, new owners purchase the home and then begin the task of becoming familiar with everything in the home. This includes the computerized oven, thermostats, sprinkler systems, the 543-inch theatre system screen with Gonzo-Sound System capable of creating a small tsunami in the computerized waterfall system next to the miniature Bellagio replica pool. It’s very cool. (You don’t want to be standing in the middle of the pool when the water show starts).
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Posted on Saturday, June 16
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| The real story of my metaphysical trip |
Recently during lunch, I read a local paper dedicated to holistic health, personal growth, and spiritual paths. I think the older I get, the more interest I see in things that I would normally have no interest in. That doesn’t really make sense but what I mean is that sometimes I take a longer look at things just because.
The gist of this paper had a lot to do with things like mystic journeys. The last time I took a mystic journey was at a Humble Pie concert in San Diego around 1972. I was standing at the edge of the stage, back when you could still do that, enjoying the music and listening to my eardrums crack.
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Posted on Thursday, April 05
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