real life law enforcement

I have to admit I watch Cops. It comes on at 4am, and it's this weird thing. It's stranger than watching talk shows or dating shows. It's the creepiest of reality television, because I think we are all always wondering when we are going to see someone we know on there.

There was an episode on tonight that was all incidents where shots were fired. It was exceptionally scary. The most disturbing by far was the guy with the knife who had run from the police and ended up on the freeway outside of Boston on foot. He's walking, waving the knife, and a dozen cops are on foot following him. They kept telling him to just drop the knife, and he kept yelling. He wound up pinned to the guard rail by a cruiser, took a swing at an officer, and the car's driver pegged him in the stomach. The camera did a close up shot of the bullet wound, and it was strange looking. The whole thing was so senseless. That guy could have stopped, maybe gotten whacked with a nightstick. But instead, he gets a bullet and a guy has to shoot him.

There are a lot of scary police officers, and I've seen some real jerks. But there are a lot of really good police officers too, and I've seen them. What's strange and sad to me is that so much of the madness I've seen on this show could be avoided if people were not so damned stupid.

don't send me anything UPS

I hate UPS. I hate them.

We never recieved our packages last week, because UPS wouldn't come before 5pm. So we put a hold on the two packages, and I went to pick them up at the package center which is hidden on a nameless, signless road south of us. I spent thirty damned minutes waiting, as there were only two employees actually helping the line of a dozen customers. Competant Employee was tied up helping this belligerent Hispanic fellow who kept insisting he had more packages, walking into the employee area and saying, "Did you look there? Did you look there?" Incompetant Employee took my ticket, and after she found my packages I had to spend a good twenty minutes staring at them while she tried to work the touch pad where you sign packages in and out. I could not grab my packages and go, oh no. I had to wait.

Turns out when I get home, damned UPS delivered while I was out! What the fuck?

At least I have all the packages now. But oh they are getting a lengthy and irate letter in their customer service box soon. We hates them precious, yes we do.

who else could it be?

You are Spider Jerusalem.
Spider is THE journalist of the future. He smokes,
he does drugs, and he kicks ass. The drugs are
going to eventually kill him but not before he
gets his way. And his way is the demise of the
failed American dream. Although full of hate,
he cares about his city. All he wants to bring
the world is truth. Spider Jerusalem,
conscience of the City. Frightening thought,
but he's the only one we've got.


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