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Monday, March 31, 2008

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THIS WAS ON THE BROWARD BLOG OVER THE WEEKEND.

SCHOOL -- 1958 vs. 2008

Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1958 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario : Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1958 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario : Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students .
1958 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario : Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1958 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2008 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psycho logist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario : Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1958 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2008 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario : Pedro fails high school English.
1958 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English , goes to college.
2008 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario : Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1958 - Ants die.
2008 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario : Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1958 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Arrest everybody. Twice. Job security.

Anonymous said...

the funny thing about this, is that it's not funny - its true, and that's pathetic.

Anonymous said...

Good shit, Rumpole. The common denominator across all your "stories": More, and more active, government. From the left, from the right, from the center...

Anonymous said...

We had kids with guns in their trucks in 1979, so you need to move your date up a bit.

Anonymous said...

It's Monday. I'd like a Q update, a Shumie update, an "L&L Twins" update, and a Fake Alschuler update please.

Thanking you in advance for your cooperation, I remain,

yours truly,
Anonymouse. (old old blog refernce from days when Bobby Reiff was slugging it out.)

Anonymous said...

1958 - Jack Thompson not a member of The Florida Bar

2008 - Jack Thompson no longer a member of The Florida Bar

Anonymous said...

ROFL ROFL ROFL. RUMPY GIVE THIS GUY THE BEST COMMENT OF THE DAY, THE BEST COMMENT OF THE WEEK, AND THE BEST COMMENT OF THE MONTH AWRDS, AND ENTER HIM IN THE BEST COMMENT OF THE YEAR AWARD.

Anonymous said...

L-n-L twins seen skuling around in court with their mega-hottie associate. Rumor is they are upset about the third floor secret bathroom report. Q had another killer Q day whopping the state at DUIs. Fake Alschuler, no one knows who he is. And Shumie and his Shumie doo not seen in the building today.

Anonymous said...

Last scenario is missing a sentence: Johnny's parents sue school system over his knee scrape.

Anonymous said...

All this utter lack of common sense is the result of political correctness and the refusal of school administrators and parents to take action without consulting with government and their involving law enforcement for even the least serious matters.

Anonymous said...

Everyone has a CYA attitude in the school system, just like in the SAO.

Anonymous said...

Is the L & L associate the only attractive female left in the building?

Anonymous said...

No. There is also the mega-spinner clerk hottie in Mills Francis. Cute. Petite. Sweet. And a mega mega mega hottie of legendary proportions.

Anonymous said...

Where are the women and gay guys on this blog?

Why no comments on the real hot guys in Bloom's courtroom?

Anonymous said...

Way too true - grew up with shotgun and rifle in the car. But not just CYA - also "Zero Tolerance" meaning we don't have to think or make a decision

Anonymous said...

Never let the truth get in the way of good story. I don't even know where to start. Both the 1958 scenarios and 2008 scenarios are straw arguments- happy little anecdotes that rarely, if ever happened.

But let's forget that...

It's 1958. Jack won't sit in school. He gets sent to the principal a lot and gets paddled. His father whups him for his grades. He picks fights with other kids. He starts a fight with Mark. A crowd gathers; Jack wins. He spits on Mark. Anger is his release. One day, Jack spends the morning shooting squirrels with Adam. They leave them to die and head to school with his shotgun in its gun rack. On his way he sees some negro students walking to their segregated school. He decides to impress Adam by confronting them. He stops the car and gets out. "Where you dumb niggers going?" They walk quietly on. It's 1958. "I'm talking to you nigger." He shoves a girl. Her boyfriend steps in. Calmly, politely, the negro boyfriend tells Jack that's enough for the morning. The negro student is 30 pounds heavier and 3 inches taller. Jack is no match. Adam laughs at him. He boils over in his powerless, hopeless anger. Jack runs back for the gun. He points it at the girlfriend and fires. She lies dying. "Like that nigger? Ready to talk now nigger? Know what time it is nigger? It's 1958."

Anonymous said...

Richard Hersch has a hot associate too.

Anonymous said...

check out the hottie clerk duo in 6-7 this week

Anonymous said...

You guys need to get out more. You live in miami and consider those two hot??? what kind of closet cases are you guys?

Anonymous said...

What is printed in the Broward Blog is true in a very sick, revolting way.

What is even more sick is that even though so many of us concede the idiocy, the majority, if they become Judges, would not have the guts to call a "spade a spade".

Whether you agree with Eig or not, the man is running his courtroom with his heart...rather than worrying about being politically correct and he should be commended. He is a new Judge so all of us have a learning curve. Anybody that has the guts to do be fair and try to improve our community must be given a pass...even if you disagree with them.

Thus is the problem with elected Judges and the vultures circling around who they think are vulnerable. Don't make a move and you don't have to worry about the ramifications! Thats wrong!

Although there are plenty of good younger Judges, there is something special about the older guys, Snyder, Knight, Margolius, and especially Deehl. They try to do the right thing rather than the politically correct thing.

I would like to see someone of authority chastize the next imbecile that writes "burglary with a battery" because someone reaches through a car window and tweaks the driver's nose.

Anonymous said...

Pedro for President (sorry Rump but you haven't called in a while so now Im voting for Pedro)

Napoleon Dynamite

Anonymous said...

T'aint funny, t'aint true, neither. Lots of those beaten boys in the 50s abuse their own kids today--what goes around comes around. Same with many of your other examples. There have always been abusive adults interacting with our children, and every generation we try to do better at curtailing the bullying, the sexual acting out and the rest of the problems.

Rumpole said...

I did not print the comment calling someone a "ho". None of that here.

Anonymous said...

We've been over this. The clerk and the Associate(s) and the random PDs and ASAs and Judges who are talked about on this blog are Justice Building hot. Not Miami Beach hot. Doesn't matter to me, though. I'll take any kind of hot.

Anonymous said...

In the event someone is "confused" by the comment discussing "Jack", "Negroes", and 1958, let me make clear:

The comment, however poorly written, countered the lead post's revisionist paradise with a negative view that was just as likely. The idyllic 50's, to the extent they existed at all, excluded women, blacks, hispanics, and other non-caucasians.

For persons under 40, the overt racism wasn't seen or felt on a daily basis. But persons over 60 experienced its humiliation relentlessly. Since baseball has started, think of Jackie Robinson and, later, Hank Aaron.

So to each and every poster who cries "too true, too true," I say shut-up with your revisionist history of the 50's. They're pretty stories which are demonstrably untrue for the great majority of Americans. As a protestant caucacasian male, I am both proud of America's movement toward equality and ashamed at its pace.

Let's stop pretending that racism ended with the tap of MLK's fairy wand. Let's stop acting puzzled when confronted with continuing black anger.