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We have progressed to the point in our nanny state society where a person who is in a vehicle that has been driven into a body of water and is sinking needs to be told to get out of the vehicle before they drown.

A 911 dispatcher was suspended  for not telling a man in a sinking SUV that it would be a good idea to get out before the vehicle sank and took him with it. Seriously?

The real tragedy here is that people like this don’t die before they pass on their worthless genes to the next generation. Where is Darwin when you need him?

There is a lot of talk on the news about an NFL ‘hazing’ scandal. I am not a football fan, so I don’t know a lot about the team or the league, but I do know a bit about the law here.

Apparently, Richie Incognito was bullying a fellow team member. He sent texts to his teammate that contained racial slurs, threats of physical violence, and sexual content.

Multiple sources confirmed to ESPN that the following is a transcript
of a voice message Incognito left for Martin in April 2013, a year
after Martin was drafted:

“Hey, wassup, you half n—– piece of s—. I saw you on Twitter,
you been training 10 weeks. [I want to] s— in your f—ing mouth. [I’m
going to] slap your f—ing mouth. [I’m going to] slap your real mother
across the face [laughter]. F— you, you’re still a rookie. I’ll kill
you.”

 In this case, the other players on the team took it a step further, and got up from the lunch table when he sat down, in an apparent attempt to ostracize him. That takes it from being an isolated act of a single player to an organizational problem for his employer. Especially when it turns out that the coach wanted the player harassed, to “toughen him up.”

Compounding this, the father of the player that appears to be the ringleader entered the fray, and has also begun slamming the aggrieved player.

Even worse for the NFL, it turns out that the senior players shake down the new ones in every team, and force them to pay for trips, dinners, and other expensive ‘gifts’. ESPN reported that Incognito allegedly got Martin to contribute $15,000
to help finance a trip to Las Vegas by a group of Dolphins even though
Martin preferred not to travel with them. Martin gave Incognito the
money, fearing the consequences if he did not.

Why does a group of athletes, all millionaires, need a rookie to pay for anything? Harassment, pure and simple.

It seems that rookie players are often hazed, with new players being forced to pick up dinner tabs for the team of tens of thousands of dollars. According to a former Dolphins teammate, Ricky Williams:

 “Really I haven’t seen much hazing,” he said in an interview on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”

He
said it’s a well-known “rite of passage” for a high draft pick to pick
up a big dinner bill for some other players on the team.
“Once you
sign that contract there’s a lot of rules, written and unwritten, that
you are expected to follow,” he said. “For me, this is something that
should be handled internally. I don’t think the media, I don’t think
fans, I don’t think anyone outside is really in a position to really
fully understand what occurs inside of a locker room and inside of a
football team.”

Of course, this is the type of behavior that jocks display and get away with, because they are good at playing a game. Acting like juiced up idiots, drugs, alcohol, DUI, being general asshats. They get a pass for
their entire lives, and then are surprised when finally someone calls
them on it.
  So now we have a league of billionaire team owners who employ hundreds of millionaires, all of whom are now demonstrably guilty of racial, sexual, and physical harassment. The lawyers are drooling…

Andrew Branca reports that the Democrats in the state legislature of Florida are looking to gut the state’s self defense laws. They are looking to repeal 776.013: the castle doctrine AND stand your ground.

Democrats at the state level are moving to repeal 776.013, the self
defense law that permits defense against home invaders, burglars, and
armed robbers. It also contains Stand Your Ground and the Castle
Doctrine.
If passed, it would remove the right to use force to defend
your home, your car, and your self from a home invader, and create a
requirement that you retreat from a person using or threatening force
against you. Wife getting raped? Sorry, you must retreat rather than
protect her. House getting robbed? Run. Burglar in house? You must
leave, and allow them to have your stuff.

Senate Bill 116 (SB-116) is
being brought by Senator Geraldine F. “Geri” Thompson (D, and House
Bill 4003 (HB-4003) is being advanced in the Florida State House of
Representatives by FL Representative Alan B. Williams (D).

This is the real goal of the Trayvon Martin agitators- assaulting self defense and gun rights.

Face to face in Central Florida only, please:
a Romanian SAR-1 (AK-47 clone) complete with ten 30 round magazines, a 10 round magazine, and a 40 round magazine- $750.

Also, 840 rounds of 7.62x39mm Wolf FMJ Ammo, plus 300 rounds of 7.62x39mm Georgia Arms FMJ Ammo for $275.

The ammo works out to 24 cents a round, and if you figure the magazines are worth $12 each, the rifle is priced at a reasonable $600. This is a good deal, but I do not want to sell the magazines without the rifle.

A man is arrested for filming a cop performing a traffic stop, and the police spokesman had this to say:

whatever his constitutional protections may have been, that decision
does not come without consequences, and if those decisions and those
actions put the public at risk or put a law enforcement officer at risk,
we are prepared to pursue criminal charges and seek judicial review of
that action.

So a cop’s perceived risk level trumps your constitutional rights. Of course, I also find it difficult to understand how a man filming you places you at risk.

I’m off to a SCUBA trade show today, and I am going to try out some dry suits in the water. It was either that, or go play safety diver at a Tough Mudder event. I’d rather play with some new gear than hang around guarding a mud puddle all day, especially since it is near 90 degF today.

Maddy, a juror (juror B39) in the Zimmerman case, says that the trial ruined her life. She claims that it resulted in her being fired from her job, and has cost her financially. She goes on to say:

she questions whether she was right to acquit Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. She says she has followed reports on Zimmerman since the trial ended this summer.
“We all know who’s guilty,” she says. “George Zimmerman thinks he didn’t do anything wrong.”

 I want you to keep in mind that this is the same juror who went on the air just after the trial, and claimed that Zimmerman “got away with murder” for killing Trayvon Martin and feels she owes an apology Martin’s parents. She also went on air to say:

George Zimmerman got away with murder, but you can’t get away from God.

 As a single mother with eight small children, who were recent transplants to the area, she easily could have gotten dismissed as a hardship case, but she didn’t. Why not? My guess is that she saw a chance to make money and jumped at it. As one of the jurors that convicted Zimmerman, she would have made a lot of money and been a celebrity of sorts. That didn’t happen, so the money and fame isn’t there. Not like

The other jurors stated that there was a single holdout for conviction, and it was Maddy. According to her own statements:

Maddy went into deliberations believing Zimmerman was guilty of
second-degree murder. “I was the juror that was going to give them the
hung jury. I fought to the end,” she said. “But as the law was read to
me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can’t say
he’s guilty.”

This is a woman who seems to be against self defense. She admits that she wanted to find Zimmerman guilty, but the law “thwarted” her:

 A lot of us wanted to find something bad, something we could connect to
the laws,” said Maddy, who had recently moved to Sanford, Fla., from
Chicago. “But as the law was read to me, if you have no proof he killed
him intentionally, you can’t say he’s guilty,” she added.

Still, Maddy is hoping to cash in by selling her story to Inside Edition. Welcome to your 15 minutes, Maddy.