# Houston idiot arrested
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 13, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847 "2021-03-13T21:08:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/61 "2021-03-22T02:02:14Z")
My folks would respond, “Wantings not getting,” to that.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/62 "2021-03-22T12:21:09Z")
She thinks her rights where being violated?
Wish the cop had said - “Well you have a right to put on a mask and stay, you have a right to leave right now, or you have the right to remain silent, and anything you say or do can be used against you.”
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/63 "2021-03-22T12:33:36Z")
Your parents remind me of friends of mine, who raised their kids, in part, by singing this Rolling Stones tune whenever necessary: “You can’t always get what you waa-ant, no you can’t always get what you war-ant; you can’t always get what you want, but you better try sometime, you just might find, you get what you nee-eed.”
After enough repetitions, this was reduced to, “You know what Mick says.”
Their children are all grown up now, and the fact that they are all decent human beings suggests that “You know what Mick says!” is a pretty good child-rearing strategy.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/64 "2021-03-22T14:39:43Z")
Which leads one to wonder if these grown children were also raised to have a modicum of sympathy for the devil.
ahem
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/65 "2021-03-22T15:54:40Z")
At the least, I hope they’ve learned their politesse well.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/66 "2021-03-22T16:19:57Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#):
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> Their children are all grown up now, and the fact that they are all decent human beings suggests that “You know what Mick says!” is a pretty good child-rearing strategy.
Pretty similar sentiment, I guess, but my folks were the generation (and a half?) before the Stones. Dad was born in '27, Mom in '35. Holidays & birthdays were for things we wanted, although never anything like _everything_ we wanted. If we wanted more than we were given, we had to pay for it ourselves. Chores and an allowance, y’know? I like to think they did a good job with us.
> [@DavidNRockies](#):
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> Which leads one to wonder if these grown children were also raised to have a modicum of sympathy for the devil.
Not so much, but there was a heavy emphasis on avoiding mother’s little helper.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/67 "2021-03-22T16:21:21Z")
> [@Morgyn](#):
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> Not so much, but there was a heavy emphasis on avoiding mother’s little helper.
Are we really doing this?.. Fine.
Those kids are living the charmed life.
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/68 "2021-03-22T16:39:48Z")
Did they learn to live with dissatisfaction, or just to complain about it?
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/69 "2021-03-22T16:42:18Z")
> [@markn\_1](#):
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> I hope they’ve learned their politesse well.
They’ve obviously got some sympathy and some taste.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/70 "2021-03-22T18:27:59Z")
[**Doctor, please**](https://www.google.com/search?q=mother%27s+little+helper+lyrics&oq=mother%27s+little+helper+lyrics&aqs=chrome..69i57.3385j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8).
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/71 "2021-03-22T18:42:40Z")
I’ll have what she’s having.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/72 "2021-03-22T20:10:45Z")
I sang the same thing to my kid. He hated it! He turned out ok, finally.
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### Author:  [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/73 "2021-03-22T20:14:10Z")
> [@Morgyn](#):
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> My folks would respond, “Wantings not getting,” to that.
The one I recall hearing is “People in hell want ice water, too.”
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/74 "2021-03-22T20:39:31Z")
How does it feel to want? 🤔
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### Author:  [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/75 "2021-03-26T02:15:41Z")
That’s the reply I got from my mom!
~VOW
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### Author:  [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/76 "2021-03-26T02:49:45Z")
My dad was slightly ruder, but the message was pretty much the same. (wish in one hand…)
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/77 "2021-03-26T08:06:42Z")
In my family it was " ‘I want’ doesn’t get"
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/78 "2021-03-26T08:23:14Z")
Given the slate the GQP had in 2020, this woman’s probably angling for (and might legitimately get) a speaking slot at the 2024 Republican National Convention at the rate she’s going.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/79 "2021-03-26T11:57:47Z")
This guy climbed 20 stories up a crane and refused to come down. He’s finally down now. This city, I swear… SMH
> **[Drugs may have been a factor in man's 15-story downtown Houston crane ascent,...](https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2191207083809/man-jumps-fence-climbs-15-20-stories-up-construction-crane-in-downtown-houston)**
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> Officers say the suspect walked on the catwalk on top and briefly operated the crane before its power supply was cut off by construction workers.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-idiot-arrested/937847/80 "2021-03-26T12:47:02Z")
Maybe we should put no-mask woman and crane man in the same cell and see what hellspawn results.
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