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Great Moments in Government Idiocracy
Posted by: Emperor Misha I in Bureaucracy, Idiotarians12:50 PM
(Via Hot Air)
Just when you thought that government idiots couldn’t get more idiotic:
HICKMAN, Kentucky — Officials mistakenly released a prisoner from a Kentucky facility after receiving a phony fax that ordered him freed, and it took them nearly two weeks to realize it.
The fax contained grammatical errors, was not typed on letterhead and was sent from a local grocery store. The fax falsely claimed that the Kentucky Supreme Court “demanded” Timothy Rouse be released.
“Deer Warden,
We demand that u releeze tim rite now b/c we sez so.
XOXO,
Teh supream cort of kintocky.”
“It’s outrageous that it happened,” Fulton County Attorney Rick Major said. “I’m just glad nobody got hurt because he’s dangerous.”
As are the functional retards in charge of your correctional facilities, it would appear.
Police are still investigating who faxed the letter.
We suspect that asking the grocery store from whence the fax originated might help you in that quest but hey, you’re the professionals here. Don’t let a silly mere citizen tell you how to do your jobs.
Prison officials did not notice that the fax came from the grocery store because policies did not require checking the source of a faxed order, said the LaGrange facility’s director, Greg Taylor.
“It’s not part of a routine check, but certainly, in hindsight, that would perhaps have caused somebody to ask a question,” he said.
You think? Amazing. What was your first clue because, to be honest, we hadn’t even thought of that until you mentioned it.
Misspellings on orders are common, he said.
We don’t doubt that for a second. An applicant showing disturbing levels of actual literacy would be grossly overqualified for government work. As a matter of fact, the poor spelling and grammar was most likely what convinced the officials that the “court order” was legitimate.
Still, they ought to have raised an eyebrow when they realized that the document hadn’t been scribbled in crayon on a place mat from Denny’s as is usually the case.
Thank G-d we have professionals taking care of us.
***UPDATE:*** Incompetent government officials don’t release dangerous prisoners, FAX MACHINES release dangerous prisoners!
Ban fax machines! NOW!
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Unbelievable.
April 22nd, 2007 at 12:54 PMUsing
Now might be a good time for them to get a copy of Mitnick’s Art of Deception and read it. It’s alway amusing to watch people build better locks, then forget to close the door.
…. not that the gummint would ever do something like that of course…
April 22nd, 2007 at 12:56 PMUsing
But don’t worry. They will do a great job of running our “health care system.”
April 22nd, 2007 at 1:04 PMUsing
Do you think we could get then to wire some money to the Caymans for us. You know beer and barbeque money.
April 22nd, 2007 at 1:10 PMUsing
Buwahahahaha!
April 22nd, 2007 at 1:40 PMI somehow knew you would get around to this one.
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Last week I faxed a note to the state lottery board telling them that TJ had won the jackpot and opted for the immediate lump sum payment…atill waiting for the check.
April 22nd, 2007 at 1:49 PMUsing
Sounds like the Prison Officials are the ones that need to be behind bars.
April 22nd, 2007 at 1:50 PMUsing
Hey, now, at least us hillbillies won’t be calling for that kind of thing (yeah, I’m in Ky, and that story really doesn’t surprise me as much as it should), but at least we do realize that idiocy like that is not caused by the equipment.
It’s more likely because Billy-Bob the jailer was spending most of his time trying to make time with some girl in the office, and only glanced at the fax long enough to figure out what it said.
April 22nd, 2007 at 2:00 PMUsing
I know.
I was channeling liberals there. I hate it when that happens. Takes me HOURS of intensive reading to get my IQ back up to normal.
And don’t nobody be slamming hillbillies. If given the choice between one of you and some addle-brained, airheaded Noo Yawk librul, I know damn good and well WHO I’d want watching my back.
Speaking of which: I still can’t help but laugh when some pig ignorant natterati progressive thinks that “redneck” is an insult.
April 22nd, 2007 at 2:05 PMUsing
Oops, I forgot the smilies in that post. I knew it wasn’t really a dig at Kentuckians.
Besides, we have tales of pistol-packing former Miss America grannies to counter stories like that one.
Mheh.
April 22nd, 2007 at 2:35 PMUsing
I love it. You just can’t make this stuff up. I’m sure if it were King County or Seattlestan, they’re give him some taxpayer money to “help send him on his way.”
April 22nd, 2007 at 2:45 PMUsing
Death to Idiots!!! LULULULULU!!!
Thanks for the avatar help, DJ!
April 22nd, 2007 at 4:16 PMUsing
Why is it Kentucky never gets in the news for anything good? -_-
April 22nd, 2007 at 4:56 PMUsing
demonicgerbil Sez:
Because in Kentucky, when a man and wife get divorced, they’re still brother and sister…
Same as Arkansas…
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:04 PMUsing
It’s endemic. I present to you the case of my former housemate and Univ. of Kentucky football player, Marcus McClinton. I heard he’d been arrested for making bombs out of household chemicals, so I checked the March 25, 2007 newspaper article in the Lexington Herald Leader.
Imagine my shock and horror! I had been living with the next Unabomber!
Then I dug up another article from March 29
(Emphasis mine)
Teh shock! The horror! Then I pulled up an article from the UK paper.
Holy homemade bombs, Batman! Marcus got arrested and smeared in the papers for putting dry ice in a plastic soda bottle. The cops even called in the bomb squad! Thank the stars he wasn’t dropping Mentos into Diet Coke or they would’ve evacuated half the damn city. The boy should sue for false arrest and defamation of character. The city should fire our Barney Fife bombsquad and the papers should fire the journalijism-majoring retard that filed these assinine reports.
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:05 PMUsing
Yep, same thing with “cracker”. If they knew what those words really meant they would see them as actual compliments.
April 22nd, 2007 at 6:46 PMUsing
Sir George
Your story is no different than all of the “bomb scares” because of “live” hand grenades. You know, the ones with the blue handles and hollow bottoms. I don’t evenraise an eyebrow anymore when the local “media” say a freeway or building was closed because the bomb squad had to “dispose” of a grenade.
Oh well, at least the bomb squad gets some practice.
April 22nd, 2007 at 6:51 PMUsing
OT. This is sad.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267736,00.html
She’s a democrat. Waiting for the DUmmies and Kossacks to froth and foam at the mouth screeching that she deserved it…
waiting…waiting…waiting….*crickets*
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And here’s one for the Darwin award: (albeit a kidlet, so I shouldn’t be this way, I guess)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267741,00.html
I’m especially ticked at the parents and teachers who don’t teach these kids respect for animals, and I’m not even a tree-hugger!
April 22nd, 2007 at 6:57 PMUsing
Anyone can make a bomb out of household chemicals. Get a one liter soda bottle, drop two balls of aluminum foil in the bottom, put hydrocloric acid toilet bowl cleaner in the bottom, squeeze it down, screw the cap back on, and run. No smoke, no flames, just a really loud noise. We used to make them when I was a kid working at the supermarket. Just another memory, like bowling with frozen turkeys.
I’m so glad the lamestream midiots find that dangerous. When does the revolution start?
April 22nd, 2007 at 7:38 PMUsing
If the criminal is smarter than the jailer,it should be considered an early parole.
April 22nd, 2007 at 8:08 PMUsing
Sir George - Well, it’s a college town, that’s to be expected. I mean, c’mon, they wear shoes and everything there. :razz_wp:
April 22nd, 2007 at 8:30 PMUsing
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April 23rd, 2007 at 4:07 AMUsing
Yet I know who I’d rather have living next to me…..
Oh and a development on my Southernification: I work in a hotel, one in which a lot of kids sports teams from up North stay in weekends, as we are the closest decent place to stay to the ice rink/baseball field/sports arena place their leagues use.
Last weekend a mix of Canucks, folks from Maine and New Yorkers had most of our rooms. After the first two hours of my shift were spent trying to stop their kids tearing the place up, dealing with the messes they left and steering drunk parents back to their rooms I got a moment of peace.
First words out of my mouth were “damn yankees!”.
Looks like I went and got myself all comfortable like, don’t it?
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:55 AMUsing
Hey, NCLivingBrit, that should be damnyankee, but welcome to southern life :thumbup_tb: a real southeron isn’t born, it just a choice.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:28 AMUsing
Sigh. The only surprising thing I find about this is that it didn’t happen in Arizona, for once. Lord knows, we’ve done just about everything else. The pittance that the state pays Corrections staff ensures that most people who have half a brain go elsewhere, our standards are much lower than the military (after all, they pay better).
April 23rd, 2007 at 1:18 PMLuckily, we have a standard form that the courts use, so a handmade forgery is not as likely to work here.
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Not bad, LC NCLivingBrit!
Now, say “Y’all”
Now, try “All y’all”
Explain the difference, and you get the gold star . . .
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:06 PMUsing
Y’all is a general way of defining the subject, neither singular nor plural but both:
eg: Y’all better step on out ‘fore I smash yer Libtard teeth in. (directed to a single Kostard)
I think I better stay here, y’all are my kind of people (directed to the LC’s and assorted Rott-ers)
Whereas ‘all y’all’ is specifically used to designate a group and never works in the singular.
But I could be wrong
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:22 PMUsing
PERFECT, SIR!
:clap_tb: :clap_tb: :clap_tb:
Y’all would be shocked how many damnyankees never understand the difference.
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:33 PMUsing
Well, when I thought about it, I pretty much aspire to the classical Southern dream: a good woman, good dog(s), enough money to get by, land of my own and no interfering effete dumb asses to fuck it all up for me with their bullshit.
Seems to me that there’s been wars fought for that dream, both foreign and domestic.
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:54 PMUsing
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