Arkansas Blog

And Lonoke just THOUGHT they had something on us!

Speaking on behalf of "heavyset guys" everywhere, I sympathize with the deputy. Those stalls are too small anyway.

"photo of bullet hole in restroom ceiling"

How does a bullet hole get in the ceiling unless you are playing with your .....gun.

Sorry Chief, I was just practicing my quick draw.

begs the question.....one should probably not ask on this blog.
(where is DBI when you need him? *s*)

I don't recollect ol' Barney Fife ever shootin' a hole in the ceiling... sounds like more than one gun may have been pointing in the wrong direction in that there bathroom...

"where is DBI when you need
him?
Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR"

Don't worry. He's on duty. I'm pretty sure that photo is of DBI's belly button.

There was a bit of graffiti on the wall in a men's room at my old high school that said..."Anyone can piss on the wall. Be a hero and s**t on the ceiling."

I wonder if that gun-toting goob was trying to act that out...

Some 30 years ago there was a guy who ran a LR retail business (which will remain nameless). The guy had been a police officer at some time and place in his past.

The business had nothing to do with guns, but it did have full-length mirrors, one of which was shattered by the business owner's late night quick draw practice which turned out to be more than practice.

It's a durn good thing that deputy at the IHOP had already finished his bathroom business when the gun went off. I'd've filled my britches.

Spirit... rofl! I just looked at the picture.

at least its an ini

I am leaving this thread before it turns into a late night fun fest..

Hey Benton PD.. this is where you just fire the dude.. and don't send him over to Malvern PD on the sly.

I'd try to kill the herald of digestive woe, too.

I would have been on this sooner but I had to go pay a visit to my sexy new female doctor. During our last visit the subject naturally turned to sex and she thought I'd enjoy switching from the little blue pill to Cialis, that 3 day "are you happy to see me or is that a gun in your pocket" medicine.

The stuff worked like a charm, every Walmart greeter in Sebastian County was in danger for 3 days every time I took the stuff. But 3 days of a slight headache and terrible indigestion for 10 minutes worth of sex just ain't worth it. So I had to go back today and talk Dr. JenJen (no relation to the new blogger) into another script for the old blue pill.

Now about this deputy.....there could be several good explanations here. The average penis length in the US is about 6 inches, roughly the same length of the barrel of a service revolver. Assuming his belly is on average with the average deputy, it would be easy to make a mistake during the whipping out portion of visiting a public restroom.

On the other hand, if the deputy is less well endowed and taking one of those 3 day Cialis pills getting ready for the weekend, his emboldened cocktail frank could have gotten hung up in the trigger guard as he took down his pants.

But the more probable explanation is that after relieving himself following a double order of Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity, he looked down in the toilet and thought he saw George W. Bush climbing up thru the toilet paper and he shot the son of a bitch! There are a few Democrats in Saline County ya know.

We live in scary times indeed and all of us are a little jumpy these days. I've finally learned to be calm when I see my 2 dogs out in the yard making Bush & Cheneys in the grass. So don't punish this poor deputy......let's give him a recess appointment as a new member of Bush's 5000 man protection unit, or loan him out to McCain for a while.

And someone needs to tell him that the taste of iHop food improves 1000% if you're drunk and high when you eat it. Eating there sober would make anyone trigger happy.

DBI? 10 minutes of sex? really? What's the name of this stuff? By the way you were mentioned as a possible presidential contender by Bob Lancaster is the last AT. Now you have been mentioned by writers in both the DG and the AT. When does Max give you a real column to put into the void left by Warwick?

IHOP needs to put a frame around that bullet hole. I can guarantee you it will be good for business.

Granted, I am a simple man, and it doesn't take much to entertain me, but I made a discovery recently and here's another opportunity to mention it. I always seem to post last on these damn blogs - about 6 hours after everybody else has lost intererst in the thread - and I mentioned this at the end of a previous one - so if you happened to see that, forgive the redundancy.
About IHOP. If you're inside the building, looking out through the windows, seeing the "IHOP" sign on there backwards, it appears as "gohi". Ain't that a hoot - considering all the time some of us spent there, back in the day, doing exactly that?
OK. I guess you hadda be there.

"Posted by: RickBaber"

Sorry, I lost interest in this thread a couple of hours ago so didn't read Rick's post above...

Somehow I never can get a movie out of my mind, "Justice for All". I always recall Jack Warden as the judge with a shotgun in his mouth and when instances like the Benton-IHOP- a tell-tale bullet hole in the ceiling I just think another soul chickened out of early exit.
_

Like rickbaber...I tend to be late to the discussions. Luckily it doesn't lesson the entertainment from my end. (This blog entertains the hell out of me whether I comment or not.) I'm sure I'm gonna offend someone, but...if the stall's too small perhaps IHOP's not the place to be stuffing your face. And, how in the hell can an overweight cop do their job?? Or perhaps I've been watching too much 'Cops' and assume that being fit enough to chase and subdue a criminal requires some level of fitness beyond fitting into IHOP's bathrooms .

DBI for president sounds good to me.

Spirit,
Only 2 hours??
I'm catching up!

This incident sure highlights a thought I had over the last weekend.

Nothing to do Sunday night, channel surfing, came across a COPS show. I think they were in New Jersey. It was a marathon of 3 or 4 episodes.

There were 2 themes, bumblin & babblin drunks and drug busts.

The drug busts bother me. These were small deals between personal users of pot and crack.

But in ALL cases the cops were running around with pistols waving around.

This post may not sound like it but I am a Police supporting taxpayer and am happy everday that there are people out there that will become police officers and protect me and my family from harm. But the drug war is a failure with no exit strategy. Sort of like Iraq.

The most troubling incident on COPS was where an officer sees a 17 kid swap something with a suspected dealer. Any fool could tell it was small drug buy.

The officer shadows the buyer and he ducked into a hallway entrance.

The cop pulls his gun and bursts through the door yelling "hands up, get down on the floor!"

The kid about crapped in his pants and had eyes the size of dinner plates and dives onto the floor.

The kid was going to sprinkle the crack into a little cigar and have a little smoke.

Although illegal, was his crime worthy of a death sentance?

If a deputy's gun can discharge by accident in an IHOP restroom, it can surely discharge when jumping through a doorway screaming "hands up! On the floor!"

That is what I have against our drug laws and war on drugs.

If the COPS show cop's gun had gone off, they would have thrown down a pistol and 50 crack rocks and justified the accident as "another drug related death".

That is my rant, thank you for a way to unload that thought which has troubled me since Sunday.

I hear you, Citizen1. An interviewee on NPR this afternoon noted that in our society, it is sexier to arrest, convict, and incarcerate drug offenders than it is to try to help them. Offenders often get about 5 years, which is on a par with the actual time some murderers do.

Hey Rick, looks like I'm gonna be the winner today -- 13 hours.
I appreciate the heads up this post gives. I've eaten in a few places where the cops seem to congregate but I'll take a good gander around from now on. The problem, it seems, will be scoping out the plain clothes guys who likely won't be reconizable unitl they start describing the murder scene they came upon last night.
And Citizen and Hugh, drug busts are often much more than sexy for the Keystones. A few years back around here, local gendarmes stopped a couple of out-of-state cars, including a fairly new Corvette, traveling together. A little stash was discovered in the run-of-the-mill car and both cars were seized. That 'vette was the PD's to play with for a few years. It was all tricked up as a police car, stored in the assistant chief's garage and driven only in ceremonial events. (Well, of course, any car needs to be driven regularly or it will deteriorate, so it was "appropriately maintained" as well.)
Finally a new chief decided the city couldn't afford the upkeep on a ceremonial car and ordered it sold.
Wouldn't you know it? The AC, with strong community and family ties, but passed over (many times) for promotion, was not happy. That new chief didn't stay on the job long but the AC was passed over again.
Oh, the "drug dealer"? The deal was: give up the 'vette without a fight and charges will be dropped.