Have you ever noticed how people latch onto seemingly innocuous words which, if you’re not paying very close attention, just don’t seem to be worth all that much thought? You know, like when the customer service rep tells you that they are “processing” something, even though it’s not going to come out the other end as American cheese? Well, the new word is Database. Add it to the list.
From the Orlando Sentinel :
When Janet Lovett took her 7-year-old son to the city’s Splash Park this spring, she never thought police would slap handcuffs on her and haul her off to the Lake County Jail after her T-shirt and bra became wet.
Lovett was arrested because she refused to give an officer her name after she was told to cover up. She was booked on a misdemeanor count of obstructing an officer without violence.
And what brought the heavy hand of the law down upon her wet t-shirted motherly shoulders?
Cpl. Tammy Bozadjian said she needed Lovett’s name to put into a city database.
“The defendant [Lovett] became upset and would not provide her information,” Bozadjian wrote in the incident report. “I again explained that the information was only for the data base. She again refused to provide the information, stating that she needed to speak with her husband first. I then informed the defendant that if she refused to provide her information that she would be placed under arrest.”
Dammit, Janet. It’s only for the database. Of course, there’s a backstory, where it turns out that Janet Lovett is a recidivist wet t-shirter, though there’s no indication whether the database is implicated only after a women’s t-shirt is soaked multiple times or merely one time will do.
While this scenario plays over and over when a person engages in contempt of cop, it’s ordinarily a matter of the officer directing the person to “move along” or “stop filming or you’ll be raped in jail.” There’s now a new excuse to be added to the pantheon of Police commands.
The good news is that prosecutors refused to pursue the charges, apparently being as yet unaware of the need to put every mom in a wet t-shirt into the database.
“What kind of database would they put her in? A database for wet T-shirt wearers?” Marks asked. “She wasn’t there to cause trouble…They’re either absolutely incompetent or they don’t know the law.”
Lubins said police asked for her name because they were called out to the park and told that she had been warned before about her attire.
“We would be remiss if we didn’t take down her name,” he said.
Let it never be said that I was in favor of the police being remiss in their duty to the database.
H/T The Turk
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I need your name because… I’m an inspector for the City’s Department of Babeliciousness! Yeah, that’s the ticket… I’m responsible for tracking all women with wet T-shirts, tube tops, or soft, clingy lace camisols…
Sorry, Windypundit…
My need to put you in my database of potential sex offenders trumps your mere desire to augment your little black book.
Please comment on the Colton Harris-Moore case. The NEW YORK TIMES had a story on this case on July 22, 2010. The story was written by William Yardley, and both the story and a lot of the comments following the story discussed how a community’s failure to help neglected and abused children contributes to delinquency.
In the HUFFINGTON POST on July 19, 2010, Diane Dimond wrote a thoughtful story on this same topic.
If we as a society could help these kids while they’re growing up, it would help prevent so much tragedy and heartache later on.
Sorry Beth, but I don’t do requests at SJ.
“Dammit Janet.” Maybe I am the only one who recollected, instantly, where you got that. Who cares? I got a kick out of it.
Thank you for noticing.
What is really needed is a national database of corrupt, bullying, and incompetent cops (like Cpl.Tammy Bozadijian) and all of their supervisors/enablers/protectors.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Remiss is a fancy word that means “I totally know what I’m talking about.”
Yup. Thanks.
Yup, Rocky Horror, a mindless night out. Toast, newspapers, squirt guns and dancing that dance in the aisle the name of which is unmentionable on a G-rated blog. ; ]
Not only can you mention away, but . . .
[Ed. Note: I originally included a video of the Time Warp here, but couldn’t figure out how to stop the autoplay, which is horribly annoying, so I removed it. Sorry for the inconvenience.]
Ugh, autoplaying video in comments should be a bannable offense.
Oh crap. I didn’t realize it was on autoplay. Sorry. I’m going to try to make it stop immediately.
OK, no worries, it was just an idea I hoped you would consider…but I know you probably don’t have time to consider ideas from random people
it’s a fairly well-known West Coast case, and like a lot of other people, I’ve been following it…I’m concerned that prosecutors haven’t been really open about the discovery process and sharing information with the defense attorneys…the defense attorneys are John Henry Browne and Emma Scanlan of Seattle
No worries? You’re too kind.