http://www.kypost.com/news/local/story/N-Ky-Man-Hails-Police-Cruiser/rAmJyskTVUuB3PGND_7v2Q.cspxN.Ky. Man Hails Police CruiserA Newport man faces charges after mistaking a Cincinnati Police cruiser for a taxi.
An Officer arrested Jacob Dooley early Sunday morning on Ludlow Avenue in Clifton.
The Officer says Dooley caused an annoyance and alarm by trying to get into the police car.
Dooley's charged with causing an annoyance or alarm, disorderly conduct and public intoxication.
The Officer says prior to trying to get into the police car, Dooley had just been thrown out of a cab.
OK, first reaction is this is actually mildly funny, some drunk jerk thinking a cop car is a cab, but under the surface it says a lot about the mentality of a police department that actually arrests someone for that. Honestly, if you were a cop, wouldn't you kind of laugh the whole thing off? Maybe?
It's another incident of excessive reaction in the same city where last week the lawyer was jailed half a year for using an Anglo-Saxon monosyllable as a gerund.
The same city where in the '70's a good-natured sleazebag like Larry Flynt was tried
under organized crime statutes, facing life imprisonment if convicted, for owning a girly magazine. (Albeit a gross one.)
The same city where in 1990 an art museum's curator was prosecuted---first case of its kind in American history---for obscenity, for displaying Robert Mapplethorpe photographs within a gallery of the museum. My dad was one of the museum's prominent supporters and is still literally on certain people's hit lists over it.
Same city where a judge offered a woman the choice of jail time or marrying the boyfriend who was in court for assaulting her. Same place where Federal investigators were sent in after riots in 2001 to look into "thousands" of complaints of civil rights violations among law enforcement and courts.
Fun city, huh? Believe me I could fill pages with stories of the reactionary mindset of the powers that be among the police force and elected officials of Cincinnati, Ohio, but I doubt you guys would believe half of them, they're so nuts they read like fiction. Point is, it's a funny story but it says a lot more under the surface than it seems.