Not to take away any credibility from your perfectly fine post - I just like that phrase in isolation.
Lucky it was NJ. If it had been, say, Texas, this story would almost certainly have been posted in Stupid Gun News instead. Not that there is much of anything in Texas that someone would fell a bunch of trees to look at it. I mean, I am still not getting why anyone would want to be looking at NYC.
I’m here, they’re there - a beautiful sight!
Dan
One doesn’t have many opportunities to type that in good faith.
If I hadn’t already known the basics of the story, however, some of their wording was very misleading (e.g. calling the guilty party a “sapling slasher” or something like that, just for a snappy phrase, when the whole point was that these were big mature trees).
A friend lives on property in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. He wanted to build an outdoor aviary to house his toucans. This would require the removal of two mature trees.
He had to apply for a permit to cut down the trees. He had to plant two replacement trees for each cut down (so four total). Well, that’s a thing in the area and people with property where trees can be planted charge $$$ to allow you to plant. He ended up scraping his plans as the tree fees were ~$10,000 per tree planted.
Anyone dressed as McGruff or his little friend is likely involved in law enforcement at some level. One guy didn’t realize that:
[T]he suspect unexpectedly hit her in the back of the head. The force of the blow was allegedly so forceful that it reportedly caused the officer to lose her balance and nearly fell to the ground.
Acting swiftly, the officer removed the head of the mascot costume, revealing her identity as a officer.
But why did he hit her n the first place? I need a motive! Not that any motive excuses him. But the story just seems incomplete.
@eschereal - I realize that Texas is an easy place to make fun of due to its shitty politicians, but I’m a Texan. There are many beautiful places in Texas, and it’s impolite to diss a huge state like that.
OK, so what is the polite way to diss a huge state?
Some people like attacking costumed mascots for no particular reason. Maybe he never grew out of that stage.
I want to know if he used a rolled-up newspaper.
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If I was on the jury and the guy claimed he thought the officer was Scrappy Doo, I would have a hard time convicting him.
Charge him with both assaulting an officer and cruelty to animals.
Why didn’t he shoot her? This is America, goddamnit!
The exact phrasing was reported a number of ways by contemporaneous newspaper accounts, but sources generally agree that about 150 years ago, on a hot August day in San Antonio, the distinguished and dust-caked General Philip Sheridan uttered, “If I owned Texas and all Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.”
Okay, that’s pretty good.
Another report says he was incoherent during the initial contact so it’s likely he doesn’t know, either.
Might have thought it was a furry groomer.
I was all ready to create a “Phil Sheridan was right!” T-shirt with an outline of Texas on it before I found out that he also has been attributed with the statement “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” and the ambiguity could lead to a really rude interpretation.
Nabbed from @DavidNRockies from P&E but tell me this doesn’t belong here.