Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Another story from the pigs....er..Law Enforcement Officers.This was with another officer...not officer urine from the last story...
It was about 5:30pm and we were parked along the side of a busy congested roadway. As the cars drove by at about 20 MPH we were entering every plate we had enough time to read into the computer to look for suspended licenses, warrants, and the like. This was because traffic was so heavy we couldn't easily get around on a street patrol, and it was too slow to be looking for speeders...so here we were.
I should mention that the cars were going by fast enough we barely had time to look at the plates, let alone the driver of the car.
Beep beep bepp (more annoying noises) and we have a winner...suspended license a few cars up...of we go slowly through the traffic we pull the mid 1980s buick to the side of the road, and approach the vehicle.
The driver happens by the chances of the universe to have his family's roots somewhere in Africa, yay for him, and no more is thought about it.
So the officer goes through his normal procedure, out of the car, blah, blah, blah. The man is very cooperative and has a clean record besides the failed emissions test that got his license suspended (environmentalists...a whole nother QOTW there..)
So, with all this in mind the decision is reached that there is no need to take him into lock up and all that. The paperwork can be done on the street, and he can sign a signature bond, and be on his way. He says he can call his sister for a ride home since we do have to tow his car. Everyones at least moderatley happy...well...content.
As he sits in his handcuffs in the back of the squad car (a requirement) we proceed to do an inventory search of his car. This is to list all items in the car, so when he gets it back from impound he can't say anything was stolen. So, we open the trunk and find a old battered axe handle...with no sign of it being intended for use as an axe. This is what we call a "Class B Weapon" and it gets confiscated to be destroyed... no extra charges to the man.
Had he had a brand new axe handle that he reasonably could have bought for use as an axe handle, this would have been okay. When questioned it went like this..
"Why do you have this old axe handle"
"Because sometimes people need an axe handle when they get aggrivated"
So, thats the end of Mr Axe handle, and it gets put in the trunk of the squad car...
We take our arrestee to the hotel down the street to meet his sister and we release him with his court date in hand. Then he asks us to give him his axe handle back... to which he is told he can't because its a weapon...then it begins
"You are only keeping that, and only pulled me over because im black!"
Kindly the officer informs the man that we couldnt see who was driving until we had pulled him over... oh, and he could have spent the night in jail, but since he was being cooperative we saved him that hassle.
It continued "Ya'all are a bunch of racists, in gonna get you both fired"
Such a scene was caused that a African family walking past stopped to watch. The officer asked them if they were being disturbed, to which they replied in almost creepy unison "Yes".
And that is how a black man who was out to be a victim of racism was put in prison on disorderly conduct charges by members of his own race who were sick of PC bullshit.
Yeah its long, made of wood, and kind of splintery...mind the tip.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:04, 3 replies)
The most interesting thing about this taleis that you can lose you licence for failing emissions tests? I'm assuming you're not UK based which I why I ask.
Also racism... blah blah blah... people seem to play racism cards if they get in trouble with the police, which is almost like a get out of jail card now. Boo and hiss to PC I say.
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Lazlo Woodbine Panowie!, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:41,
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This was in the USnear a city which is incorrectly known for being very windy.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 23:03, closed)
Windy City...Anywhere near the place they filmed blazing Saddles at then?
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Tue 27 Nov 2007, 18:25,
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