{"id":18069,"date":"2010-03-18T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18069"},"modified":"2010-03-18T15:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:30:43","slug":"turning-nothing-into-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18069","title":{"rendered":"Turning Nothing Into Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

My senior year in high school I worked at Circuit City as a computer tech and salesman. At the particular store I worked at, we had a public address (PA) system in the store that was supposed to be used to make announcements about things sales and when the store was closing. However, most of the time it was used by employees to play pranks on each other (ex: we were able to patch a personal phone call over the PA so the whole store could here a particular employee breaking up with his girlfriend). One time, a customer was able to get on the PA system and scream PENIS after which he immediately ran out of the store. Following that particular incident, the district manager ordered that all the PA systems in all the stores in the Phoenix area be disabled. That was pretty much the end of it (and unfortunately the end of a lot of fun at Circuit City).<\/p>\n

Something similar happened at a Walmart in New Jersey when someone (either a customer or employee) got on the store’s PA system and announced that all black people needed to leave the store<\/a>. Stupid and childish? Yes. Racist? Absolutely. Should the store management reevaluate how their PA system is used? Definitely. Does this incident warrant a wide ranging criminal investigation by the local police department and county prosecutor? Hell no.<\/p>\n

From the article:<\/p>\n

Store management contacted the Washington Township Police Department, which opened an investigation in conjunction with the county prosecutor’s office, Deputy Police Chief John Dalesandro said.<\/p>\n

“The incident is being investigated by both law enforcement agencies as a suspected bias intimidation crime,” local authorities said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What in the name of Chesty Puller is a “bias intimidation crime”? To me it sounds like something the local police chief and prosecutor make up for a chance at some national publicity (which they are obviously getting). You’re going to tell the people of your county that there isn’t more pressing matters than some jackass getting on a PA system at Walmart and saying something retarded?<\/p>\n

I’m waiting quite eagerly for Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the SPLC to come into this town and start extorting this town and Walmart for their “racism”. Does anybody want to take bets on when they are going show up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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