Cop Tasers Cow

Don’t ask me why.

He probably would have gotten away with it too, but apparently he “shared a videotape of the incident with other department employees”. Probably not a smart move.

Police Chief Steve Helms said Tuesday the inquiry began after he received a complaint from the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. A letter dated Feb. 11 from PETA representative Stephanie Bell complained that Lt. David Mitchell filmed himself using the electronic stun device on the cow.

Electronic stun guns are used as less-lethal weapons to subdue people who pose a threat to officers.

Bell said in the letter that Mitchell distributed the video as a joke among friends and co-workers and she notes that animal cruelty is a misdemeanor crime in Arkansas.

Ohhhhh….Arkansas. ‘Nuff said.

Hat tip: Crime Scene KC

Dry Run? TIA Passenger Had Boxcutter in Hollowed Out Book

This is slightly concerning since the DHS has stated that “Terrorist Use of “Dry Run” Tactic May Be Tip-Off for Imminent Terrorist Attack.” Just sayin’.

The 21 year old Clearwater man is facing 10 years in prison:

About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.’s backpack through an X-ray machine and saw the image of a box cutter, according to a report from the Transportation Security Administration.

When searching the backpack, a security officer found a book titled “Fear Itself.” The book was hollowed out, and the box cutter was inside.

His story:

After Baines was read his rights, he said his cousin had cut away the pages to make the hollow section in the book. Later, reports state, he said he had hollowed it out himself to hide money and marijuana from his roommates.

Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book.

Sounds innocent enough, but wait!:

Officers found books in the backpack titled “Muhammad in the Bible,” “The Prophet’s Prayer” and “The Noble Qur’an.” He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible.Several sheets of paper in the backpack included rap lyrics that referred to police, narcotics, weapons and killing. Baines told officers he is a rapper who writes his own lyrics and that rap music writers need to “play the part,” the report states.

Well good for him! He gets to “play the part” in the big house, now.

Also covering this story:

Michelle Malkin

Captain’s Quarters

Hat tip: LGF

Hillary’s Last Dying Gasps?

Hillary reportedly couldn’t fill the seats at her Hidalgo rally in Texas:

Hillary Clinton arrived to a much smaller crowd at rally at Dodge Arena this evening, compared to just one week ago at a rally in El Paso where Clinton drew over 10,000 people to the University of Texas. But in Hidalgo, where the arena seats 6,800 in a concert setting, the attendance was much less than that and made painfully obvious by the several hundred seats that were empty.

Whether this has any relation to the fact that Clinton has lost 10 contests in a row to Barack Obama, is unclear.

Meanwhile, Obama packed in 19,000 in Houston, and an estimated 17,000 people in Dallas.

But our girl’s not giving up. According to top strategist Mark Penn:

… in the next two weeks Hillary Clinton will go after Barack Obama on the issue of who is better qualified to be commander-in-chief — and Penn suggested that Clinton would be a better commander of the nation’s armed forces than both Obama and John McCain. “She is the only person in this race who is both ready to be commander-in-chief and would end the Iraq war and start to bring troops home within 60 days, compared to both Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain,” Penn told reporters.

Which really only serves to remind people of how essentially unqualified she herself, is.

And are people really supposed to buy that she’s going to be a “better” Commander-in-Chief by bringing the troops home before the job is done?

And finally, The Clinton campaign has launched a new website…for the youts, (so their voices can be heard!):

Hillary Speaks For Me.

Not only is it too little and too late, it appears to be designed for people too young to vote.

Ha!

See Ace for some funny photoshops by Slublog.

GASP!!! Double Standard At The NYT’s?

Newsbusters says, yeeeehp:

So The New York Times has released a story by a four-person investigative team alleging a potentially inappropriate relationship between Sen. John McCain, the apparent GOP nominee for president, and a lobbyist named Vicki Iseman, three decades his junior. There is no proof of an inappropriate romantic or sexual relationship, merely suspicions by staff members now said to be disgruntled. So why is the Times biting on this story? A look back at a few Clinton sex scandals suggests a different standard for Republicans and Democrats.

When Arkansas state troopers told The American Spectator and the Los Angeles Times in 1993 they secured sexual conquests for Gov. Bill Clinton, we found:

As in the Gennifer Flowers case, the Times initially buried Clinton’s sex scandal in small wire stories on the back pages. Washington Bureau Chief R.W. Apple proclaimed “The New York Times is not a supermarket tabloid.” But the Times ran a front-page Maureen Dowd story the day before the release of Kitty Kelley’s book — without any of Kelley’s critics, or any attempt to prove Kelley’s allegations [that Nancy Reagan had an affair with Frank Sinatra]. The Times also ran a 1991 Fox Butterfield article which revealed the name of William Kennedy Smith’s accuser and described her “wild streak,” her fondness for drinking, and her speeding tickets.

More at Newsbusters.

No, none of this is surprising, or even that aggravating anymore, because it is so expected.  Still, it’s hard to believe anyone takes this “newspaper of record” seriously, anymore.

13 Year Old Saves Grandpa From Raging Bull

The quick thinking teen drove the family pick-up truck into the bull as it was trampling his gramps:

On Friday afternoon, Aubrey Presley, 75, was routinely feeding a bull on his son’s farm when the animal became enraged and nearly trampled him to death.”I’d already made up in my mind that I wasn’t going to make it,” said Presley.

Presley believes he owes his life to his grandson. The seventh-grader saw what was happening and used his father’s truck to stop the attack.”I was driving right through here and hit the bull, turned and was driving him,” said Cole Presley.The only reason Cole Presley was home that day was because his school was out because of sickness.Cole’s grandpa has six broken ribs and lots of bruises.

Video at the WSMV News, (out of Nashville) site.

Anyone thinking what I’m thinking? Nashville….Presley….hmmmm.

Thanks to Crime Scene KC