A nice old widow lives down the road for me. She has never in her 78 years been arrested – much less handcuffed – for anything. Until just the other day – when three vehicles from the County Sheriff’s Office arrived at her home at 9 p.m. to arrest and handcuff her because she didn’t leave a note under the windshield of a car she bumped into (and dented) with her car while maneuvering out of a parking spot at a shopping mall downtown.
Someone saw her impart the dent, took a picture of her car (and its license plate) and sent it to the cops. Cue the Hut! Hut! Hut!
She knows she ought to have left a note with her name/insurance info under the windshield of the car she dented – but she didn’t. It was wrong not to do that, of course. But was it right to sic three cop cars on her and arrest, cuff and cage her?
It seems a bit . . . much.
But it’s procedure now. The assumption is that anyone who commits a “hit and run” (which is technically what she did) actually did hit and run, as in someone. In that case – of course – summoning a platoon of armed cops to find (and arrest) the malefactor is a reasonable course of action. Someone having been at least injured (and given the implicit evil in hurting someone and just taking off). But this is a case of an old lady imparting a small dent into another car with hers while backing out of a parking spot. No one was hurt and the damage was very slight.
Would it not have more proportionate to maybe send one cop to her house – or even just call her up – and say: Look, you dented this person’s car and left without leaving your insurance info. That’s illegal. You need to get in touch with the owner of the other car and make arrangements to pay for the damages. 
Which she did.
Instead, she got charged with “hit and run” – and got the Hut! Hut! Hut! One of the three cops sent to deal with one 78-year-old lady with no criminal record (which they probably knew before the Hut! Hut! Hut! because they almost certainly checked her record and knew she had none) placed her in cuffs – because procedure – and she was taken to the local clink, where she remained for several hours until her daughter bonded her release.
Procedure does not allow for discretion. She told me the cop who cuffed her – a young man who appeared she said to be about 23 – seemed embarrassed, as he ought to have been. Because it’s really embarrassing – if you’re a 23-year-old man – to place a 78-year-old lady in handcuffs. Because it implies you’re either a pussy – or a sadist.
But nowadays, everyone who comes into contact with what is styled law enforcement is presumed to be Osama Bin Laden’s son and treated as a threat. I got a dose of this treatment myself just last summer when I was driving my old truck that had Farm Use tags on it. The old-style ones the state decreed had to be replaced with new-style ones. I had not gotten around to it and was out driving the truck. About three miles away from my place, I passed a couple of county law enforcers parked off by the side of the road in their brand-new $40,000 Explorers. As I passed them they both rooster-tailed after me, lights flashing – as if I’d done something.
I pulled over into the driveway of a cemetery. Two of them – dressed like they were expecting combat in Fallujah – leerily approached my old truck from behind. One did that weird thing they do; he touched my truck’s tailgate with his thumb to leave his fingerprint. You know, in case I turned out to be a dangerous on-the-loose felon and took them both out. One hesitantly approached my driver’s side open window; the other held back – just in case.
Mind: All because my old truck had the old-style Farm Use tags. They had no reason to consider me any kind of danger.
But . . . procedure.
We’re all indigs now.
Including 78-year-old ladies who ding cars in parking lots.
. . .
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Did they shoot her dog? (Procedure)
Hi Bill,
I’m glad they didn’t kick her door in and shoot her. She’s hard of hearing and goes to bed early. It could have gone very wrong.
When this happens, every single neighbor surrounding the home coming under attack by the policy overseers should arm up and surround the pigs, taking them cleanly out in a well-orchestrated cross-fire if they object.
The time has long come for neighbor to defend neighbor, rather than peeking from our windows thanking God it’s not us.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt . . .
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
I knew who wrote that.
Most/all of them are domestic terrorists now. They don’t work for the people anymore. We don’t sign their paychecks, so what do we expect? This is inevitable when the constitution does not have any provision whatsoever for people being able to fire them. And there is about 1% justice left in the justice system, which was designed to be corrupt from the first day. We don’t deserve this, but only we can fix it.
Trump should make it so he signs all their paychecks. And we people need to start building our own local security forces, alot bigger than theirs.
There is a lesson to be learned from the “French Revolution” regarding the policy overseers (police officers)…
They figured out that the best way to deal with the police, was to find out where they live…and go after their families.
If we want freedom HERE from the police…well…
There is another book, long out-of-print, that is a real “how-to” manual that provides possible solutions to our present-day problems as well as technical advice on “how to get the job done”.
Unintended Consequences by John Ross is such a valuable reference.
Long out-of-print but possibly being published by others, as well as being available for free as a pdf file, this book should be required reading for all who wish to peruse much-needed solutions for today’s political and social ills.
Ross weaves a fictional story with real facts, both historical and technical, being an easy, interesting but long read as it is approximately 800 pages in length. I read the book in one night, could not put it down.
When this book came out, sellers were routinely harassed by “three-letter agency” (FBI, ATF, DEA, etc.) types. The harassment of sellers by federal agencies shows the volatility of the contents of this book.
As a “hint” one premise of this book was that of public officials who had to “grow eyes in the back of their heads” and mostly hide in their lairs, fearing true retribution.
As it stands now, original hard copies of this book are going for hundreds of dollars.
I highly recommend all freethinking individuals of good character obtain and read this book. You will not be disappointed.
Snagged a .pdf and got my eyes on a copy at HPB…
Unintended Consequences by John Ross
https://archive.org/details/unintended-consequences-by-john-ross-audiobook
Unintended Consequences by John Ross
https://archive.org/details/unintended-consequences_202207
https://archive.org/details/unintended-consequences-by-John-Ross
I found it on oceanofpdf
After church tomorrow, I am going to repair a downed privacy fence for a young single mom. Windstorm blew it down several months ago. Bravo Foxtrot Delta. Someone reported her to the local police. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? She said the po po was in their normal Fallujah style combat garb to tell a young single mom to repair her fence. Makes perfect sense in modern ‘Merica.
‘But … procedure.’ — eric
When he was 16, my son had a learner’s permit with a 9 pm curfew. He got stopped a mile from our house at 9:10 pm. A phone call would have sufficed for us to go pick up the car, and him. Instead the car was towed off to an impound, ultimately costing several hundred dollars when storage fees were tacked on (probably a kickback arrangement with the corrupt cops).
Cops were once part of the community, and sought practical, low-impact solutions. A buddy who grew up in small-town Minnesota was stopped while consuming beer in the car. The cop made him and his friend walk home, and called his dad to come pick up the car on the roadside. That’s how civil society used to function in small towns.
Try to imagine that happening today. Local government functions more like an occupation force, with rigid rules. They don’t care what we think. But … procedure.
Indeed, Jim –
When we were 16, that’s almost certainly what would have happened. Heck, the cop would likely have told us – as 16 year olds: I’ll follow you home and maybe have a word with your Dad. That would have been the end of it. But that was before cops became “law enforcement.” I can remember when that term was used by jagoffs and mocked by normal people.
In defense of the new style, we were probably more worried about what dad would do to us than anything the LEOs could do to us. These days I imagine a fair number of parents will tell off the cop for ruining their enjoyment of the evening’s entertainment.
This disgusts me. Also, I’ve noticed that cops wear all this combat looking gear, why are they wearing all of that? Cops used to just have a gun, baton and taser. Some of these guys look like they’re going to war and expecting trouble. It doesn’t sit right with me that it’s that bad out there on “the streets- unless maybe NYC or Chicago)”.
‘why are they wearing all of that?’ — Lord James
The ‘fedgov’ entity in Washington DC shelled out hundreds of billions over the last 30 years to militarize local police.
Are you not grateful, citizen?
That’s what I was afraid of. It feels like an occupying military force.
American police departments ARE an occupying military force trained in israel to “see how its done. American police departments have been sending “trainers” to israel for decades now
We are all Palestinians or Gazans, now.
Do I believe it is stupid to handcuff and arrest a 78 year old woman? Absolutely, unequivocally yes. There is no reason to, but…she did cause damage and left the scene of the crime.
We keep saying life should be about personal responsibility and accountability, but then we all feign upset when they come after the person who actually caused the damage.
Oh, she only left a small dent, we cry. Then we moan and groan when our auto premiums come in 10, 15, 20% higher. I guess the person whose car was dented should have just eaten the cost, right? I am sure they have a few thousand lying around to cover it.
I have no issue with the police showing up at her home. As I stated above the handcuff and arrest are overkill, but Grandma needs to compensate for the damage she caused or she has zero business being behind the wheel of an automobile. The rest of us should not have to pay for her mishap.
Paint on a small dent is several thousand dollars anymore, and even the best body shop can’t duplicate the thickness and consistency of factory paint so even a minor repair will knock much more off of the used value of the vehicle.
Having actually worked in a body shop, not all dents even require paint work. There are quite a few methods of dent removal that are non-destructive.
Hi RG,
I agree as far as personal responsibility but a simple phone call would have sufficed, or maybe just one cop in regular uniform to visit. They knew it was an older woman from having looked up her info to find her address. It seems like every encounter with “authority” nowadays requires a full SWAT team to make sure us “civilians” know our place and like to rub our noses in it.
Hi Mike,
I agree with you that one cop in regular uniform would have been more than sufficient or a phone call to bring in her insurance information to the Sherriff’s Office in the next few days would have also worked.
Hi Mike,
That’s my position as well. My neighbor lady isn’t a criminal – and the cops knew this. They had her name and address – obviously – and so looked her up and knew she had no record, wasn’t “dangerous” and that she’s just an old lady who made a mistake involving no harm to anyone and minor damage to a vehicle from a parking lot bumping into. Jeasy peasy! Give her a call and tell her she needs to call the other party, provide insurance info – and maybe give her a ticket for failing to leave a note under the windshield of the other car. Sending three cop cars to her house at 9 p.m. (she’s in bed by then, like most people here age) was way over-the-top.
You’re bringing up a reasonable, “Proportional” response.
@Eric — We had an opportunity to see “The Blues Brothers” on a big screen a few weeks ago. Highly recommended if you ever get a chance and your only previous exposure to the film was on home video.
My wife had no clue as to why I was almost in tears laughing at “Hut hut hut hut hut hut hut”.
Thank you for enhancing my enjoyment of the film.
I felt like I was the only one in the theater laughing during the “Chez Paul” segment (“How much for the little girl”), and I know I was the only one giggling as the big screen showed of the brilliance of the production design in little details in the shots of the Illinois Nazi’s … clubhouse?
White Power!
BTW, pay attention at the end of the “Hut hut hut” sequence. I swear no less than Spielberg himself has a gun on Jake and Elwood before the cut to the prison scene.
Poor lady. Wow and also the Karen/Ken who took the picture then drove home and made it his/her business to report it to the police. How disgusting. This reminds me of the montage of calls placed to the covid snitch line they played on Jesse Watters the other day. All but one were women and all the calls were super cringeworthy.
My rule of thumb is that about half of the white population secretly aspires to be Rolf Gruber — the little sh*t with the whistle from “The Sound of Music” — particularly females of the demographic. The “pandemic” was a dream opportunity for a lot of them to literally blow the whistle and wait for the authorities to arrive, play the hut hut hut spectacle, and load the neighbors with the bad sod into boxcars, maybe even literally.
We stopped just short of opening camps in the US. Other countries were not so lucky.
It sure seemed to be – there was a woman in my own family who called to report on small businesses who might have been seen not masking (horror!).
Now that I am getting older I see the need to develop strategies to protect yourself from ageism. I definitely notice who gets better treatment and how they achieve this. It keeps me working hard in the gym for sure. It’s really encouraging to see strong, happy successful older people and I hope to be one of them!
I am going to do something RS that I rarely do. ..I am going to disagree with you.
Reporting someone who is minding their own business, like masking or keeping their business open against tyrannical governments is something all together different than actually causing physical damage to someone else’s property.
My guess is that Grandma didn’t just swing the door too far out, but left a large enough dent in the vehicle that it is specifically noticeable. How would any of us feel if we walked out after grocery shopping to find a portion of our car smashed in? I am sure most of us would be pissed. No note on the windshield apologizing for the damage and contact information would further increase our blood pressure.
Regardless of age, she did wrong. She should be responsible.
Should be non masking…
Yeah I would’ve lost it RG, some of us don’t have much more than our vehicle, protecting its value is important, I never park mine near other cars if I can help it.. I have witnessed in live time the severity of property damage that some elderly motorists will commit and then attempt to casually slink away from.. horrifying. Can’t imagine being that careless around other people’s property at any age, wasn’t raised like that. If your car is hitting other cars, it’s probably time to give up driving anyway before it can escalate to hitting people. And if you take off with no way for someone to contact you and they want their car repaired under insurance then they’re gonna have to get the stupid police report.
Shit happens sometimes, grocery carts go rolling, the wind gusts, it’s just not that hard to leave a note or head inside to find out whose day they probably just ruined, and generally in folksier areas a lot of times if ya at least talk to the owner then they may not even be all that miffed by it to bother dragging insurance into it, much less get a police report. My old jobs down there had some very crowded parking lots, and coworkers were often surprised at how understanding folks were, even with accidents beyond a door ding.
If she’s got that many years under her belt though, I have a hard time believing that she seriously did that without recognizing that cops would certainly be showing up to follow up on a hit and run.. I mean by 2025 we all know the definition of hit and run includes property. And if you’ve been conscious in the last decade, if you’ve looked out your car windows passing by traffic stops, then you also know that pigs only roll in gangs anymore.. so then if you engage both personal accountability and simple deductive reasoning, before ya skip the note, you would already know what’s gonna happen after you get home, and can think better of snubbing the owner of the car that ya just damaged.
I dunno what irks me worse about this one, the disrespect for other peoples property, or being so privileged as to claim to be totally unaware of what will trigger an AGW visit in this day and age, or being a parent above all else and having no basic awareness of AGW practices, policies and procedures.. this knowledge is essential for survival, it’s something you can see around you, or in the news, or by word of mouth, if you care enough to pay attention to what people are ultimately warning you of..
It’s very unfortunate it played out this way, and if it’s really all just a matter of old people error and probably cognitive decline contributing to obliviousness and bad judgment, then it’s the car keys that warranted arresting
Hi Moose,
I agree 100% with everything you have written.
Also, glad to see you back and posting.
Notice how none of this is designed to or will result in the dent being fixed.
Because the state made such a big deal out of this (thereby demonstrating the seriousness of the her actions), it will inevitably will lead to her daughter callously confronting her with: “Mom, we’ve decided you shouldn’t drive anymore. It’s time for you to sell your house and move into an assisted living facility.”
I was thinking the same thing. People of all ages drive away without leaving a note. When my mother got older it was the first time I saw how older people can be dismissed or disparaged and that hurt. It brings out the bully in some people to kick people when they’re down.
I had an old duffer back his CUV into our Mazda 6 (his rear bumper hit our rear fender) while we were both parked in a store parking lot and drive away. My wife and I were walking into the store when I heard the sound of bending sheet metal (it actually sounded like someone rolled over a beer can). He drove away and I didn’t think anything of it until we got home and I walked past the car and saw a big dent the size of my fist
and paint from his vehicle on our passenger side rear fender.
Well I was boned since I didn’t have his license plate number and the store didn’t have a video of him hitting me.
Supposing I did find him, would I want three cops in their tactical gear roaring up to his house with guns drawn and itching to handcuff him for driving off? No, a phone call telling him or his children he hit my car and owed me money for the repairs would suffice. Maybe I could talk to his children and suggest it was time for dad to hand over the keys
and the license 
before he hurt himself or someone else.
“ Mom, we’ve decided you shouldn’t drive anymore “
We had to pull the keys when mom was about 78. I joked with my brother “I’ll get some stencils and we can paint battle sortie scores on her left fender like WWII fighter planes”
Could have just sent her a citation in the mail.
I’m sure if anyone calls them out on this the oberfuhrer will come to their defense and mumble something about how they “went by the book”, officer safety and what a heroic job they did.
Whenever I see “In God We Trust” on a prowl car I assume it means everyone else is a suspect.
Fish heads are too good for them.
Morning, Mark!
I will not be surprised if the Hut! Hut! Hut! crew shows up at my door on account of me writing about this…
I wouldn’t be surprised. They will probably start off with the Good Cop passive aggressive attitude trying to make it about “your safety”; “Sir, we’re here to do a wellness check…”
I used to love visiting Floyd, VA but, no more. The wife and I used to stay in a small cabin on a creek about a mile from the BRP.
“by the book”, policy, whatever. It is designed by some unknown deity to alleviate people, who should otherwise have brains in their head, from being accountable.
It is hiding behind bureaucracy to engage in indefensible behavior.
Disgusting and yet the “Heroes” can’t seem to figure out why they are not respected. My guess is that most of them have the same attitude as Emperor Caligula did “Let them hate so long as they fear”.
If a real crime had taken place they wouldn’t have shown up for hours of course or at all.
Your quote of Caligula reminds me of what I recall Colin Powell said, “I’d rather be feared than respected”. (I stand to be corrected)
It certainly seems that is the attitude of most of those that carry a GovCo gun. The problem is at some point people will lose their fear and, because they don’t respect you, will have no mercy when they finally rebel. This applies not only on the individual level but, also the national. In other words, nations that the U.S. has been pushing around for years will have no mercy when the time comes.
‘Emperor Caligula … “Let them hate so long as they fear”.’ –quoted by Landru
Here’s a 2024 update:
‘Now, we Jews and Israel would never even consider such extreme tactics as the indiscriminate bombing of innocent civilians. Israel has always employed surgical strikes and continues to lose hundreds of soldiers because of it.
‘They will never like us. Let’s make sure they fear us.’
https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/jews-must-be-feared-rather-than-loved/
A sufficient number of ‘surgical strikes’ are indistinguishable from the carpet bombing of Dresden.
>employed surgical strikes
Now we know the meaning of the term “Jewish surgery.”
>[terror] bombing of Dresden
Or Hamburg, Berlin, Köln, and many other German cities
Terrorism: violence perpetrated against innocent people in an attempt to influence their political behavior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Village_(Dugway_Proving_Ground)
>Dugway was a high-security testing facility for chemical and biological weapons. The purpose of the replicas of German residential homes, which were repeatedly rebuilt after being intentionally burned down, was to perfect tactics in the fire bombing of German residential areas during World War II.
>The U.S. Army employed German [Jewish] émigré architects such as Erich Mendelsohn to create copies as accurate as possible of the dwellings of densely populated poorer quarters of Berlin. The main goal was to find a tactic to achieve a fire storm* in the city center.
*Thus creating a “burnt offering,” a.k.a. “Holocaust.”
Editor’s note:
If you do this and are on the losing side, you get hanged as a war criminal after the war.
If you do this and are on the winning side, you get a statue and a knighthood, and are affectionately known to your countrymen as “Bomber.” The only carpet involved is the red one which gets rolled out for the ceremony. Perhaps that is where the term originates.
Correct Adi,
General Curtis ‘bombs away’ LeMay stated that he would be tried as a war criminal if the US had lost. Don’t forget about the firebombing of Tokyo as well, I read that there were way more casualties from that than from Hiroshima’s a-bomb.
>General Curtis ‘bombs away’ LeMay stated that he would be tried as a war criminal if the US had lost.
>I read that there were way more casualties from that than from Hiroshima’s a-bomb.
Exactly, Mike.
There was a “Japanese village” as well as a “German village” built at Dugway.
Ever hear of the “bat bomb?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
>The inspiration for Adams’ suggestion was a trip he took to Carlsbad Caverns National Park,
>Adams stated that the bat was the “lowest form of animal life”, and that, until now, “reasons for its creation have remained unexplained”.[4]: 6 He went on to espouse that bats were created “by God to await this hour to play their part in the scheme of free human existence, and to frustrate any attempt of those who dare desecrate our way of life.
Translation: God created bats to help Americans napalm Japanese cities (and civilians).
> Of Adams, Roosevelt remarked, “This man is not a nut.”
If you say so, Frank.
FWIW:
My Dad was trained as a bombardier at Carlsbad NM AAF.
Had the war not ended when it did, he would have been part of the conventional bombing campaign against Japan, which no doubt would have involved incendiaries.
Air crews had notoriously short life expectancies in WWII. It is possible to argue, though I do not do so, that I and my siblings, as well as many others, owe our lives to the atomic bomb. A “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” point of view, to be sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9xmV3wiEo
My sister lives within eyeball distance of Manzano Base, a.k.a. “Site Able.” On a regular schedule, the nuclear bombs stored there get transported via armored semi truck to the Pantex plant near Amarillo TX for refurbishment, then brought back to Albuquerque and returned to storage.
I don’t know the exact number, but I know there are enough nuclear explosives there to destroy the world as we know it. And that is only *one* U..S. site…
Gaza and the west Bank are being “acquired” by the jews utilizing a “scorched earth” policy, transmitted to the jews by their “god”.
NOTHING is to remain alive. Millennia-old historical buildings are being destroyed by the jews “just because they can”.
The USA is sending the jews more “bunker buster” bombs.
What the hell is wrong with the USA?
Jews are so brazen in their behavior, NYC synagogues are advertising Gaza waterfront property for sale openly. Even the synagogue where evidence of child sacrifices taking place is in on the land grab.
It’s all a land grab.
This #noticing
Many of us notice.
If a real crime had taken place they wouldn’t have shown up for hours of course or at all. – Landru
The big pivot in the drone world these days is to convince local PDs to develop a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program. This involves getting a waiver from the FAA to operate remote drones all over the city, housed in small docking stations, ready to fly at a moment’s notice. A remote pilot is stationed at dispatch or wherever. When a call comes in, the closest drone is launched to scope out the situation from above. It then transmits video (visual and thermal cameras) back to the desk sergeant(?) or whomever can make a decision to dispatch the appropriate ground forces to subdue the criminal.
At least that’s how it works in the demo.
My guess is that in reality there will be hundreds of false positives as people who just happen to be in the neighborhood are stopped, guilty of walking down the street with a heat signature. Or maybe they’ll find that dead body in the woods a little faster than the hounds. Either way, to cover even a medium sized city using today’s drone tech will require hundreds of aircraft ($25K each) and docs ($$$$), and all the ancillary equipment such as 5G radios and data relays to maintain reliable command and control channels.
As long as the operation is a little bit cheaper than running Blue Thunder it will be considered successful. Now, even your little podunk town out in the sticks can have aerial support! Be sure to reach out to your Skydio sales representative to find out about federal grants that are available! You might be able to get a DFR program up and running with no money!
> A remote pilot is stationed at dispatch [@ Creech AFB]
> dispatch the appropriate ground forces to [take out the target].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cphFbBGY2MQ
Oh yea, that’s what the big boys are selling. Except now they’re handing them out to every platoon, every base command, putting a drone on the back of every convoy vehicle:
https://www.avinc.com/lms/switchblade-600
How long before the first responders demand “non lethal” weapons payloads on their DFR platforms?
Two words, RK:
Military surplus.