A geography geek! You poor thing. Would you like the number for your local Assisted Suicide Support line?
Probably didn’t have a gun, either . . .
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.)
Cue Aerosmith:
Opie’s got a gun chicka wang wang
Opie’s got a gun *chicka wang wang…
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What did his Daddy do? Boy’s got a minus IQ!!..
Opie’s got a gun chicka wang wang…
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.
Thanks.
I have family in Phoenix. I know how he keeps getting re-elected; the public is clinically insane.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Perhaps living in a desert addles the brain?
Barney was in plainclothes.
Sheriff Joe is an arrogant, egotistical, showboating, borderline crazy attention whore. He’s a fvcking joke.