The DooDoo Bandit Strikes Again

Yes, it’s true. We got doodoo! Doodoo for you too?

At 12:30 today they found e.coli in Greenville’s water, so we’re all on doodoo alert apparently for the next 48 hours. No rinsing dishes without boiling water, no brushing teeth without boiled water, no cooking without boiling water… wait a minute… I’m back in Libya. lol.

 

Greenville got a little taste today of what its like not to have clean water and my God the town has fallen apart. Yes, there is e.coli and apparently trace amounts of feces in the water ( and by “trace amounts” I mean few particles per billion). While I’m not happy about the prospect, I’m not freaking out either. We had almost full-scale riots in Wal-Mart, Sam’s club, Food Lion, etc.

 

April and I did get 5 gallons of water to last us through the “crisis” but that’s primarily because I really want my coffee and I’m not much inclined to wait for boiling water when I want it.

The point of all of this is to bring one thing to light: Within 2 hours of the notice that all restaurants, and anyone who has a sanitation grade had to close business, people were leaving work, flocking to stores to buy out all the water, sharing worst-case scenarios that generally put people in a panic, and just acting like idiots.

 

It wasn’t until I started writing this that I remembered that I lived in a country for two years where no one is advised to drink the water because of WAY worse things than we have here in ours today. Hey people, relax a little and consider this a reminder of how good you have it the next time you start complaining about how rough life in the US is. One hour with a little dirty water and you’re crying like babies and burning up the news station web sites with ridiculous comments… it’s really sad.

 

For the official story, and to see some of the ridiculous comments people have made, visit the local news web sites.

WITN TV: http://www.witntv.com/home/headlines/21453854.html

WNCT TV: http://www.wnct.com/midatlantic/nct/news/local_news.apx.-content-articles-NCT-2008-06-25-0015.html

 

Here’s a few excerpts I like most:

You would have thought this was an outbreak of Smallpox to read this guy’s post:

Posted by: Zachary Hardin Location: West Side of Greenville on Jun 25, 2008 at 02:25 PM
I agree...where is Dr. Joh Morrow who is supposed to be in charge of public health? This is AMERICA not some second or third world counrty...We have had no major rain or floods in recent days. How is it possible that an contamination on this level could occour? Think about all the people at the HOSPITAL that can't wash thier hands properly to operate on people or the hundreds of food establishments that cant serve water or ICED TEA!! AHHHHH!...what a nightmare!!....As if the water in Greenville didnt already have enough lead in it, now I have to worried about crap contaminating my water?...Greeeaaat...Greenville...Whats next? An out break of the "Bubonic plague"?

Here’s one who needs to check her facts first: Do you REALLY think PCMH would buy all the water in the grocery store?

Posted by: LMP on Jun 25, 2008 at 05:32 PM
I went to Sam's club today to get water of course and when I got there, none was left. The lady working said PCMH has called all the grocery stores and bought all the water. Sorry for the sick people but they are gonna have even more problems on there hands because they left not water for the rest of us~!!!!

Here’s a gem too:

Posted by: Alecia Location: Greenville on Jun 25, 2008 at 05:57 PM
I had to go and pick up my children from daycare early today because of the water siuation. Why is this affected daycare centers?? I mean we are paying for disgusting water, high gas prices, poor air and now I have to miss work because the daycares are closed. WITN do you know why daycare centers are closed because of this?? I can understand restaurants. Thanks WITN

Maybe because they have to WASH the crap your kids are putting in their mouths? And they have to give them stuff to drink? And because the Sheriff’s department made them close?

 

 

My inspiration for DooDoo Bandit… This is the comment that made me write this post! I love this guy!

Posted by: Big Dog Location: Gvegas on Jun 25, 2008 at 04:37 PM
We need some doo-doo bandits to clean the water!

 

 

This one gets the dipshit award:

Posted by: G Vegas? Really? Location: Greenville on Jun 25, 2008 at 07:06 PM
For those people who experienced the symptoms before this story broke, is there any type of action we can take? Can we file a law suit? Class action? If so, what are the chances of actually winning or settling without having it stalled up in court for 7 years? Now that Dr. John Morrow has said that we should not even shower with this water, are businesses going to close down and let their employees off tomorrow? Specifically is the City of Greenville going to allow non-essential personnel to stay home? What about the Pitt County Gov't and NC State Gov't places of business here in Greenville? I mean this is a City wide emergencey no doubt. Not only that, it stems from a City institution. Stands to reason that we would not have to shower in this mess to have to go to work. Imagine all of us walking around in the same building with fecal matter all over our bodies.

 

 

Ooh.. a brain surgeon.. good damn thing she’s still a student. There’s time to save her intelligence.

Posted by: PCC Nursing Student Location: G-ville on Jun 25, 2008 at 07:14 PM
This report is WRONG....you boil the water for only ONE min, your still going to get sick! You MUST boil the water for at least 10 min. to kill the bacteria. Any Microbiologist will tell you that!

Sweetheart, if you boil water for one minute, it’s exceeding 212 degrees Fahrenheit, at which point “most” everything dies. Boiling for ten minutes will not raise the temperature over 212 degrees. The only way to boil it over that temperature is to use a pressure cooker or an autoclave… go read your textbooks, kid. Alternatively, you MAY have to boil it longer if you live on top of Mount Everest because the altitude makes the boiling point lower, allowing some resistant strains to survive. Considering we are about 10 feet above sea level, I think we’re excluded from this requirement.

Supreme Court Says Child Rape is OK! We’ll make the rest of you pay!

Wow.. our country really is going to hell in a handbasket. I’ll include the article here from CNN, but here’s the general viewpoint of the Supreme Court of the United States, or at least of Judge Anthony Kennedy:

 

Raping a 5 year old girls is bad, but death is too severe. Instead, we’ll put them in prison where the rest of the taxpayers have to pay for their crimes by continuing to fund them through taxes for the rest of their long, comfortable life.

There are currently only two people in the entire United States sick and twisted enough to currently be on death row for that particular strain of perverted criminality, both from Louisiana. Not only did this ruling free them from their death row sentence, but it also invalidates the laws in every other state that serve the death penalty for that crime.

 

Hey Judge. You’re a sick bastard and a sorry human being. You have three kids?! What exactly would you feel needs to happen to the twisted animal who decided to rape your daughter, Kristin. I hope to God you rot in hell for what you’ve just sentenced every parent and family of every raped child to deal with and for every child that has to wonder someday if the freak that raped them as a kid will cross them again on the street one day. You deserve to die in the most painful way possible you sick son of a bitch! For the love of God, Treason is still a sentencing offence, so I can sell trade secrets to Iran all day long and that’s worse than brutally raping an innocent child? Holy shit you’re sick! (PS:Reagan put him in power… another tick against the forgetful old guy)

 

Now.. I feel better. Here’ the article:

 

 

High Court Spares Lives Of Child Rapists

 

CBS/ AP) The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for child rape, despite the "years of long anguish" for victims, in a ruling that restricts the death penalty to murder and crimes against the state.

The court's 5-4 decision struck down a Louisiana law that allows capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12. It spares the only people in the U.S. under sentence of death for that crime - two Louisiana men convicted of raping girls 5 and 8.

The ruling also invalidates laws on the books in five other states that allowed executions for child rape.

However devastating the crime to children, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion, "the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child." His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.

CBS News chief legal analyst Andrew Cohen says the ruling "makes it virtually impossible now for any non-capital crime to have as its punishment the death penalty. I don't think the Justices could have been much clearer."

There has not been an execution in the United States for a crime that did not also involve the death of the victim in 44 years, a factor that weighed in Kennedy's decision.

Rape and other crimes "may be as devastating in their harm, as here, but 'in terms of moral depravity and of the injury to the person and to the public,' they cannot be compared to murder in their 'severity and irrevocability,"' Kennedy said, quoting from earlier decisions.

The victim in the case decided Wednesday was an 8-year-old girl raped by her stepfather at their home in Harvey, La., outside New Orleans.

Angry Louisianans who backed the law said the court was out of touch.

"The opinion reads more like an out-of-control legislative debate than a constitutional analysis," said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican. "One thing is clear: The five members of the court who issued the opinion do not share the same 'standards of decency' as the people of Louisiana."

With the court already on record this term reaffirming the constitutionality of capital punishment in a case dealing with lethal injection, Kennedy dwelt at length on the need to limit the death penalty to the most heinous killings.

Cohen says Wednesday's ruling "is completely in sync with the Court's recent trend, which is to generally narrow the circumstances in which the death penalty is available as a sentencing option."

The decision allows death sentences to continue to be imposed for crimes such as treason, espionage and terrorism, which Kennedy labeled as crimes against the state.

The Supreme Court banned executions for rape in 1977 in a case in which the victim was an adult woman.

Forty-four states prohibit the death penalty for any kind of rape, and five states besides Louisiana have allowed it for child rapists. Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas allow executions in such cases if the defendant had previously been convicted of raping a child. Georgia's statute is broader, Kennedy said.

The court struggled over how to apply standards laid out in decisions barring executions for the mentally retarded and people younger than 18 when they committed murder. In those cases, the court cited trends in the states away from capital punishment.

In this case, proponents of the Louisiana law said the trend was toward the death penalty, a point mentioned by Justice Samuel Alito in his dissent.

"The harm that is caused to the victims and to society at large by the worst child rapists is grave," Alito wrote. "It is the judgment of the Louisiana lawmakers and those in an increasing number of other states that these harms justify the death penalty."

But Kennedy said the absence of any recent executions for rape and the small number of states that allow it demonstrate "there is a national consensus against capital punishment for the crime of child rape."

Kennedy acknowledged that the decision had to come to terms with "the years of long anguish that must be endured by the victim of child rape."

Still, he concluded that in cases of crimes against individuals, "the death penalty should not be expanded to instances where the victim's life was not taken."

The author of the Louisiana law, former Republican state Rep. Pete Schneider, said even opponents of the death penalty told him they would kill anyone who raped their children. "When are you going to have the courage to stand up for what's right for all of the people - but especially the children under 12 that have been brutally raped by monsters?" Schneider demanded, directing his comments to the justices in Wednesday's majority.

The last executions for crimes other than murder took place in 1964, according to a database maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center.

Ronald Wolfe, 34, died in Missouri's gas chamber on May 8, 1964, for rape. James Coburn was electrocuted in Alabama on Sept. 4 of that year for robbery.

The case before the court involved Patrick Kennedy, 43, who was sentenced to death for the rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter in Louisiana.

Kennedy was convicted in 2003. The girl initially told police she was sorting Girl Scout cookies in the garage when two boys assaulted her.

Police arrested Kennedy a couple of weeks after the March 1998 rape, but more than 20 months passed before the girl identified him as her attacker.

His defense attorney at the time argued that blood testing was inconclusive and that the victim was pressed to change her story.

The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the sentence, saying that "short of first-degree murder, we can think of no other non-homicide crime more deserving" of the death penalty. State Chief Justice Pascal Calogero noted in dissent that the U.S. high court already had made clear that capital punishment could not be imposed without the death of the victim, except possibly for espionage or treason.

The girl's mother was reached by The Associated Press following the court's decision Wednesday. "We don't talk about that," she said and hung up.

A second Louisiana defendant, Richard Davis, was given the death penalty in December for repeatedly raping a 5-year-old girl in Caddo Parish.

Local prosecutor Lea Hall told jurors: "Execute this man. Justice has a sword and this sword needs to swing today." Both men will get new sentences.

The case is Kennedy v. Louisiana, 07-343.

 

By the way, if you want to share your own opinion about the this, you can reach the supreme court at:

 

Supreme Court
To send a comment or obtain information on the U.S. Supreme Court, go to www.supremecourtus.gov or contact the Supreme Court's Public Information Office at (202) 479-3211.

 

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Happy Birthday, Tommy!

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