The good guys can’t shoot straight
I hate it when I’m right. Thankfully that doesn’t happen very
often. But for over half a year now I have said that the Hollister
deputy sheriff who shot that young man who died later is almost the
fault of the sheriff, his crack detectives and deputy sheriffs who
seemingly turned their heads when they knew there was something
troubling about this officer. Now a reserve officer testifies that
he worked for 15 years with the rogue deputy when his supervising
officer brings a prostitute back to their motel and she is roughed
up and thrown on the bed while yelling
”
No! No!
”
He said he should have arrested his supervisor on the spot but
didn’t because he was his boss. So the deputies’ oath in Hollister
reads
”
I will arrest your boss and anyone I see in the commission of a
crime except my boss
”
?
The good guys can’t shoot straight
I hate it when I’m right. Thankfully that doesn’t happen very often. But for over half a year now I have said that the Hollister deputy sheriff who shot that young man who died later is almost the fault of the sheriff, his crack detectives and deputy sheriffs who seemingly turned their heads when they knew there was something troubling about this officer. Now a reserve officer testifies that he worked for 15 years with the rogue deputy when his supervising officer brings a prostitute back to their motel and she is roughed up and thrown on the bed while yelling “No! No!” He said he should have arrested his supervisor on the spot but didn’t because he was his boss. So the deputies’ oath in Hollister reads “I will arrest your boss and anyone I see in the commission of a crime except my boss”?
But the sheriff, instead of giving the errant deputy less time in uniform, gives him more overtime than any other officer to the point where this deputy made more money than the San Benito County district attorney. Aye chee waa waa.
Speaking of Dirty Harry, even Clint Eastwood is no match for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor just fired Clint from the state Park Commission. Hope Eastwood survives the pay cut.
Last week I mentioned that the law in Hollister is slower than granny trying to get them back in her bra. San Juan Bautista Mayor George Dias was just a councilman when a deputy from the highly esteemed San Benito County Sheriff’s Department arrested him for doing bodily harm to a deputy. Hey, that’s the deputy’s job. It seemed like a simple case. The case has again been postponed until April. To April? Exactly a year from when the alleged incident happened. Did I mention that after the so-called bodily harm to the deputy Dias became mayor?
Hollister has more churches and ministers than Hillary Clinton has lies. But one man in Hollister has straightened out more people than all the ministers, priests and rabbis in San Benito County. Dr. Brandon the chiropractor whose ad in the Pinnacle keeps the crooked coming in and the straightened going out. About the only person he couldn’t turn straight was me. His ad works because it has all the ingredients for a great ad to work: a friendly face, large type phone number, the all important “se habla Español” and located behind McDonald’s.
Tony Bruscia was my favorite Hollister mayor despite my campaigning against him. He was always good for a paragraph each week as he would say the damndest things. A few weeks ago the reporter of the Fifty Cent Lance wanted to know what the former mayor thought of Hollister electing a mayor at large. Tony, with his usual Bruscianism, said he was afraid that the change might make the election of a mayor a popularity contest. What a shocker indeed. An election being a popularity contest. Now let’s see how in hell did Tony become mayor? His intellect?
Loved that poll in the Hollister twice a week daily. The question was “should authorities probe a developer’s testimony (Richard Ferreira) that a former supervisor (Bob Cruz) solicited a $170,000 bribe? A whopping 71 percent said “no.” Aye chee waa waa!
How many Los Angeles SWAT officers have been killed in action? Is it 210, 122 or 69? Only one, and that was last month. Only one is more than enough but isn’t it amazing how movies and television give you a different perception of the truth. Kind of like Hillary.
Facts you should know that will make you seem smarter and more beautiful than you already are: Aaron Rodgers, who will replace Brett Favre as Green Bay Packers quarterback, was 8 years old when Favre became their quarterback.
Getting thrown out of the Whiskey Creek and Johnny’s Bar and Grill in Hollister was much more fun than when I’m thrown out of my favorite bar here in Hollywood. In Hollister the bartender would yell “Hey Bob! Get your fat arse out of here you drunken bum.” In Hollywood where every bartender is a budding actor one especially just comes to me and with a wide gesture, “Robert, my good man, you must amend your drunkenness.”
