The LEO thread

[Mr.B]

"I remember Homey the Clown ("Homey don't play that") and I've actually looked for old CD's of "In Living Color" without success."

You're looking in the wrong place; try looking for VHS tapes or DVD's....

[Mr.B]

"...... it would not be wise for Mr. B to greet a young black man by saying "wassup, dog?" This should be easy to understand."

Like Jackie Chan when he said....."wassup m'nigga?"

[rstrong]

I'm no expert in law, and this probably didn't apply here, but there's always the possibility the dude bought the cigarettes out of state real cheap and was reselling them. We had some guy get busted back in NJ doing this. Delaware sells cigarettes real cheap, so everyone would make trips over there and stock up.

Often it's the tobacco companies themselves that are behind it.

The biggest fraud case in Canadian history was by the North-Carolina-based R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, whose brands include Camel, Kool, Winston, Salem, Doral, Eclipse, Pall Mall and more. They set up a smuggling operation, sending cigarettes into Canada to sell on the black market, evading $1.2 Billion in taxes.

Japan Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, and Rothmans were also caught smuggling.

25 other countries - mostly in the EU - have gone after R. J. Reynolds for doing the same thing. They were working with Colombian and Russian crime syndicates to do the smuggling.

But don't worry; crime still pays if you're an executive. Their fine was for far less than the taxes they evaded. And while R.J. Reynolds vice-president of sales Stan Smith pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding the Canadian government of $1,200,000,000, he avoided jail.

As opposed to Eric Garner, who was executed.

[neoplacebo]

Yeah, none of those executives were killed on the street for selling untaxed cigarettes. Maybe some should have been.

[O Really]

[ Probably wasn't choked to death though..

Well, unless they breathed the air in Camden or Union Counties.

The first time my wife came to NJ she asked me why it smelled so bad. Literally right when you cross the bridge into Salem county it smells like sulphur farts because of the marsh. Seems like the marsh down around our coast doesn't smell bad like up north.

Not as much DuPont dump.

[neoplacebo]

"I remember Homey the Clown ("Homey don't play that") and I've actually looked for old CD's of "In Living Color" without success."

You're looking in the wrong place; try looking for VHS tapes or DVD's....

Well, that's what I meant; DVD's. I saw none at the place that used to be in the mall here and also in Asheville. I used to watch that show and laugh my ass off. The guy on Seinfeld (Michael Richards?) used to be on Living Color and was fabulous. The whole show was great. The Wayans brothers evidently became involved in greed science and the whole thing went down.

[neoplacebo]

"...... it would not be wise for Mr. B to greet a young black man by saying "wassup, dog?" This should be easy to understand."

Like Jackie Chan when he said....."wassup m'nigga?"

When I come upon a group of young black men and it's after 6pm I generally say "Evenin', bitches."

[O Really]

"I remember Homey the Clown ("Homey don't play that") and I've actually looked for old CD's of "In Living Color" without success."

You're looking in the wrong place; try looking for VHS tapes or DVD's....

Well, that's what I meant; DVD's. I saw none at the place that used to be in the mall here and also in Asheville. I used to watch that show and laugh my ass off. The guy on Seinfeld (Michael Richards?) used to be on Living Color and was fabulous. The whole show was great. The Wayans brothers evidently became involved in greed science and the whole thing went down.

Buy here... http://www.amazon.com/In-Living-Color-S ... B00152M7ZI

That was a great show. And got Jennifer Lopez and Carrie Ann Inaba started dancing as Fly Girls! Lots of others, including Jim Carrey got their start there.

[Mr.B]

"When I come upon a group of young black men and it's after 6pm I generally say "Evenin', bitches."

Is that why your body is shaped like it is? Someone turn you inside out?

[neoplacebo]

"I remember Homey the Clown ("Homey don't play that") and I've actually looked for old CD's of "In Living Color" without success."

You're looking in the wrong place; try looking for VHS tapes or DVD's....

Well, that's what I meant; DVD's. I saw none at the place that used to be in the mall here and also in Asheville. I used to watch that show and laugh my ass off. The guy on Seinfeld (Michael Richards?) used to be on Living Color and was fabulous. The whole show was great. The Wayans brothers evidently became involved in greed science and the whole thing went down.

Buy here... http://www.amazon.com/In-Living-Color-S ... B00152M7ZI

That was a great show. And got Jennifer Lopez and Carrie Ann Inaba started dancing as Fly Girls! Lots of others, including Jim Carrey got their start there.

Ok, thanks. I also remember the pharmacy guy who was really paranoid; he'd say "Is this a robbery?" and freak out. I forget who that guy was.....And Michael Richards would play war with soldiers in the dirt and just hit the ground when his mom would call for him out the window. Lots of good stuff.

[neoplacebo]

"When I come upon a group of young black men and it's after 6pm I generally say "Evenin', bitches."

Is that why your body is shaped like it is? Someone turn you inside out?

Nah, that's intentionally misleading. That fowl is quite an accomplished Ninja and nothing to trifle with. I was just being sarcastic about your apparent lack of knowledge about urban slang and contemporary American life. Evenin', bitches. On further thought, your response to my previous post seems to indicate that you're not as ignorant of social etiquette as it relates to race relations as you let on to be since you figured my greeting to the group of black guys would, indeed, be inappropriate. You'd probably also realize / admit that greeting them with "what's up, my nigger" or "sup, homie?" would also light a fuse.

[neoplacebo]

Mr. B said he was an Ensign in the Navy. Typically, one holds that rank for two years or less. I hope he wasn't a career sailor and left with the rank of Ensign. I was once reprimanded for not saluting the CNO (Admiral Holloway, the shortest Admiral ever) when he was on board. I was taking out some trash and was inside the confines of the ship and not covered (wearing a hat). The XO was with the CNO as they passed me going the other way. As any sailor knows (except for my XO) you don't salute inside and never while uncovered. The XO was Killam, a Naval dumbass and likely one of Ragin Rebel's relatives.

[Mr.B]

"As any sailor knows (except for my XO) you don't salute inside and never while uncovered."

Too funny...I recall an incident when I was in specialty training at GLakes. A career chief with 11 gold hashes on his sleeve (this was before they were limited to a given number) passed a j.g. and greeted him with a "good morning sir", without a salute!

The j.g. calls out... "Hey sailor!.. come to attention"! The chief slowly turned around and said "you talking to me?" The j.g. says "yes, I was talking to you; did you not see this gold bar that indicates I'm an officer and you're to salute me"? The chief says "yeah, I saw 'em; I called you SIR, didn't I ?" Then grabbing him by the nape of his shirt, he lifted the youngster up off the ground, and said "If you ever call me 'sailor' again, I'll have your ass as a campaign ribbon....SIR"!

All I can say is , you should'a seen the look on that j.g.'s face......

[Mr.B]

"Mr.B is just pretending that he was merely adopting black vernacular - can you imagine him talking black IRL? <shudder> - he knows and we all know that he meant it as a racist epithet. He's just too wussy to admit it."

I was quoting a line in a movie.

There's that "we" again.......you're speaking for everyone again?

[O Really]

US news reported as if it were in a foreign country...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2 ... picks=true

[indago]

Journalist Richard Oppel wrote for The New York Times 3 December 2014:
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The Cleveland police officer who fatally shot a 12-year-old boy last month left the police force in nearby Independence, Ohio, after an internal assessment two years ago found that he had suffered a “dangerous loss of composure” during firearms training. ...Officer Loehmann “could not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections, and his handgun performance was dismal.”
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[Boatrocker]

. . . As any sailor knows (except for my XO) you don't salute inside and never while uncovered.

In '78, while in charge of a working party on the pier (and thus responsible for saluting for the entire party) I had my right arm momentarily occupied and used my left hand to salute an LT(jg) who was passing with a Senior Chief. JG didn't like that and met me on the quarterdeck of the tender when we came back aboard. It was allowable by REGs, and the MAA on the tender confirmed it. But he complained to our Chief of The Boat that it was an "obscure detail" of naval regs and seemd unprofessional to render left-handed salutes in public. COB replied that since I was one of the most thoroughly unprofessional petty officers aboard, he was not surprised. XO laughed (after he had the yeoman look it up) but told me not to do it again.
Enlisted sailors take their shots where they can.

[Mr.B]

That one's funny too!

Don't you love when these gung-ho young officers get their hineys painted onto their faces?!?

'78...? Dang, you're still a young'un!

[Boatrocker]

I was a 22 yr old PO then.

[neoplacebo]

"As any sailor knows (except for my XO) you don't salute inside and never while uncovered."

Too funny...I recall an incident when I was in specialty training at GLakes. A career chief with 11 gold hashes on his sleeve (this was before they were limited to a given number) passed a j.g. and greeted him with a "good morning sir", without a salute!

11 hash stripes? Damn, that's 44 years. Chief probably had 4 or 5 of them before junior was even born.