Monday, August 06, 2012

Your tax dollars at work

Or at play, depending on how you look at this.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the shooting of an off-duty deputy in his home. However, the incident, initially, is being called “accidental.”

The deputy, who works as a detention officer at the Bexar County jail, was celebrating his 26th birthday when he was shot, according to sheriff’s investigators at the scene.

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[Sgt. Louis] Antu said the deputy was in a bedroom of the home in the 2300 block of Marilyn Kay Street when he was shot in the hand with a shotgun, nearly severing his index finger.

The shooting happened during the deputy’s birthday party, and there were several people in the home at the time, including other off-duty detention officers, deputies and dispatchers, Antu said.

Because some of the party guests had been drinking alcohol, detectives, at first, had difficulty in getting information.

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San Antonio Police Department records show at least two other calls at the home.

Police officers investigated a burglary at the deputy’s home in late July. In January, someone at that address suffered a drug overdose, police said.
(from KSAT-12)

Work hard, play hard. And all that.

Say, isn't the sheriff's job an elected position?

2 comments:

Fowl Ideas said...

Politicians aren't the problem. Voters are the problem.

Albatross said...

No, politicians are the problem first and foremost. If you get the choice of voting for a piece of shit or a heap of dung, you can't be blamed for picking the least smelly one.

Or, if you vote for a flower bed and the manure pushes out between the stems at a later date, you can't really be blamed for that either.

Sometimes voters pick the worst candidate to start with, but many times they don't have a real choice in the first place, especially in local races. The best they can do is hope for a better option the next time around.