# Sheriff Arpaio gets schooled **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 29, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938 "2014-10-29T21:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/81 "2014-11-04T00:29:10Z")
A geography geek! You poor thing. Would you like the number for your local Assisted Suicide Support line? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/82 "2014-11-04T02:36:54Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Andy Griffith was the keynote speaker at the banquet and _he_ didn’t have an entourage, ffs. Probably didn’t have a gun, either . . . ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/83 "2014-11-04T02:50:07Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I hope you like pink . . . Serious question. Is his outfit the only one in Arizona that has its prisoners wear pink, or are there others? (This question came up during a conversation this afternoon.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/84 "2014-11-04T02:54:31Z")
Cue Aerosmith: Opie’s got a gun _chicka wang wang_ Opie’s got a gun \*chicka wang wang… \* What did his Daddy do? Boy’s got a minus IQ!!.. Opie’s got a gun _chicka wang wang_… ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/85 "2014-11-04T15:07:30Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Serious question. Is his outfit the only one in Arizona that has its prisoners wear pink, or are there others? Mason, TX has them now, following in his footsteps. Note that Arpaio’s publicly stated reason was to prevent prisoners from stealing them (though I among others doubts this is the real reason), while Mason openly announced it’s a humiliation tactic. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/86 "2014-11-04T15:22:03Z")
Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/87 "2014-11-04T17:29:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, Maricopa County does, anyway. Still, considering that county includes a major metropolitan city, Phoenix, it is rather perplexing how he keeps getting re-elected. I have family in Phoenix. I know how he keeps getting re-elected; the public is clinically insane. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/88 "2014-11-04T17:43:30Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Probably didn’t have a gun, either . . . No, not _a_ gun. He was in a banquet hall full of sheriffs who had guns and who seemed\_to a one\_to just absolutely adore him. He had _hundreds_ of guns. It really was kind of heart-warming to see the childlike happiness on all their faces when he came to the podium. I didn’t have a seat near him to say for sure, but I’d honestly be surprised if Arpaio failed to put aside his need for attention while Andy Griffith was there. The Andy Taylor character is, I think, how many of them would like to be in real life. Not necessarily the no gun thing, but calm and wise and well-loved by their community. Others, though, will settle for being an attention-whoring fascist. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/89 "2014-11-04T19:37:01Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Note that Arpaio’s publicly stated reason was to prevent prisoners from stealing them . . . Why should the county even care? I doubt those underpants cost very much, and to take them back when an inmate is released and re-issue them to another seems kinda gross, even if they’re laundered first. (BTW, a friend of mine who was in a county jail in Florida had some nasty stories about how they do laundry there – the machine is crammed so full the clothes are hardly agitated at all, and if she re-washed an item in a sink later, black stuff would come out.) They should be treated as disposable. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/90 "2014-11-04T19:45:15Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Why should the county even care? I don’t disagree. Every other jurisdiction that has considered it has admitted it is primarily to emasculate their own prisoners. Actually, that should be “every” jurisdiction, including Maricopa county. It’s disheartening that some people think that’s a good enough reason by itself. So much for basic human dignity. I do find his awful attempts at presenting a respectable veneer to be amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/91 "2014-11-04T22:17:49Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I have family in Phoenix. I know how he keeps getting re-elected; the public is clinically insane. Not every one, you brain dead cretin! Maybe your family, but not mine. In the last three elections his margins of victory have been 50-44, 55-42 and 56-30-12. Hardly unanimous. There are plenty of people who want him out, turns out there are just a _few_ more that want him to stay. Whaddya gonna do? That’s democracy for ya. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/92 "2014-11-04T22:33:18Z")
So we’re agreed then that not everyone, and in fact only 50-56% of the public, is clinically insane. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/93 "2014-11-04T23:33:37Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > So we’re agreed then that not everyone, and in fact only 50-56% of the public, is clinically insane. I can get behind that… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/94 "2014-11-05T00:18:23Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > So we’re agreed then that not everyone, and in fact only 50-56% of the public, is clinically insane. Perhaps living in a desert addles the brain? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/95 "2014-11-05T18:48:29Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Andy Griffith was the keynote speaker at the banquet and _he_ didn’t have an entourage, ffs. Barney was in plainclothes. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938/96 "2014-11-05T23:35:01Z")
Sheriff Joe is an arrogant, egotistical, showboating, borderline crazy attention whore. He’s a fvcking joke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-arpaio-gets-schooled/702938.md?page=4)