Ruminations

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Hot Diggity-Dawg!

How stupid? How utterly unaware, oblivious? How completely enthralled with their own agendas, wedded to their singular egos and incapable of imbibing the most fundamental of society's observances? Well, there are the occasional instructive stories of what people get up to, that just boggle the mind and leave one gap-mouthed in astonishment.

That there are adults in chronological years, but arrested in juvenile self-absorption, is no secret to anyone in modern society, witnessing events that betray peoples' inability to behave intelligently. And strange things seem to happen in some places in particular. In particular, British Columbia seems so often to host peculiar people. Although this could have happened anywhere.

How about the pathetic value of a thief politely enquiring of a home owner when would be the best time to drop over? Something quite similar occurred at an Abbotsford police station. Police - you know, those who are trained and authorized by society to ensure that law and order among the populace is observed, and when malfeasance is occurred, the law-breakers be apprehended?

Yet here was a pair, a 22-year-old male with his 21-year-old female companion, both entering a police station to take possession of a previously-impounded driving license belonging to the woman. Seized by police for impaired driving, who issued a roadside suspension to the woman. She was only seeking the restoration of that which was hers.

They arrived in his truck. And parked it outside the police station. In an area with clear signage that read "police vehicles only". When they presented themselves within the station to conduct the business they had arrived for, it was evident that she was under the influence of alcohol. Which was when police thought they'd have a look at the truck, too.

Inside, said a police spokesperson was a revelation. "The vehicle contained both empty and full containers of beer." A sobriety test was then administered to the male driver. Whereupon his license too was seized by the police.

Dang it!

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