Category: Dumbass Bullshit

Chip sends us a link to the story of Tara Marie Solem who needed a discount on her Chick-fil-A meal so badly that she decided to be a Federal law enforcement agent, claiming to employees that she was undercover.

Solem at first tried to convince a drive-thru employee that she was a federal agent but was unsuccessful. She then went inside the restaurant and flashed a silver badge to two managers in a bid to persuade them that she was a federal law enforcement officer.

“She stated that she was undercover and that for them asking her to be in uniform would blow her cover and [possibly] get her killed,” according to the arrest warrant cited by the paper.

Solem also called the fast-food chain’s corporate offices in Atlanta to complain, giving her name as “Agent Solem” before changing her story and claiming to be an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations.

Apparently she wasn’t careful with her language and employees called police. I’m guessing she didn’t get her discount, either.

Last night in Pico Rivera, California, Town Council members asked Gregory Salcido to resign from the council because of his remarks disparaging members of the military to impressionable students. He doubled down, refusing to resign, he said that his goal is to get his students to college “It’s not just the military. I don’t want them to work at a fast food restaurant either.” He continued that “those who aren’t stellar students, find the military a better option“.

From CBS News;

Mayor Gustavo Camacho called it “bullying, arrogant and aggressive behavior.” The council can’t force Salcido from his post but Camacho introduced a motion to censure Salcido, which would bar him from city committees and appointments, and to ask him to resign from the council.

The meeting was Salcido’s first public appearance since making the comments Jan. 26.

He said he was sorry to anyone his comments may have hurt, but he did not apologize for the remarks themselves, which he said “were definitely out of context.”

So, he compared military recruiters to pimps, jobs in the military to those in fast food restaurants, and students who join the military as not stellar students, you know, even though less than 20% of American students can qualify to join the military.

Salcido is his own worst enemy, he should really stop digging. From The Burn Pit;

As a whole, the U.S. military is far better educated than the American population it defends. 82.8 percent of U.S. military officers in 2010 had at least a bachelor’s degree, compared to 29.9 percent of the general population. 93.6 percent of enlisted soldiers had at least a high school diploma, compared to 59.5 percent of America.

The meeting was so well-attended last night, there was overflow seating outside the meeting hall.

Last week we talked about Christian , a 57-year-old Chilean native who pretended to be a Lieutenant General of the Army variety. As a phony general, he directed the pilot of a rented helicopter to land at a secure facility. It turns out that he was trying to impress a married woman, according to the Army Times;

It was around sunset on Nov. 6 when the pilot of the helicopter chartered by Desgroux landed on a soccer field at the sprawling corporate campus of SAS Institute in Cary.

As security officers approached, Desgroux stepped out wearing a “full military battle dress uniform” and displaying three stars that implied a rank of lieutenant general, Homeland Security Special Agent Tony Bell testified.

“He saluted the security officers, and they actually saluted him back,” Bell said.

A suspicious security supervisor confronted Desgroux, who told him he was there to pick up a female employee to take her to Fort Bragg for a classified briefing that had been authorized by President Donald Trump.

But none of it was true: Desgroux later acknowledged to federal agents that he had never served in the U.S. military, Bell said.

The woman, a longtime acquaintance of Desgroux, expected him to arrive in a car for a visit. Instead they went on a 30-minute helicopter ride around Raleigh, Bell said.

“She had no idea that he was flying a helicopter to pick her up,” Bell said. Bell testified that Desgroux wanted to pursue a romantic relationship, but the woman is married.

She and the pilot, who has not been charged, appear to have been swept up in Desgroux’s strange behavior.

“She didn’t know what to make of it,” Bell told the judge. “She just went along with it.”

From The Washington Post;

The helicopter took off, but Desgroux wasn’t sure where they should go, so they circled Raleigh for about half an hour, Miller said. The pilot added that the woman claimed her headset wasn’t working properly, saying she could not hear him or Desgroux during the flight.

“I’m not convinced [the headset] had problems,” Miller said, describing the woman as “extremely nervous,” although he chalked up her apprehension to preflight jitters.

After about half an hour, the helicopter returned to SAS’s campus and dropped off the woman, which is when SAS security officials called local police, the AP reported. Miller and Desgroux took flight again, and the pilot declined to drop Desgroux off near a Raleigh supermarket in the dark.

The total cost for about three hours total flight time was more than $1,500, Miller said.

It was the second time Desgroux had chartered a helicopter from the company. In 2017, he also wore an Army uniform on a flight to Jacksonville, N.C., where he talked about plans for another flight to land at the Pentagon, Miller said. The pilot told Desgroux he needed written authorization from authorities.

Well, Desgroux said, he could land at “the embassy,” Miller recalled him saying, but he did not clarify which of the 177 diplomatic missions in Washington he meant.

I think the world is a safer place with Desgroux confined.

Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America doesn’t like Donald Trump. She was counting on a Hillary Clinton presidency to get rid of those evil guns that protect law abiding Americans from criminals, so she takes a swipe at Trump on Twitter by comparing the troops to the White Nationalists with Tiki torches at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville last year;

The Tweet has mysteriously disappeared, but saved through the magic of screen shotery.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the links to Twitchy and Townhall.

Army Major General Rick Stevens retired in November and returned home to Indiana with the intention to run for Congress as a Democrat. Because he was in the Army and not in Indiana in the last election cycle, he needs the permission of local Democrat chairwoman Sandi Stewart. He says that he is “politically independent in the military, describing himself as a fiscal conservative who is progressive on social and environmental issues.”

Ms. Stewart says that he isn’t Democrat enough, according to Stars & Stripes;

Stewart said that Stevens’ voting record doesn’t lean toward Democratic principles and beliefs. She said she won’t sign off on someone who she doesn’t think is a Democrat.

“The signature he’s wanting me to sign off on is me saying he’s a Democrat,” Stewart said. “I’m not convinced of that.”

But Stevens said that after his retirement he found his beliefs are more closely aligned with those of the Democratic Party.

I’ll bet Ms. Stewart thinks that Bradley Manning is a woman, though. An unshaven, hairy-legged guy in a dress would be welcomed in a ladies’ room with her. I guess this self-designation stuff doesn’t count for every thing.

Andy11M sends a link from New Orleans, Louisiana about Sircaria Coleman who was a deserter from the Army for five years until the other day when she tried to board a cruise ship for a vacation, but she popped hot for a warrant issued by the Army;

According to authorities, Coleman posted bond on Aug. 15, 2012, following an arrest somewhere in Louisiana on unspecified allegations. She never returned to her post in Fort Carson, Colorado, and the Army issued a warrant to arrest Coleman on a charge of military desertion several months later.

Coleman turned 30 four days before her arrest. She was working at a cellphone dealership when she was captured, court records said.

Orleans Parish Criminal Magistrate Court Judge Harry Cantrell ordered Coleman held without bail. She waived extradition proceedings and as of Wednesday was awaiting to be transferred out of New Orleans.

Now she’s looking at five years in a restful jail cell…much safer than a cruise ship.

From Manatee County, Florida comes the story of Goodwill workers who found a grenade launcher in their donation bins. They called the local sheriff who took it away. The LEOs locked up the “live grenade” in their HazMat locker. The grenade doesn’t look like any I’d ever seen, after spending years as a grenadier in infantry units.

As you can imagine, it was big news this morning in social media.

But if you wait awhile, the truth will eventually come out;

The device is a toy Airsoft replica of the military’s M203 grenade launcher.

It was made by ICS Airsoft in Taiwan.

The toy grenade found in the Airsoft launcher shoots multiple pellets.

Airsoft toys are designed to shoot plastic pellets at a relatively low, harmless velocity.

Many Airsoft enthusiasts form teams and play war games, during which they shoot at each other with the replica firearms.

Whew. Another lethal toy is off the streets.