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2007-01-22 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Free Radical 2007-01-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This seems kind of strange. Can an off duty copy working for a private company demand to see your i.d. on a public street and the wrestle you to the ground and arrest you? If he is working for an Atlanta Hotel on his own time he should not be wearing a jacket marked Atlanta Police.

Posted by matt 2007-01-22 00:17|| 2007-01-22 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 It really depends. Alot of the cops in Tennessee at least can be hired to do things like card at Frat parties. When they fulfill these functions, they are in official uniform and while 'off-duty' in a sense that they're not being paid by the city/town/county, they are acting as a police officer.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-01-22 00:35|| 2007-01-22 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, went and looked. Here in Tenn at least, off duty police officers can be employed a number of ways, but still wear their uniform and act as police officers. This has to be done through certain security companies or through a police departments Secondary Employment Unit. It lets the police earn extra money while having on site police at potential troublespots.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-01-22 00:41|| 2007-01-22 00:41|| Front Page Top

#4 He's a rent-a cop. As such, he was merely offering friendly advice to Prof. Dumbf**k, until he started brawling. Then he transitioned into citizen arrest mode. Too bad he didn't have a four battery flashlight handy or a tazer just for tickles.

Posted by SpecOp35 2007-01-22 00:50|| 2007-01-22 00:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I've heard of this clown, and wrote about him here. Shorter version: Woe is us, says Fernandez-Armesto, for young people are reading that dreadful Harry Potter, and so will grow up with impoverished imaginations. O tempura! O morays!

Bonus demerits to him for having coined the phrase "nerdy-eyed". It inspired me to write a follow-up post, Dark They Were, and Nerdy-Eyed.

(Be with us next time for another episode of Link Whore Theatre.)

Maybe his eyes were insufficiently nerdy.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-01-22 02:00|| 2007-01-22 02:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Get 'em Angie.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-22 02:10|| 2007-01-22 02:10|| Front Page Top

#7 When in another country, it is wise as well as polite to scrupulously obey laws involving interaction with moving vehicles. In Germany scores of seven year old children are hit by cars when crossing the street at other than marked crosswalks on the first day of the school year. German drivers don't see them if they aren't highlighted by the zebra stripes, apparently, and the newbies don't understand the consequences of such an apparently minor mistake.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-22 06:06|| 2007-01-22 06:06|| Front Page Top

#8 are hit by cars when crossing the street at other than marked crosswalks

If I remember correctly from my German drivers exam, if they aren't in a crosswalk, they're fair game.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-01-22 08:10|| 2007-01-22 08:10|| Front Page Top

#9 With the press that ATL police have gotten the last few months, he's lucky he didn't end up lookin' like swiss cheese, full of 9mm holes!

I'll ALWAYS follow the old maxim: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." Just another case of a LLL Professor who thinks the law only applies to us commoners, in my book.

Posted by BA 2007-01-22 10:15|| 2007-01-22 10:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Professor of Global Environmental History
[iow professor of asshat studies]

[click snob for linky]

Fernández-Armesto is the assclown who gained media attention in 2007 for an incident on January 4th in which he was allegedly brutalized by 5 policemen led by Kevin Leonpacher in Atlanta, Georgia as a result of jaywalking (which does not exist as a legal and therefore criminal concept in his home country of the UK) boo f'n hoo

Professor Lisa Kazmier, who witnessed the incident, was quoted as saying "It was like he was Osama Bin Laden or something."

Posted by RD 2007-01-22 10:41|| 2007-01-22 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Professor Lisa Kazmier, who witnessed the incident, was quoted as saying "It was like he was Osama Bin Laden or something."

Huuuummmm... I'm wondering... just thinking out loud... does she know SOMETHING we don't??? Perhaps a DNA test is in order... just saying...

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-22 10:48|| 2007-01-22 10:48|| Front Page Top

#12 He wasn't arrested for jaywalking, he was arrested for refusing to show ID and talking back.

I think the professor was trying to create an incident.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-22 11:45|| 2007-01-22 11:45|| Front Page Top

#13 From the looks of him I would have given him a slap with or without the jaywalking.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-22 13:50|| 2007-01-22 13:50|| Front Page Top

#14 There's a YouTube three-parter interview with this character. I watched 45 seconds of part one and exited.

Posted by mrp 2007-01-22 14:39|| 2007-01-22 14:39|| Front Page Top

#15 From September 2005, he has been ... at Tufts University and is an example of a UK superdon.

If he's a superdon, he should have flown across the street.

Posted by DMFD 2007-01-22 18:51|| 2007-01-22 18:51|| Front Page Top

#16 And what is the law on refusing to show ID and 'talking back'?

Papiere. Bitte, zeigen Sie Ihre Papiere zofort.

Posted by KBK 2007-01-22 19:03|| 2007-01-22 19:03|| Front Page Top

#17 And what is the law on refusing to show ID and 'talking back'?

In Atlanta the penalty is One Ass-Kickin'.

Next question.

Posted by Parabellum 2007-01-22 19:36|| 2007-01-22 19:36|| Front Page Top

#18 Simple, KBK.

In most localities in the US of A, if you are walking down the street minding your own beeswax and a cop wants to talk to you and/or see your ID and you don't feel like sharing that info, keep walkin'. There's nothing a cop can do about it.

If, on the other hand, you desperately want an ass-beating (or something that you can later claim was an ass-beating to get some badass street cred) at the hands of a po-po, break a law, and then refuse to show ID.

Sure, jaywalking is a chickensh!t charge, but escalating the situation through your own stupid behavior to disorderly conduct? Ain't got no sympathy for that schmuck.

I kind of hope that they are portraying it as a violent, unreasonable cop assault back in Britain. Especially to the Queen's loyal subjects in the mosques.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-01-22 21:01|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2007-01-22 21:01|| Front Page Top

#19 And what is the law on refusing to show ID and 'talking back'?

Depends. In most countries if you're a foreigner and you just fucked up, refusing to show ID and 'talking back' would get you a lot worse than SuperDon got.

Papiere. Bitte, zeigen Sie Ihre Papiere zofort.

Tell you what. Go to Germany and try doing what SuperDon did. Tell us what happened.

Posted by Pappy 2007-01-22 22:56|| 2007-01-22 22:56|| Front Page Top

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