Image via WikipediaMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of . . . things left unsaid.
---Fyodor Dostoyevsky
by James Jarvis
from My Arcology Shortly after I left Arconia last night (the Arco gas station where I work), a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff gave a tall 20 year-old a marked five dollar bill to go and buy some beer at the Arco. The deputy parked behind the Arco and waited. The 5'11" 20 year-old man waited until it was real busy in the store and set his trap (put the beer on the counter).
Serge was working the counter alone and was distracted by some idiot woman who was trying to buy gas on her ATM card and was too stupid to know how to swipe her card. Plus, the limousine drivers, who buy gas on a charge system, were yelling for their pumps to be turned on and some kids were yammering "How much is this?" and "Do I have enough if I get two of these and one of those plus . . ."
I've learned something this month of selling gas at the Arco. There's something about the process of purchasing gasoline that turns normal people into rude, impatient, flaming assholes (I call them gasholes).
I don't know what it is. It's like these Angelinos think of driving as a God-given right and having to stop to buy gas somehow pisses them off . . . and they blame the gas clerk for their inconvenience.
I know it's just a matter of time before I pop one of these gasholes in the nose. I'm waiting on a certain taxicab driver now. Pow! He's gonna get it.
Anyway, the man got the beer, walked around the corner to the waiting sheriff, and BAM! They nailed Serge for a $900 ticket for selling beer to a minor.
Yes, the clerk pays ticket, not the store owner. We all have to be responsible for our own actions, even when we are being set up by the cops.
Serge makes maybe $600 a month at the Arco. If convicted, he'll be fired and perhaps a nice judge will let him make payments on the $900 ticket out of his unemployment checks.
Hooray! Hooray! Your tax dollars have put yet another hard-working $6.25 an hour man out on the street! Are you proud?
My question is this: since the deputy sheriff gave the 20 year-old man the money for the beer, isn't the deputy sheriff guilty of purchasing alcohol for a minor? Isn't he responsible for HIS actions?
Yes, it's a facetious question. We all know that the job of law enforcement is to criminalize ALL citizens so that there is a record on everybody, a way to control everybody. People without criminal records make cops nervous.
Don't believe me? Try this little experiment. Watch a cop's reaction when he meets a non-criminal in a store or something. He'll barely mumble a suspicious 'hello'. But watch what happens when that same cop runs across a known felon.
Alla sudden the cop gets all chattery and smiley, loud and chummy, like he's high on ecstasy or something. I've seen it a hundred times.
Cops like felons. They live in the same world. In Los Angeles, cops and criminals are just two rival gangs. Neither one of them can be trusted by non-criminals.
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