For the record my brother was the one driving while our friend Ryan did the taping for the video above.
“This guy couldn’t maintain a single lane for more than about one minute,” Kelly Potter said. “He did not belong on the road.”
Potter said that a van forced his car off the road on Beltway 8 near Bissonnet Street at about 11:30 p.m. Thursday. Potter called 911 to report the driver and his passenger pulled out his video camera to record the driver.
Kelly witnessed a drunk driver, something he and I both despise, run someone off the road so he did what anyone else would do, called 911. A twenty minute response time is awesome for HPD to respond to someone who has already run someone off the road and is weaving through traffic.
A Houston police officer eventually pulled the driver over. After speaking with the driver, the officer determined that there was no indication the driver was impaired and saw no need to give a field sobriety test. He let the driver go home to his nearby apartment.
This is not 100% accurate according to Kelly. The officers decided to let him go since he was 20 feet from the driveway to his apartment. He spoke to the Sargent on duty right after the stop and was told they decided to let him go and said the officers may have made a mistake. Channel 2 news doesn’t mention this and my brother isn’t a liar. Go watch the video, I’ll try to get the whole thing from him and YouTube it this week, and tell me if being 20 feet from your driveway is an excuse to be let go? The dispatcher told the officers my brother was there with video and they never bothered to even talk to him. They didn’t speak to the driver long enough to discern anything about his state of sobriety. I know a little about this having driven wreckers. The officers involved were lazy and shirked their duty plain and simple. There is video evidence. They have a record of the stop. They should prosecute this guy. Of course they really can’t since the lazy officers who made the stop didn’t bother to look at the evidence, or even field test the drunk bastard.
“He (the officer) was there and we weren’t,” Wice said. “The fact that that officer ultimately concluded based upon their experience, training and expertise that no further investigation was needed, while somewhat dismaying to the Good Samaritan and maybe to some of us, ultimately that’s a decision that we don’t have the right to second guess.”
I have news for Mr. Wice: We DO have a right to second guess. Anyone who watches that video has a right to second guess the officers. We have a right to demand an investigation. We have a right to hold the officers accountable for their negligence. If that man left his apartment later than night, still drunk, and killed someone the blood of his victims would be on the heads of the HPD officers who didn’t bother to do their jobs. We have every right, in fact we have an obligation, to question actions such as these. Especially when there are credible witnesses and video evidence. We have a right to demand these officers be disciplined and made to do their jobs. If we don’t then HPD will be allowed to continue being lazy. Police officers are not above the law. Mr. Wice we are not dismayed. We are outraged.
This opens up a ton of questions. Is it alright to drive drunk if you make almost home? Did the officers know the drunk driver? How long until the officers shift was over?
I want to look into getting the audio of the traffic stop under one of the free information acts so we can hear what the officers heard. I will see what all I can gather and post here.
By now you have heard about Joe Horn. If you haven’t he’s the man who shot down two illegal immigrants, with felony records, who were fleeing after just having robbed his neighbor’s house. The liberals are up in arms over it because they don’t think you have a right to keep your own stuff. Not one of the loudmouthed morons screaming over this has done anything more than, in passing, mention that the “victims” were engaged in illegal activity, that they were here illegally, or that they had a felony record. Some of the news media have mentioned that one of them was deported 1999 for a cocaine conviction and was back in the US but they don’t mention there were multiple convictions for the same sort of thing they go shot doing.
Since most of of the stories are AP stories I am not bothering to find one that isn’t and will merely use actual quotes from the supporters of the “victims”:
Stephanie Storey - Fiance of Hernando Riascos Torres, felon, illegal immigrant, thief
“This is not over. It’s not over by a longshot…”
“premeditated murder”
“I’m very surprised that these two lives had no value, that someone can take the law into their own hands and shoot them down like animals and absolutely get away with it. I’m more than angry right now…”
Ms. Storey I feel absolutely no sorrow for your loss. While I hope both men were saved and had merely fallen from the path of good the fact is that your betrothed was stealing from someone when he was shot. He was a felon. He was an illegal immigrant. He is to blame for his own death. His life had no value because he himself had devalued it. Joe Horn stepped from his home and shot him because he was stealing from an honest, hard working, human being. The goblin would have called your husband had no respect for the laws in this country and had proven it time and time again. He is now dead because he was stupid. He took the risk of breaking into someone’s home and taking the stuff they had worked for, the stuff they had earned, and yet you think he should still be out there able to do the same thing again. It is over dear heart. It was over when the goblin ceased to use oxygen the rest of us might need some day. The waste of skin you were sharing your life with inflicted losses on others over and over again and you claim his had no value because the grand jury didn’t indict his killer. You, ma’am, need to search your soul and ask yourself when you fell of track so much that you would share your life with someone such as you were. Find yourself a church and get right with God. I hope the two men were in His good graces but it would be dishonest for me to say I was sad they have ceased to pollute the gene pool. Maybe I need to repent for that but for you to come after Mr. Horn is beyond the pale.
Of course the like of Quannel X are coming out of the woodwork decrying this as a racist crime. The 911 tape proves different. Mr. Horn used not a single racist epithet. He was concerned about his neighbor’s home and possessions and his own safety. He preserved both and the grand jury agreed. Good on ‘em…
I wish my neighbors were more like Joe Horn and less like a batty old crone and her ex-convict son.
Alright. I know you are all pining for an update on the job. I got it. It’s mine. It rocks. I will give more details soon but tonight and last night rocked for TV.
1. Moonlight - Leeeroy Jenkins reference (here for your viewing pleasure)
I am neither lucky or unlucky. I don’t knock on wood. I don’t care if a black cat crosses my path. However I am dying to post something about the job for which I am interviewing but have not for some strange fear of jinxing it. I feel odd about it to be honest. I want to tell everyone the situation might be coming to an end. Don’t get me wrong I am still in a deep hole but a job will stop the hole from getting deeper. It doesn’t pay as much, base, as the last one but it has the potential to pay more once bonuses, paid quarterly, factor in to the equation. It will be a lot of travel. I mean a lot but the policy is to have all employees in their own bed on Friday night with a couple of excceptions. So lift up a prayer for yours truly.
To all those who responded to the call for help I cannot thank you enough!
And to be honest I hate doing it now. My family needs help. We are nearly broke and the job search is not panning out. The one job I found I couldn’t keep because of pornography. I have some consulting work but precious little. I am stuck. I am trying to have faith but that’s hard right now. I am praying that this post won’t come across as trying to play on people’s heartstrings because it is anything but that. I am swallowing what pride I have left to admit the trouble in which I find my family. I know it’s a long-shot to ask for help here because I have so few readers but if anyone wants to help I will share everything we have outstanding and what consulting money I have coming in. I am not going to post the extent of things here for obvious reasons. We have food in the house and more money coming for that tomorrow. I don’t know how much I have coming in consulting fees right now but I will share the complete facts with anyone who ask. You can email me at flesh99 [AT] gmail [DOT] com and I will respond.
If anyone knows any assistance ministries in the Houston or Harris county areas please let me know. I have emailed a few today but can find very few through my google searches.
It occurs to me that someone might offer me consulting work if I post my resume so here it is.
For a number of years, as evidenced in my wife’s gallery, I shaved the boy’s heads. This made for cooler summers for them and easy hair care for us, “Go scrub your head” , and less need for hair care products (which I think men should shun anyway). Last summer I took them for real hair cuts. It was to be the last summer of the boys’ baldness. Well Aoghdan just asked me to shave his head. He originally wanted a mohawk but once it was cut in he decided to go bald. He is now in the tub scrubbing his head. I won’t do the other boys unless they ask but it looks like another bald summer with the Potter clan.
Now Aoghdan is so skinny that he looks like a cancer patient or a refugee with his head shaved. If I wasn’t married I’d tie a bandanna on his head, go to the store, and pick up women using him as bait. Yeah I am evil but women can’t resist a little boy who looks like he’s doing chemo! I am so wrong. I can’t even believe I admitted to that. It’s a good thing I am a Christian and God tells me that certain things are wrong. I would be so screwed if that were not the case.
I know I said I didn’t want to talk about politics but what I meant was that I don’t want to talk about the election. I still have issues I will post about. Illegal immigration is one of them. There is a piece by the New York Times, linked by Drudge that caught my attention today.
PHOENIX — The police in this city at the center of the immigration debate will soon ask all people arrested whether they are in the United States legally and will in certain cases report the information to the federal authorities, Mayor Phil Gordon announced on Friday.
People stopped for civil traffic violations like speeding will not be questioned, nor will crime victims or witnesses.
All those arrested on criminal charges like drunken driving and murder will be asked by officers whether they are in the United States legally.
Sounds good to me. I have the same concerns mentioned later in the article, that it doesn’t go far enough, but I think it’s a damn fine start. Cops asking criminals if they are also here illegally. Nothing wrong with that at all. Phoenix is a city full of Hispanics and a good part of them are here illegally. Why not try to stem the tide a little bit?
The program departs from a policy that is more than 10 years old that bars officers from asking people about their legal status in most cases. It also sets Phoenix apart from most other big cities with large immigrant populations, including New York and Los Angeles. The police in those cities generally avoid such questions over fears that they would lead to racial profiling and discourage immigrants from cooperating with the police.
Racial profiling? Whatchu talkin’ ’bout Willis? A white dude with no accent is not likely to be an illegal immigrant. Racial profiling works you regardless of what the liberal bleeding hearts would have us believe. When a single racial group is also the largest population of illegal immigrants then you need to target that racial group. It’s basic common sense. Hispanics are that group. There are more Hispanics here illegally than any other racial group. You can toss around buzzwords like “racial profiling” to try and mask what common sense dictates but it’s all a bunch of crap. If we want to stem the tide of illegal immigrants then we need to target Hispanics plain and simple. If we can turn the tide at that border then we need to look at the Asian community. We don’t need to stop until we stem the tide of illegal immigrants of all races.
Antonio D. Bustamante, a member of Los Abogados, a Hispanic legal group in Phoenix, said the policy changed “only because of xenophobia” and people “who hate the undocumented without understanding the huge contribution they make to the city and the economy.”
What a moron. I am not xenophobic in the least. I support every immigrant who has entered this country via legal means. I support their rights, their community, their place in America. I do not now and will never support anyone who’s very presence is an ongoing crime. The illegal aliens are not merely undocumented immigrants like the WOPs of old. They are illegally, by choice, knowingly breaking our immigration law. They commit fraud by getting fake SS numbers. They drain public resources. They are illegal and should be treated as criminals. We should ship them all back even if we have to do it one by one. And not just the Hispanics here illegally but every person regardless of race who has flaunted our laws.
By the way that’s just some choice quotes. Follow the link for the whole article. I have said my piece. Probably not very well due to the whole nicotine addiction kicking my ass at the moment. I have made it about an hour and a half at this point on the quitting smoking thing. Here’s hoping I can make the next half hour (taking it an hour at a time).
I need to quit smoking. There are many good reasons that have failed me in the past.
1. The kids
2. Money
3. My health
4. Social Stigma
And so on…
The point is that I no longer enjoy being a smoker. I don’t like feeling like a guest in my own body. I don’t like going outside in the muggy Houston weather at a damn bar just to light up. It is not fun at any point in time. It is not cool. My clothes stink. My breath stinks. The main reason for me right now is the fact I don’t like it. I know that sounds selfish but it’s a fact. I haven’t enjoyed it since I read The Easy Way To Stop Smoking. I almost made it recently but failed. Today I start again. I fired up my last one, without knowing it, about an hour ago. I made my decision whilst smoking what I hope to be my last smoke ever.
I am reading Smoke Free dot gov and have a copy of The Easy Way handy. It is time to take my life back from nicotine. It is time to stop being a guest in my own body. It is time to be smoke free. I know it’s a lofty goal but I tired of the insidious addiction that is nicotine. I know it won’t be easy.
I had a talk with the kids and let them know what might happen. I told them Daddy might be a jerk. I told them what was going on and they all agreed that they would do their best to support me and handle things while I get past the addiction. I can do this.
I am also praying a lot and that might be the largest help I get. So pray for me as well so that I can kick this crap and be done with it.
Well that’s needed cleaning up for some time…
The site is cleaner now. And the formatting is right. I think I need to go to bed.
Well I lost the second game. Got flat out out played. It was good. I hope to learn from it.
I have had so much I wanted to write about that I haven’t been able to pen anything. It’s frustrating to be honest.
I have six, about to be seven, kids and I want to write all about them. I want to write about how modern TV has shown me that our society is in horrible shape. I don’t want to write about politics at all. I want to write about music. I just have too much on my mind to get any of it out. Been twittering some but that’s not enough.
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