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So, That One Cookie Guy Got Arrested
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Jack Baruth
(IC: employee)
Published: December 13th, 2013
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Comedian Randy Liedtke baked himself an iPhone cookie. While this was certainly a blow struck against the police state known as the People’s Republic of California, for Mr. Liedtke himself, it didn’t work so well.
While Mr. Liedtke says he is out of the cookie-iPhone business, your humble author is struck by two aspects of the situation:
- You can be arrested for parking tickets? What kind of a country is this, exactly? Couldn’t he have pleaded “affluenza”?
- Since the primary stop was baseless, shouldn’t he be free to go, even if he has a parking-ticket warrant? Lawyers of the Internet, I’m calling on you.
Regardless of the particulars, it would appear to Mr. Liedtke is as thoroughly broken on the wheel of governmental oppression as was Winston Smith. But how brightly the flame of revolution burned, in that brief moment when it shone!
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Published December 13th, 2013 10:18 AM
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Someone should send a cookie in the shape of a key to him in jail.
Having BEEN to a REAL police state (Eastern Europe before the wall fell) I can state from personal experience that the USA is not a police state, and this guy is no Winston Smith. Reminds me of the anti fur activist who went into our local charity shop (nee thrift store) and destroyed all the fur coats-- these were used coats, and the money for selling them would go to families in need, but "fur is evil", so the coats were wrecked and went to the dump. Making a cell phone cookie and provoking a cop is a similar form of stupidity. My point is: if you think "cops are evil" and driving with a cellphone is safe, then change the law. Stop complaining on forums and get involved in your local government; work on the local police oversight committee, and make a real world effort to change things. And vote, if you want to be heard. But if you aren't involved in politics (as I have been since 1972) then you are full of hot air.
If you don't know how a person can be arrested because of parking tickets and call the initial stop baseless, then you clearly do not have any grasp of the basic aspects of law enforcement and should cease articles like this where you're ignorance is so beautifully on display.
Do chocolate chips make your cookie phone have buttons?