July 13, 2006
Crack Attack
Now this, courtesy of an APD drug bust, is a great picture. Those are apparently "crack cookies," according to the APD blotter. By the way, the headline of that release: "Police put dent in city’s supply of crack cocaine." As one commenter pointed out, "OK - illegal drugs - not funny. But the headline is - made me think that the police had a crack party."
More blotter news below the Expand-o-Tron.
This morning brought more strange crime news. What was originally reported as two separate car-jackings turned out to be part of a crime spree that inlcuded kidnapping, armed robbery, and sexual assault. The Statesman's timeline reads like the outline for a bizarre episode of 12:03 a.m.: At H-E-B Cadillac is stolen and driver is shot in the buttocks.
1:18 a.m.: At Chevron gas station, man tries but fails to steal a Buick.
3 a.m.: At Woodland Heights apartments, a woman, reportedly sexually assaulted, ran naked through the complex after freeing herself from the trunk of the Cadillac.Our sympathies go out to the victims, but that's some weird, wacky, wild stuff.
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"put a dent" in the city's crack supply. I mean, one pringles can (and the little can at that) puts a dent in the supply? $50,000 in seven seizures over 10 years. Isn't this a little self-congratulatory. When one person get's a DWI does that "put a dent" in Austin's drinking and driving problem. Geez.
It's funny, a lot of people on the blotter were saying the same thing. Apparently Austin's tolerance for APD spin is very low. Surprise, surprise.
"But the headline is - made me think that the police had a crack party."
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Not only that, it sounds like the city is supplying the crack, in some kind of "Crack-For-Cops" program.