Stop the conspiracy theory's....... I have not recieved a call from the Chief. I have been busy at work and with my duties as a Father and in case you didn't know it's tournament time.
I am working on two stories. The Lake Leota fiasco and the very important School Board Elections.
Check back tomorrow.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Friday, March 9, 2007
Police Dept. Short handed?
While reading the recent news about ex officer Fitters I discovered the Evansville Police Dept at full staffing employs 8 full time employees and 7 part time employees. That seems like a lot of cops for a city of 5000 people. For arguments sake I took the liberty of writing a work schedule. Now I can’t imagine we need any more than 2 officers on at a time but I put 3 officers on both Friday and Saturday nights. You know the routine unruly bar patrons, drinking and driving, busting up underage drinking parties, curfew violators, etc.
Here’s the Schedule:
I put this together in about 5 min. As you can see I am using only the 7 FT officers currently on staff plus the one FT officer on light duty. What does a cop on light duty do all day?
I have all of the shifts covered with a 1 full timer on a week’s vacation and another with 2 days. All of the part timers are on 24 hours a week as 32 hours is considered full time in most occupations. I realize that they will occasionally have court dates set up that can easily be accomplished by jogging a couple part timers around and cutting hours the next week. You will also not have 2 officers on vacation in the same week and the one on light duty won’t be there forever.
So this begs the question. Do we need 8 full time police officers on our force? I believe Fitters made around a $52,000.00 salary and a package of around $67,000.00 when you add in benefits.
Don’t get me wrong I enjoy living in a safe community. One where I don’t feel I have to lock my front door to go to my neighbors house, where I can leave my car running while I run in for a cup of coffee or not lock it when it’s sitting in my driveway in the middle of the day.
I’m just wondering if we really need 15 officers on our Police Dept. Payroll.
If anyone has more insight on the way their schedule is set up please post.
What do you think?
Here’s the Schedule:
I put this together in about 5 min. As you can see I am using only the 7 FT officers currently on staff plus the one FT officer on light duty. What does a cop on light duty do all day?I have all of the shifts covered with a 1 full timer on a week’s vacation and another with 2 days. All of the part timers are on 24 hours a week as 32 hours is considered full time in most occupations. I realize that they will occasionally have court dates set up that can easily be accomplished by jogging a couple part timers around and cutting hours the next week. You will also not have 2 officers on vacation in the same week and the one on light duty won’t be there forever.
So this begs the question. Do we need 8 full time police officers on our force? I believe Fitters made around a $52,000.00 salary and a package of around $67,000.00 when you add in benefits.
Don’t get me wrong I enjoy living in a safe community. One where I don’t feel I have to lock my front door to go to my neighbors house, where I can leave my car running while I run in for a cup of coffee or not lock it when it’s sitting in my driveway in the middle of the day.
I’m just wondering if we really need 15 officers on our Police Dept. Payroll.
If anyone has more insight on the way their schedule is set up please post.
What do you think?
Marriage Spells Death to the Lady's Libido
Tell us something we didn't know. Just another reason to never get married. Click here for the Fox News article.
Classic post from Slammer
Slow news day. I'm working on a couple new ones but you'll have to wait until tomorrow. In the meantime.......................
Click here! For one of Slammers classic posts.
Click here! For one of Slammers classic posts.
I was right
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Kids ( I did ) do stupid things
I was going through some old boxes last night trying to see what I could get rid of when I came across some old elementary school pictures. This got me thinking of some of the stupid things I did as a kid and one story in particular had me laughing quite hard at myself although I didn'tfind it so funny at the time.
I was around eight years old and found a piece of string I would say 6 – 8 inches long. After pulling on it, tying it around a couple things and twirling it into a little ball with my fingers I for whatever reason stuck it in my mouth. Not too long after I swallowed it. Being eight I thought nothing of it.
Until two days later…………
I’m sitting on the toilet taking a dump. No big deal right? I do it every everyday.
Everything came out great except…………..
I wipe and wipe and there’s still something there. I try to take a look to no avail so I skootch over to the mirror and there it is THE STRING dangling maybe 3 inches out of my ass. I’m completely mortified. What do I do?
Here’s what came to my eight year old mind.
1.Holler for my Mom? That one was short lived. How in the hell do I explain this?
2.Wipe some more? No way, my ass is already sore from the first fifteen times I tried.
3. Do nothing and wait until next time? This one actually sounded good for awhile. I
could not however figure out what to do with this string. There was No Way I
was touching it, it had poop on it. So I thought if I swung my ass back and forth
hard enough it would stick to my ass cheek and I wouldn’t even know it’s there.
This actually worked! I skootched over to the mirror again and sure enough it’s
stuck to my right ass cheek. I even pulled up my Batman underoo’s but it felt
wet,dirty & terrible. So onto plan number 4.
4. Pull it out? I’m pretty sure I turned white as a ghost when I came to the conclusion
this was the only way. I again head over to the mirror to check out the situation
knowing exactly what I had to do. I reached for some toilet paper, no way I was
touching the poop string with my bare hands. I tried to grab the string, cringed and missed. Thing’s in the mirror are backwards, I was not thinking of this in my
most desperate moment of my eight short year’s of life. One more time I
thought and I’m going to have to go back to dreaded option #1. So again I cringe
this time I get the string but wait. Do I pull it out slowly or give it a good yank? I
decide slowly is better and off I go. In what seemed like hours the string was out.
The Moral of this story? Don’t stick things in your mouth you don’t want to shit out later.
I was around eight years old and found a piece of string I would say 6 – 8 inches long. After pulling on it, tying it around a couple things and twirling it into a little ball with my fingers I for whatever reason stuck it in my mouth. Not too long after I swallowed it. Being eight I thought nothing of it.
Until two days later…………
I’m sitting on the toilet taking a dump. No big deal right? I do it every everyday.
Everything came out great except…………..
I wipe and wipe and there’s still something there. I try to take a look to no avail so I skootch over to the mirror and there it is THE STRING dangling maybe 3 inches out of my ass. I’m completely mortified. What do I do?
Here’s what came to my eight year old mind.
1.Holler for my Mom? That one was short lived. How in the hell do I explain this?
2.Wipe some more? No way, my ass is already sore from the first fifteen times I tried.
3. Do nothing and wait until next time? This one actually sounded good for awhile. I
could not however figure out what to do with this string. There was No Way I
was touching it, it had poop on it. So I thought if I swung my ass back and forth
hard enough it would stick to my ass cheek and I wouldn’t even know it’s there.
This actually worked! I skootched over to the mirror again and sure enough it’s
stuck to my right ass cheek. I even pulled up my Batman underoo’s but it felt
wet,dirty & terrible. So onto plan number 4.
4. Pull it out? I’m pretty sure I turned white as a ghost when I came to the conclusion
this was the only way. I again head over to the mirror to check out the situation
knowing exactly what I had to do. I reached for some toilet paper, no way I was
touching the poop string with my bare hands. I tried to grab the string, cringed and missed. Thing’s in the mirror are backwards, I was not thinking of this in my
most desperate moment of my eight short year’s of life. One more time I
thought and I’m going to have to go back to dreaded option #1. So again I cringe
this time I get the string but wait. Do I pull it out slowly or give it a good yank? I
decide slowly is better and off I go. In what seemed like hours the string was out.
The Moral of this story? Don’t stick things in your mouth you don’t want to shit out later.
Breaking News! Arson at Angus Haus?
The Observer doesn't have this one yet!
Click here for the Channel 15 article.
This should really come as no surprise as the ATF does not normally get involved unless the Fire Marshall calls them in.
Anyone have any theory's? I'd love to hear them. I'll post mine tomorrow.
Click here for the Channel 15 article.
This should really come as no surprise as the ATF does not normally get involved unless the Fire Marshall calls them in.
Anyone have any theory's? I'd love to hear them. I'll post mine tomorrow.
Holy Fuck a Rony
Have you all had the opportunity to see your gas bill? I about fell over when I opened mine to the tune of $143.60. Now mind you I turn the thermostat down to 60 degrees from 7am-4pm 68 degrees from 4pm-9pm and 64 degrees from 9pm-7am. I can't even fathom how high the bill bill would have been at a constant 68 degrees.
Are they getting this shit from the Middle East?
How bad was your bill?
Are they getting this shit from the Middle East?
How bad was your bill?
Sgt Fitters Resigns over Moonshining?
03/06/07
Talk about a new twist. Rumor has it our own Sgt. Fitters was making some “Home Brew” (apparently it something like a mix of Apple Cider and Everclear ) and distributing it to some of our local taverns. After a year of accusations; providing alcohol to minors (Was it his “Home Brew”?) & pressuring a 20 year old girl to have sex.
He served a 60 day unpaid suspension for the above accusations. He is currently being investigated by the state Department of Revenue's Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement division. See the connection?
While I personally had no problems with the ex Sergeant it was high time that a man who thought he was above the law is no longer able to “Protect and Serve” the people of Evansville.
Let’s hope the Police Commission really does it’s homework before hiring Fitters replacement. It’s been a rough last year for the Police Department. Officer Jones and the $25,000.00 judgment. Officer Booth’s resignation? (That still pisses me off he was the best cop we had in this city.) and now this.
If this kind of behavior continues the next time the Police Commission gets together to hire someone it may be a new Police Chief.
Talk about a new twist. Rumor has it our own Sgt. Fitters was making some “Home Brew” (apparently it something like a mix of Apple Cider and Everclear ) and distributing it to some of our local taverns. After a year of accusations; providing alcohol to minors (Was it his “Home Brew”?) & pressuring a 20 year old girl to have sex.
He served a 60 day unpaid suspension for the above accusations. He is currently being investigated by the state Department of Revenue's Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement division. See the connection?
While I personally had no problems with the ex Sergeant it was high time that a man who thought he was above the law is no longer able to “Protect and Serve” the people of Evansville.
Let’s hope the Police Commission really does it’s homework before hiring Fitters replacement. It’s been a rough last year for the Police Department. Officer Jones and the $25,000.00 judgment. Officer Booth’s resignation? (That still pisses me off he was the best cop we had in this city.) and now this.
If this kind of behavior continues the next time the Police Commission gets together to hire someone it may be a new Police Chief.
Monday, March 5, 2007
Where are they Now?
Just Wondering what has happened to a few of the more prominent bloggers from our area.
EvilleAlderFred? Last post Dec 4th '06
CUUE? Last post Mar 17th '06
Evansville Skate Club? First and last post Nov 2nd '06
Now to be honest with you I could give a rat's ass about any of these people or what they stand for. They did however provide a mild form of entertainment.
Who can forget Fred's holier than thou attitude. If you didn't agree with him you were not allowed to post.
Or CUUE's ridiculous Bring them Home Now stance. If you think shit is fucked up now let the looney left have their way
.
The "New" Evansville Skatepark Project. The first $20,000.00 wasn't enough. The future convicts got bored and vandalized our City pool.
Do I miss them? No, they would however give me plenty to write about if they kept their Blogs up to date.
EvilleAlderFred? Last post Dec 4th '06
CUUE? Last post Mar 17th '06
Evansville Skate Club? First and last post Nov 2nd '06
Now to be honest with you I could give a rat's ass about any of these people or what they stand for. They did however provide a mild form of entertainment.
Who can forget Fred's holier than thou attitude. If you didn't agree with him you were not allowed to post.
Or CUUE's ridiculous Bring them Home Now stance. If you think shit is fucked up now let the looney left have their way
.
The "New" Evansville Skatepark Project. The first $20,000.00 wasn't enough. The future convicts got bored and vandalized our City pool.
Do I miss them? No, they would however give me plenty to write about if they kept their Blogs up to date.
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Name this Blog
Here it goes.......... Now that we have lost Slammer ( We miss you Man!) It's time to start a blog where "We the People of Evansville can make our voices heard" Most of the discussion here will be local and state politics and issues I believe affect us the taxpayers and my take on them. You will however find occasional bits of sports, humor, neighborhood happenings and Madonna Marketing.
Now I need your help. I am having trouble coming up with a fitting name. So I am having a Name this Blog contest. I know there are plenty of people out there who are much more creative than I. So please submit and submit often. I will then have the 3 people who will read this Blog vote. Majority rules.
There are some very interesting things going on in our Community. I can't wait to hear your thoughts.
Now I need your help. I am having trouble coming up with a fitting name. So I am having a Name this Blog contest. I know there are plenty of people out there who are much more creative than I. So please submit and submit often. I will then have the 3 people who will read this Blog vote. Majority rules.
There are some very interesting things going on in our Community. I can't wait to hear your thoughts.
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