ADVICE TO MIAMI MOTORISTS
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You just gotta laugh at some people's dumb luck.
Posted by: Beppie | January 29, 2007 at 01:20 PM
But not mine today!! First, yeeah!
Posted by: Beppie | January 29, 2007 at 01:20 PM
ack, Shaq was attacked
Posted by: Chaz | January 29, 2007 at 01:23 PM
you know, if regular police officers hung out down by the bars more often, they might happen to catch more criminal activity too.
Posted by: judi | January 29, 2007 at 01:24 PM
Officer O'Neal reporting for duty! I saw the interview with these morons and Shack shoulda tasered them.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 29, 2007 at 01:25 PM
Rob writes for the paper too??
Cool. :)
Posted by: Cookie | January 29, 2007 at 01:26 PM
judi, not enough donut shops near the bars.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 29, 2007 at 01:27 PM
Why am I not surprised that the Shaq drives an Escalade. Either that or a Hummer I guess.
Posted by: Darren | January 29, 2007 at 01:30 PM
Cookie, good catch! I believe there was an article posted a few months ago that was also written by the younger Barry. I'm sure there have been more.
Good job, Rob.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 29, 2007 at 01:30 PM
Well, I was about to agree with judi, but Siouxie just made an excellent point.
Posted by: Beppie | January 29, 2007 at 01:30 PM
Wow. Police officers have bodyguards. Miami is tough!
Posted by: fivver | January 29, 2007 at 01:34 PM
"Rondon said he and his friend were shocked to see the 7-foot-1 O'Neal step out of the Escalade's driver seat.
I would be too!
(That is to say, if I were to ever be involved in a hit and run anything. Which, of course, I wouldn't be. But like just imagining for a minute, if I were...then I would be able to relate.)
YAY Rob!
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 29, 2007 at 01:35 PM
Hitting a car, then seeing a 7'1" African-American man standing there might make me run for it too. I would require a clean thong, for sure.
Posted by: Meditrina | January 29, 2007 at 01:38 PM
*wonders if Mot is going to be Darren all day*
:)
Posted by: Cookie | January 29, 2007 at 01:39 PM
shazam!
Posted by: judi | January 29, 2007 at 01:41 PM
Cookie, Dagwood says he was only kidding.
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | January 29, 2007 at 01:44 PM
*snork* @ shazam!!! I so remember that.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 29, 2007 at 01:44 PM
Mot caught it from Meanie
Posted by: mm | January 29, 2007 at 01:46 PM
lol, judi!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 29, 2007 at 01:52 PM
judi, are you implying that irregular police officers hang out down by the bars?
Posted by: MOTW | January 29, 2007 at 01:56 PM
mmmmmm, handcuffs.....
Posted by: casey | January 29, 2007 at 02:03 PM
OT comment:
i am so sorry to be so late, but there ia a poem now posted on the 'python' thread. a bit lighter than my last few, i hope you like it.
true story that i am not making up: the reason i am late posting the snake poem is that i was giving blood. you know before they let you give blood they check your blood pressure, temperature, etc., and my temperature was 95.6 which is what, like three degrees below "normal"? i attribute this to the fact that the temperature outside is like seven degrees and i am freezing my a55 off. so third world or not, miami is looking better all the time.
Posted by: mudstuffin | January 29, 2007 at 02:05 PM
Did Shaquille say: "Stop, or I'll shoot!"
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 29, 2007 at 02:17 PM
mud, loved the poem! come to miyami and we'll warm ya up. we have a kissing booth set up an everythang! mrs. mud goes to the other booth where the guys set up their own. we're equal opportunity goodwill ambassadors.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 29, 2007 at 02:17 PM
?
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 29, 2007 at 02:18 PM
(that "?" was meant for my last post)
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 29, 2007 at 02:18 PM
So I'm still Daddy's Little Princess?
YAY!
Posted by: Cookie | January 29, 2007 at 02:20 PM
siouxie: didn't want to bring this up, but mrs. mud is a big part of the reason that i'm so cold (no that's not what i meant, stop that) she is, uh... er... chronologically at a certain point in her life where she prefers the thermostat in the house set at, say 60, IFYWIM. NTTAWWT, dear.
Posted by: mudstuffin | January 29, 2007 at 02:20 PM
LOL Lisa!Slam dunk!
ahhh...mud. say no more! in that case...tuff sh!t.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 29, 2007 at 02:24 PM
Lisa - I thought you were lending that to Darren.
mm - I/we deny having given any form of illness to Mot/Darren. Well...paranoia, possibly, but I wasn't alone in that.
Mud - snakes are cold-blooded creatures. Are you sure they were taking your temperature?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 29, 2007 at 02:26 PM
Was the kid arrested for "traveling" away from the scene of the crime?
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 29, 2007 at 02:28 PM
ew, meanie. ew.
Posted by: mudstuffin | January 29, 2007 at 02:36 PM
things no one will ever say:
"Who was that 7 foot tall, large-footed black man, who arrested us?"
"I don't know, but he should work on his free throws."
Posted by: insomniac | January 29, 2007 at 02:45 PM
Did anyone notice that this article was written by Rob Barry. I wonder if Dave's son is putting his math degree to use by writting a sports column?
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | January 29, 2007 at 02:52 PM
At24: Eagle-eye Cookie noticed it too. See 1:26 pm post.
I they can Sophie on the staff, it'll be a 4-Barry publication.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 29, 2007 at 02:59 PM
...and IF I could type, I might actually make sense (OK, maybe that's a stretch....)
Meant to say: "If they can get Sophie on the staff..."
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 29, 2007 at 03:00 PM
Meanie, blame it on the other you.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 29, 2007 at 03:04 PM
Best lines of the piece:
''I couldn't believe that,'' Rondon said. ``Of all the people. I mean, damn.''
Still *snorking* over the picture of this 18 year old moron seeing Shaq getting out of his Escalade. Talk about your worst nightmares!
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 29, 2007 at 03:10 PM
Global warming?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 29, 2007 at 03:11 PM
The math thing for Rob must've just been a back-up plan, in case there's some sort of nepotism clause at the Herald.
Posted by: Guin | January 29, 2007 at 03:11 PM
Why would anyone leave the driver's door open while they're away from the car? I think Shaq kinda deserved to get his door ripped off (assuming that was the "unknown damage.")
Also, Shaq's a Detective? Don't most police officers take years to make Detective?
Posted by: BillyJoeJimBob | January 29, 2007 at 03:20 PM
Geezer alert, random thought: When my mother lived in NY, her car was hit by Art Carney's.
Posted by: MOTW | January 29, 2007 at 03:21 PM
BJJB - Oh, for Pete's sake. I leave the door open when I am putting groceries in, maybe I put the cart back w/o shutting the door first. It happens. The thing was that the kid hit a car and then left the scene. Bad form!
Posted by: MOTW | January 29, 2007 at 03:24 PM
'He was going to stop, but then we saw the Escalade chasing us,'' Rondon told The Miami Herald on Sunday. ``We got scared and kept driving, you know?''
Uh huh.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 29, 2007 at 03:25 PM
What was an 18 year old doing leaving a "club" at 4 am is the real question.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 29, 2007 at 03:26 PM
mud, your ode to the charmed snake was lovely, just lovely.
Posted by: witchlesa | January 29, 2007 at 03:31 PM
FCDA says most people who leave the scene do so because they've been drinking and if they can not get caught, they usually (in many cases) turn themselves in the next morning, and there's no alcohol in their system to be tested....
Posted by: Cookie | January 29, 2007 at 03:34 PM
The really cool thing is that Shaq is a Miami Beach reserve officer. (I think it's cool anyway.)
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 29, 2007 at 03:34 PM
"You see this cop Shaq is a bad mother--
(Shut your mouth)..."
Posted by: Siouxie | January 29, 2007 at 04:02 PM
I think that's cool too, Lisa. :)
Posted by: Cookie | January 29, 2007 at 06:46 PM
Shaq needs a bodyguard?
Posted by: pete | January 29, 2007 at 10:41 PM
Cool, Rob's on the staff, too. Is he thinking about writing humor?
Cool that Shaq's a police officer. Seems like so many of the other hotshot sports players are committing crimes.
Posted by: Kristina L. | January 29, 2007 at 11:20 PM