PARENTAL UNIT OF THE WEEK SO FAR
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"Colorado Springs police Tased and arrested a man Wednesday afternoon after passing out drunk in a children’s play area..."
They ought to arrest reporters who let their participles dangle.
Posted by: Howard from Broward | January 28, 2010 at 04:23 PM
Why were the police drunk in a children's play area?
Dang, you beat me to it Howard.
Posted by: Braniff | January 28, 2010 at 04:27 PM
"Joshua Alger, 28, had passed out drunk at a McDonald’s play area"
Geez, my kids burned out on McDonald's so long ago I didn't even know they served booze. Make my McTini extra dry there, Ronald!
Posted by: padraig | January 28, 2010 at 04:28 PM
I'm confuzzled.. Who was drunken?? The cops, the man or the children??
Posted by: Siouxie | January 28, 2010 at 04:31 PM
besides all that, that story was published in the most irritating font ever.
Posted by: mudstuffin | January 28, 2010 at 04:35 PM
"Along with the original warrant, he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer."
I would have thought that the second item he was arrested for was fairly clear-cut, i.e. EITHER HE DID OR HE DIDN'T. Suspicion?
Posted by: ed in texas | January 28, 2010 at 04:49 PM
That is SO stupid! Everyone knows it would take FOREVER for a kid to bite off a face with those teensie baby teeth! Sheesh!
Posted by: Punkin | January 28, 2010 at 04:54 PM
The kids were obviously from Alien.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | January 28, 2010 at 05:29 PM
They ate them with some fava beans and a nice chianti . . . f-f-f-f-f-f-f!
Posted by: bonmot | January 28, 2010 at 05:32 PM
padraig: McD's doesn't serve booze, but Burger King will.
Posted by: Ralph | January 28, 2010 at 05:33 PM
That King can be so uber-creepy when he's drunk, too.
Posted by: Loudmouth | January 28, 2010 at 05:48 PM
Well, is Burger Doodle gonna sell beer, or are they gonna pretend to and merely offer Budweiser and Miller ...
And one commenter said it wuz OK if done "tastefully" ... I'd nominate that concept (tied to those brands) for Oxymoronicalness of the Day ...
Posted by: O the U(manity) | January 28, 2010 at 06:16 PM
Love the ad: "Here's to eating more veggies than you did yesterday..."
Posted by: LM | January 28, 2010 at 06:37 PM
"Along with the original warrant, he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer."
So the original warrant was arrested too?
Signed,
Confused
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 28, 2010 at 07:08 PM
Cheese it - the cops!
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 28, 2010 at 07:14 PM
OT
Anyone else having problems with some of the threads??
/OT
Posted by: Siouxie | January 28, 2010 at 07:20 PM
My neighbor once told me that his kids didn't know he was drunk until they saw him sober. The name isn't familiar but this sounds like the same guy.
Posted by: Steve | January 28, 2010 at 07:27 PM
Siouxie - si.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 28, 2010 at 07:32 PM
Siouxie, you mean this kind of problem?
"The requested URL /dave_barrys_blog/2010/01/not-that-there-is-anything-whatsoever-wrong-with-it.html was not found on this server."
Maybe there was something wrong with it...
Posted by: Richard the Weasel-Hearted | January 28, 2010 at 08:19 PM
"Anyone else having problems with some of the threads??"
Yes.
Posted by: mung | January 28, 2010 at 09:09 PM
I'm also having problems with the threads. I can't read the comments on the chicken thread. I blame Meanie and wiredog.
Posted by: nursecindy | January 28, 2010 at 11:30 PM
The police also allowed the Hamburglar to escape.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | January 28, 2010 at 11:44 PM
I also blame Weanie & Miredog for messin' up the blog.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 28, 2010 at 11:47 PM
And we wonder why print journalism is failing. Newspaper readers had to pay to read the opening sentence of that story.
Posted by: RichZ | January 29, 2010 at 02:22 AM
De blog, it be broked.
Posted by: NotSherly | January 29, 2010 at 07:26 AM