The World Turned Upside Down......

Is this one true?  I heard it on a radio show and then saw a separate reference online.

Supposedly a Denver man had his windshield smashed by a vandal.  He made an appointment at a repair shop to get his damaged windshield fixed.  As he pulled into the parking lot, an Adams County deputy pulled in behind him and gave him a citation/ticked for driving with a broken windshield.  Both were in the parking lot of the repair shop!  The owner showed the officer that the man had an appointment scheduled to get the windshield fixed.  No matter, the ticket stood.

Again, I wonder.  Is this one true?

And, last week, in NYC a former world-ranked professional tennis player was mauled by a plainclothes officer.  The man was just standing outside a hotel, waiting for a bus or cab or......  The officer took him down, aided by several others.  Despite the man's pleas to check his ID, he was hauled off.  He made no resistance, didn't struggle.  Within 15 minutes the man was released, after the mauling and being dragged through the public by half a dozen officers.  Although the man was supposedly similar in looks to the guy who was wanted--it turned out not to be the man.  Again, no resistance, no struggle.  And for what crime/charge?  Murder?  Rape?  Any assault?  Nope, none of the above.  It was credit card fraud and, remember, the man who was mauled was not the culprit.

Sometimes I really wonder.

The past couple of weeks the Michigan state legislature spent what seemed like an inordinate amount of time investigating an affair between two lawmakers.  Granted, the cover up attempted by the two was extremely bizarre.  But, still......  Why isn't there that urgency in fixing our roads, for instance?  I got a big laugh when one of the legislative leaders said that "the integrity" of the state legislature was involved in this affair deal.  Yeah, right..."the integrity."  Is there any wonder why people hold our legislators in such low regard?  Nope, I don't wonder at this one.