I laughed.

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/an-open-letter-to-the-worst-waxwork-museum-in-america

And from the HAHAHAHAHAAAAIEEEEE department:

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/cry-baby-of-the-week-sidewalk-chalk-facebook-comment-arrest

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/an-open-letter-to-the-worst-waxwork-museum-in-america

And from the HAHAHAHAHAAAAIEEEEE department:

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/cry-baby-of-the-week-sidewalk-chalk-facebook-comment-arrest

OH MY GOD. THE WAXWORKS.

those guys need to go to Madame Tussauds in London.

[EK WAFFLR]

That wax thingy is fantastic!

Crybaby link.... I don't even..

[McGrupp]

Just read an update on the Jeff Olson case.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/jeff-olson-california-banks_n_3499177.html

The San Diego Reader reported Tuesday that a judge had decided to prohibit Olson's attorney from "mentioning the First Amendment, free speech, free expression, public forum, expressive conduct, or political speech during the trial."

This actually makes me physically ill.

edit: Wax museum did cheer me up a bit.

[Doktor Howl]

Just read an update on the Jeff Olson case.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/jeff-olson-california-banks_n_3499177.html

The San Diego Reader reported Tuesday that a judge had decided to prohibit Olson's attorney from "mentioning the First Amendment, free speech, free expression, public forum, expressive conduct, or political speech during the trial."

This actually makes me physically ill.

edit: Wax museum did cheer me up a bit.

HOME
OF
THE
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

[McGrupp]

 

PLENTIFUL SODA FOR EVERYONE!
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO WATCH TV ALL DAY!
VISIT MCDONALDS WHENEVER YOU WANT!
SEMI-POTABLE WATER!

WHAT MORE FREEDOM DO YOU WANT!?!?

[Bruno]

$6000 to clean chalk off a sidewalk 13 times? That's over $460 each time.

I'm in the wrong business.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

$6000 to clean chalk off a sidewalk 13 times? That's over $460 each time.

I'm in the wrong business.

The school tried to charge me $400 to paint over a tiny pencil mark my daughter made on the wall once, that she erased. The eraser made a smear or something.

I told them to put some Clorox on a sponge. 

[Left]

I've done designs in sidewalk chalk...and the next time it rains, those designs are gone.
...This is ridiculous.
...No sane jury would convict over this.
So, will they seat a sane jury?

...I've been in a jury selection pool several times and never served.

...The last time? it was a DWI case.

There was no breathalyzer, no blood draw ( you can get a search warrant for that !), no dashcam video of her driving erratically, no witnesses, no corroborating evidence AT ALL.
  Merely the single officer's word against the woman's word.

...And there were not enough people in the prospective jury panel who were willing to vote to convict on that basis alone.
...I was proud to be one of those.
The judge was PISSED! 

And quite frankly I was too.  They wasted everyone's goddamn time with that nonsense.

This is a thread of its' own, but I want to look into more how the jury selection system is slanted to get conviction-happy people.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Fucking humanity. 

On the plus side, there's this: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/im-about-to-admit

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I've done designs in sidewalk chalk...and the next time it rains, those designs are gone.
...This is ridiculous.
...No sane jury would convict over this.
So, will they seat a sane jury?

...I've been in a jury selection pool several times and never served.

...The last time? it was a DWI case.

There was no breathalyzer, no blood draw ( you can get a search warrant for that !), no dashcam video of her driving erratically, no witnesses, no corroborating evidence AT ALL.
  Merely the single officer's word against the woman's word.

...And there were not enough people in the prospective jury panel who were willing to vote to convict on that basis alone.
...I was proud to be one of those.
The judge was PISSED! 

And quite frankly I was too.  They wasted everyone's goddamn time with that nonsense.

This is a thread of its' own, but I want to look into more how the jury selection system is slanted to get conviction-happy people.

I never served on a jury, ever. I probably REEK of everything they DON'T want.
This gets me out of it every time, but I've wondered the same thing about the people they DO pick. Probably a bunch of racist teabaggers.