Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Only 68 Cars?

  • There's a certain irony in a mass-transit agency providing cars to its employees.

    It's likely most company car assignments are justified, says Richard Rodriguez, president of the CTA. But the CTA might be giving cars to too many people, Rodriguez says.

    The CTA provides "company cars" with take-home privileges to 68 employees, agency records show. They include 38 upper-level managers who are paid more than 100,000ドル a year.

  • The number of people with CTA cars is relatively small compared with its overall work force of about 11,000. Most employees with cars have them because they are on call around the clock and have to travel throughout the CTA's service area.
Gee. 11,000 employees. On call. Travel around the city. And the CTA gives out 68 cars.

We wonder if any other City Departments give out that many cars?

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posted by SCC at 12:31 AM 28 comments

Monday, June 15, 2009

The Letter - Very Long Post

OK, we finally got a few e-mails, including at least one exempt who forwarded it from their personal account. We expect IAD will be told to track down that exempt first thing Monday morning. Here's the letter that was posted to most exempts in the (削除) Patrol Division (削除ここまで) Bureau of Patrol. The original is italicized. Our comments appear in the bold:
  • Words can not describe the anger, outrage, and sorrow, we all felt Monday morning when Alex Valadez was violently taken from us by 2 "spineless cowards." Yet, those emotions were funneled into great police work allowing charges to be lodged almost immediately. That end result is due in great part to the initial observations of TRU Officers whose keen eyes spotted the offender's parked car allowing the investigation to rapidly advance. The rest was great team work by all Department resources to send a clear message; you will not kill a Chicago Police Officer and get away with it!
It was great police work, mixed in with a bit of luck, that located the vehicle and Dugan is right to note it. After all, what police work isn't hard work and being in the right place at the right time?
  • Alex's murder in a drive-by shooting underscores the impunity in which gangbangers operate. While we can't control what the judges do (or don't do), we sure can impact on gangbangers driving abilities. There are too many guns in cars left unchecked and traffic enforcement as a means to ferret out these illegal weapons is almost a lost art. We need to get back to basics and focus on gangbangers in vehicles. A vehicle impounded for noise or any of the other categories can't be used in a drive-by! Take their cars and leave 'em walking!

    It is unconscionable what happened to Alex Valadez; a Chicago Police Officer gunned down in a drive-by shooting while standing on a sidewalk. Shame on us!
These appear to be the paragraphs that a number of commentators are making hay about. Dugan says that traffic enforcement to find illegal weapons is a lost art, but it's probably more of a dormant art. Everyone is still more than a bit wary about cameras, J-Fed, recent court rulings and the like. A lack of training to work within the changing ground rules is a Department failure, not an officer failure. Leaders are supposed to lead by definition, by design and by example. This isn't happening because the leaders don't trust those leading them. Witness the upheaval within the exempt ranks - it's downright embarrassing.

The quote, "Shame on us!" when taken on it's own should upset any officer worthy of the badge. But taken in context and in the message Dugan was trying to convey, it's merely a poor choice of words and not worthy of outrage.
  • This is an excerpt from this morning's John Kass column, "...It's a terrible thing what happened to that officer, but there's something good about it, if that's possible," said the man, who identified himself as Cornell. Residents say the neighborhood has swarmed with police since the shooting, and the men who usually hang out on the street are lying low. "It's so quiet now. Old people feel they can come outside, and sit on the porch, and the old women can mess around in their yards, with their flowers," he said. "It's quiet now."

    What was done in Englewood in the wake of Alex's murder was the right thing to do, but it begs the question, why aren't we doing this all the time? Did it take the murder of one of our own to finally step it up and do the right thing for the right reasons? We should be targeting the gangbanging, gun toting thugs, and taking them off the street ALL THE TIME! We put a lot of resources in 007 to send a message. Its time we take that message to other parts of the City.
Why aren't we doing this all the time? BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE FUCKING MANPOWER! We can shut down any neighborhood any time we want for a short period, maybe a week tops. And then mission creep sets in. Reverend start to bitch. Gangsters agitate because they're in the business of making money and too much of the community relies on the underground economy provided by dope. The community senses an opportunity to score a lottery ticket on the police and start making allegations.

And it's not just in that neighborhood. The gangs in other parts of the city feel the pressure ease up because so much is devoted to one area and they start to settle old scores, make territory moves that might have been kept in check before, move more work, recruit more customers, etc.

The only way Dugan's "message" is going to be felt is with a wave of hiring, an exodus of hidden house mice, and a "back-to-the-basics" approach that involves fully staffing Beat cars, Rapids and watches around the city with support from specialized units. Not all this "Strike Force" bullshit that strips the districts, has people running around putting out fires, and then leaving a neighborhood (and the district) in the lurch when another "fire" pops up 4 miles away. Temporary pressure doesn't stop the bleeding and a tourniquet usually means the amputation of the limb. This is the same thing.
  • I am asking the District/Unit Commanders to step way out of the box and look at every conceivable way to increase vehicle stops/impoundments so that these gangbanging thugs will not feel they can drive around armed, looking for prey. Every drive-by has the potential for hitting an innocent person and we can not allow another Police Officer to fall victim again. Don't let our previous ways of doing things get in the way of your creative ideas. I'm really tired of hearing "we can't do it because...." You have the mission, how are we going to get it done?

    In the next couple of days, I expect Area Deputy Chiefs and the ADS SFG to meet with your respective District/Unit Commanders and kick around ideas to accomplish the mission. Wednesday afternoon I will be meeting with the Deputy Chiefs to discuss what ideas you have come up with.
You have a force already - you stripped it from the Districts. MSF or TRU or GEU should do a few months of directed impound missions if that's what you want. Order "no discretion" for driving offenses. Suspended? Tow it. Revoked? Tow it and crush it. Loud sound? Impound it. Fireworks? Whores? Guns? Take it, no breaks.

The districts are in constant backlog and can't run the missions piled on them now. We're running from legit domestics, to baby momma drama, to disrespecting 12-year-olds, to babysitting ambulances that never asked for an assist in the first place. And that's to say nothing of the dope jobs, anonymous disturbances on the corners, false burglar alarms, an AIRA system that takes three times as long to fill out as a paper report, an iCLEAR system that's down five times a week for "maintenance," four hour waits for theft jobs, half manpower on the desks...do we have to go on? You have your Strike Force at the cost of District response times - use it.
  • For years I've heard "you can't get in trouble if you don't do anything." I bristled when I first heard it and my attitude hasn't changed today. District/Unit Commanders have an absolute obligation to ensure personnel under their Command are "pulling their weight." BOP has previously sent out a "2008" listing of those under your Command with little to no activity. As I expect you to hold your Watch Commanders accountable, I am holding you accountable for your Command. We can't afford to have spectators; we need WARRIORS and should expect nothing less!
We, too, bristled when we first heard that. But then we saw lots of people with certain last names who could do "anything" and skate like it was nothing. We saw dogs getting ahead while damn good street coppers toiled in anonymity without anything like a fair shot at a promotion and the chance to mold and lead new generations. We saw the political administration treat cops like crap, dragging out "negotiations" for years for the simple reason that they knew we couldn't strike back.

And then we watched our "leaders." A superintendent that liked to hang out with the Outfit. A serial sexual harasser promoted. A drug using Chief who pissed hot - twice. The bedroom antics of quite a number of bosses. An Assistant Superintendent who had guns and drugs stored at a property registered in her name. Were any of them held "accountable?" No. If the rumors are to be believed, these aren't even the tiniest tip of the iceberg.

Here's the thing about WARRIORS - they have to be led. They have to have the support of the organization. And they in turn have to have confidence in the organization. That isn't present here.

And here's the thing about organizations - when they fail, the LEADERS are supposed to be held accountable, to fall on their swords. Not throw the warriors under the bus. Accountability at the LEADER level isn't happening anywhere.

And when that happens, warriors do what they do best - survive to fight another day.

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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM 323 comments

Fake Students?

In a City of fake voters, ghost pay rollers, and imaginary minority front firms, is anyone really surprised that the Chicago Public Schools system was (and continues) to use imaginary attendance figures to get a bigger slice of the federal pie?
  • Attendance records obtained by the Tribune show that a handful of chronically truant students at Bowen Environmental Studies Team High School on the South Side were rarely marked absent. Instead they were listed as being on "school function" -- such as field trips -- for at least a month at a time. One girl was placed on "school function" for 50 straight school days, according to attendance sheets.
How about the Tribune look into system-wide inflation of attendance numbers, especially on Day One, always an entertaining event where children and families have to be lured to school with promises of free book bags, school supplies, trips and a car, instead of because it's the right thing to do if you want to get an education and a job later in life:
  • Research shows that regular attendance is crucial to students' success. Public school districts receive state and federal money based on how many students are in school, so when kids drop out, funding dries up. Chicago's district estimates losing 18ドル million to 20ドル million a year in state money because of dropouts and truancy. Student attendance also helps determine staffing levels -- and whether school employees keep their jobs.
Um...we must be extra dense today, but could someone explain how the CPS loses 18ドル - 20ドル million a year if they aren't spending it on the kids that don't show up? Shouldn't that be listed as a savings?

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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM 43 comments

Save 2ドル.6 Million

And depending on the retirements since March of 2008, the City can save it tomorrow:
  • All records in this database are public and were obtained under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act by the Chicago Suntimes. Chicago records as of 3-2008

    Rank Name Title (Dist. Mgrs) Salary

    5030 MADDEN, JOHN; ADMIN MNGR; 103,776ドル
    6124 REBICH, REBECCA; ADMIN MNGR; 99,084ドル
    9979 LENIHAN, CONCETTA; ADMIN MNGR; 90,312ドル
    12416 FALATOVICS, MICHAEL; ADMIN MNGR; 86,220ドル
    12416 FERA, ZENIA; ADMIN MNGR; 86,220ドル
    12416 HENDERSON, MARTHA; ADMIN MNGR; 86,220ドル
    12416 WILLIAMS, JENNIFER; ADMIN MNGR; 86,220ドル
    16112 CARROLL, BEVERLY; ADMIN MNGR; 82,308ドル
    16112 CLOYD, WENDY; ADMIN MNGR; 82,308ドル
    16112 EARLS, ELLAWEASE; ADMIN MNGR; 82,308ドル
    16112 OSEDA, MARIA; ADMIN MNGR; 82,308ドル
    16112 RAMOS, LAWRENCE; ADMIN MNGR; 82,308ドル
    16112 SANDERS, DANIEL; ADMIN MNGR; 82,308ドル
    16112 SNARSKI, BONNIE; ADMIN MNGR; 82,308ドル
    16112 ZIARNO, DIANE; ADMIN MNGR; 82,308ドル
    21030 BATES, WANDA; ADMIN MNGR; 78,564ドル
    21030 EPPOLITO, JOSEPH; ADMIN MNGR; 78,564ドル
    21030 KANTOR, CHARLENE; ADMIN MNGR; 78,564ドル
    26900 BREIMON, PATRICIA; ADMIN MNGR; 74,280ドル
    26900 CARUSO, ANTHONY; ADMIN MNGR; 74,280ドル
    26900 KILLEN, DONNA; ADMIN MNGR; 74,280ドル
    26900 O NEAL, ROCHELLE; ADMIN MNGR; 74,280ドル
    26900 SZEWCZYK, THADDEUS; ADMIN MNGR; 74,280ドル
    33182 BROWN, JUDITH; ADMIN MNGR; 70,896ドル
    33182 COLLINS, JAMES; ADMIN MNGR; 70,896ドル
    33182 WILSON, SHEILA; ADMIN MNGR; 70,896ドル
    57674 CLARK HENSON, ALLYSON; ADMIN MNGR; 61,668ドル

    TOTAL 2,679,960ドル.00
Without a doubt, one of the most obviously political moves ever in this Department. Before a single Detention Aide is laid off, all of these people should be gone.

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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM 138 comments

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Tangled Web

It's going to take the feds years to untangle this crap. And by that point, most of our readers will be retired and living on what used to be a pension.

  • Chicago water officials wanted a place to park dozens of dump trucks they'd been leasing since the collapse of the city's scandalous Hired Truck Program.

    They found the spot in October 2006 -- a massive industrial property on Pulaski Road, just north of the Stevenson Expy.

    For a year, they parked dump trucks outside. Then, city officials decided they wanted to move the trucks indoors to a warehouse on the 15-acre site.

    As they negotiated a lease for that building, it changed hands, city officials say. And they say they had no idea the new owners included an investment company co-owned by Mayor Daley's nephew, whose firm manages 68ドル million for five city pension funds.

So "Pension-gate" has now joined with "Hired Truck." Fusco and Novak (with Spielman hitching a ride) have connected the dots that started almost 4 years ago with the City hiring connected trucks to sit around and do nothing at the cost of some 40ドル million.

Can you imagine if these guys worked as federal prosecutors? Daley would have been gone two elections ago.

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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM 94 comments

The Streak Ends

You never talk to the pitcher when they are in the groove. And although it doesn't really matter to anyone reading here, it involved every single one of you in some small way.

For the first twelve days of June, we never dipped below 10,000 visitors a day, including weekends. That is unprecedented in our four years of existence - 152,000 people in 12 days.

So once again, we thank you, the readers, the visitors, the lurkers and the contributors. You are why we do this and you are why we continue to do what we do. Maybe the fight isn't lost. Maybe the history isn't written in stone. Maybe we aren't screaming into the void as it has seemed recently. Time will tell.

Insignificant. And getting more insignificant every single day.

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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM 31 comments

Suspicious Timing

  • As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than 115,000ドル worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

    The Illinois senator's 2008 financial disclosure statement shows he sold mutual-fund shares worth 42,696ドル on Sept. 19, the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders in a closed meeting to craft legislation to help financially troubled banks. The same day, he bought 43,562ドル worth of Berkshire Hathaway's Class B stock, the disclosure shows.

Gosh. The very next day, "turban" Durbin cashes out. It's almost like he had a vision of the Treasury Secretary letting him know that the crap was about to hit the fan.

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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM 27 comments

Virus Lays Us Low

SCC is under the weather. There's some bug going around that isn't H1N1 swine flu. Posting will be sporadic for Sunday.

And yes, we meant the Dugan letter.

Open post in the meantime.

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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM 26 comments

Saturday, June 13, 2009

THAT Letter

We have one copy in our possession.

We'd like another to verify the content and be able to dissect it properly.

Please forward.

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posted by SCC at 9:11 AM 81 comments

Tapes Destroyed

  • Daley said he did not think his nephew had traded on his family connections to drum up funding for DV Urban Realty, which he founded three years ago and quit this week.

    Investigators have sought recordings of closed-door pension board meetings that might shed some light on how Vanecko got the business, but the Tribune has learned that at least one pension fund decided late last year to destroy such recordings. City Comptroller Steve Lux made the motion to delete tapes of private police pension board discussions, possibly including conversations about DV Urban, under a state law that allows deletion of old records.
Yes, the only thing that might have cleared Vanecko and the assorted Pension Board representatives from any appearance of impropriety were conveniently destroyed in the fall/winter of 2008.

Of course, the tapes might not have cleared anybody at all. And there's a Federal subpoena floating around with all sorts of uncomfortable questions that are going to have to be answered at some point. And the Feds are notoriously unhappy when they have to rely on recall and faulty memories that seem to lead them astray. That's when the contempt and lying charges start appearing. If we we're the Pension Board members, we'd be hiring a whole shitload of attorneys about now.

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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM 92 comments

The Price to Join

  • Whether they’re patrolling Chicago’s streets or handling the phones at headquarters, much of a police officer’s job involves public perception: that solid and impenetrable wall of blue with each policeman and policewoman outfitted in the instantly recognizable Chicago Police uniform.

    But what you might not know is that your neighborhood "Officer Friendly" shells out thousands of dollars for everything from her impeccably pressed shirt to the gun and holster she carries.

    And though officers receive an annual equipment allowance of about 1,800,ドル the costs add up quickly. If officers bought just one each of the minimum required equipment – a scenario police spokesman Roderick Drew said isn’t common – the price tag totals nearly 4,000ドル.

The article also provides a partial breakdown of costs for summer, winter, dress and optional uniform items, though we don't think the summer item labeled "shorts" is a regular item for anyone not working the Bike Unit and they miss things like boots, cuffs, OC, asp, leather cases for all the tools, and a gear bag to carry all the extra equipment. They don't even mention the vest that should be replaced every 5 to 7 years at almost a grand a pop.

It's a good beginning rebuttal to the aldercreatures and bean counters who started the bullshit about how uniform allowances are "bonuses" that should be cut. But it could go a lot farther.

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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM 81 comments

Starvation Time

  • The recession is hitting home for inmates, too: Some cash-strapped states are taking aim at prison menus.

    Georgia prisoners already didn't get lunch on the weekends, and the Department of Corrections recently eliminated the midday meal on Fridays, too. Ohio may drop weekend breakfasts and offer brunch instead. Other states are cutting back on milk and fresh fruit.

    Officials say prisoners are still getting enough calories, but family members and critics say the changes could make prisoners irritable and food a valuable commodity, increasing the possibility of violence.

Well it's a good thing that those nasty prisoners are all locked up where they can throw all the tantrums they want inside 20 foot walls of concrete and barbed wire. If bread and water were good enough for the Bastille, it should be good enough for American prisons. We think a prison population suffering from scurvy, rickets and assorted vitamin deficiencies would be a good thing in the long run.

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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM 37 comments

Analog Gone

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If you cannot see the above graphic, you need to buy a converter box so you can read the new and improved digital signal of SCC. The above is a truly hilarious picture of J-Fed with no pants exiting a hotel room. You can see the shadow of what appears to be the mayor reflected in a hallway mirror. The bellhop knocking on the door is the airplane crash sergeant. And Mike Masters is wearing a snazzy little French maid outfit.

Open post for the weekend.

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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM 35 comments

Friday, June 12, 2009

Now What?

  • An attorney for a Chicago police officer sentenced to 3 1/2 years for the videotaped beating of a man in a wheelchair launched a salvo against Police Supt. Jody Weis this afternoon, saying veteran Chicago police officers should fear he'll throw them under the bus if they step out of line.

    "In my opinion, this prosecution brought by Supt. Weis was misguided and vindictive," defense lawyer Terry Gillespie said of his client William Cozzi. "I've got a message for all those fine officers in blue out there: After 15 years on the job, don't snap. You'll get thrown under the bus, and it'll be a federal bus, and it'll be by your own superintendent."

We're going to say something here again and once again, tiny brains are going to twist it and misinterpret it and claim we're saying all sorts of stuff we aren't saying at all. We will preface it with the following:
  • Cozzi did wrong. Got it?
He did wrong. He got whacked administratively. He took a two year suspension and was reinstated by the Police Board. A board appointed by the mayor. There was no cover up. There was no "blue wall of silence." A court upheld the Police Board decision to reinstate.

Cozzi also faced a judge for his conduct. He pleaded guilty. He got probation just like hundreds and thousands of other people with clean criminal records get every single year in Cook County. He attended anger management classes, did community service and fulfilled all the conditions of his probation (which is more than you can say for the killer of Officer Valadez who violated his probation at least three times and never spent a day behind bars for it.) He apologized in open court to the drunk he struck and the city settled the civil suit. In other words, he was already punished.

And then he got fucked. Truly screwed by a fed looking to make a name for himself. And in Cozzi getting the shortest end of the shittiest stick around, an entire Department was lost. Instead of worrying about the problems in front of us (crime), everyone started worrying about what was behind us (J-Fed). And not just the street coppers. The brass started looking over their shoulders, too. And with everyone looking behind for the knife, leadership became nonexistent and now what have we got?

De-policing. Ticket slowdowns. Arrests down tremendously. Useless videos where the brass claims "we've got your back" but no one believes it. The attitude of "no public contact = no problems." Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Meaningless number shuffling. Bullshit missions and bullshit "strike forces" that do nothing to address crime but merely push it from one corner to another. Or from one neighborhood to another quieter neighborhood that used to be quiet and crime free, but now is police-free and open to pillaging.

A million questions and no answers. We are at a loss.

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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM 217 comments

Can't Catch a Break

  • A 43-year-old Chicago Police officer has been charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl.
And once again, the comment sections of both papers are alive with the bashing of police. He was arrested, charged and his name publicized, yet the Department takes a never ending beating, as if we'd defend or cover for a child molester.

And tomorrow, we'll get up, put on the uniform that makes us a target for all sorts of crap, and respond to some tens of thousand of calls for service for an ungrateful public that can't function without the police, without a contract, while the politicians who ravage and plunder enjoy 6% raises and 120,000ドル part-time jobs while Daley shovels money to his son and nephews and our pension bleeds our retirement security away.

We can hardly wait for the sun to rise.

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posted by SCC at 12:04 AM 40 comments

Gang? That's Silly! Just Silly!

  • Bulls star point guard Derrick Rose apologized Thursday for a photo of him flashing gang signs — a pose he now says was a bad joke.

    The photo, which recently surfaced online, shows the Englewood native flashing Gangster Disciples signs and an unidentified man behind him flashing signs of a rival gang. Rose said it was taken during his one year at University of Memphis.

    The NBA’s Rookie of the Year said in a statement he is "anti-gang, anti-drug and anti-violence" but used poor judgment.

    "Recently, a photo has been circulating on the Internet which appears to depict me flashing a gang sign," Rose said in his statement. "This photo of me was taken at a party I attended in Memphis while I was in school there, and was meant as a joke...a bad one, I now admit.

    "I want to emphatically state, now and forever, that Derrick Rose is anti-gang, anti-drug, and anti-violence. I am not, nor have I ever been, affiliated with any gang and I can’t speak loudly enough against gang violence, and the things that gangs represent.

We aren't going to waste the bandwidth on the picture. It's at the link provided and scattered throughout the comment sections. But is anyone really surprised? Wasn't there a group of gang bangers going around robbing NBA affiliated persons just recently on the west side? Aren't there dozens of NBA players sporting gang and thug tattoos? The NFL isn't much better.

Our entertainment dollars go elsewhere.

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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM 72 comments

South Side Shooting

  • A man was fatally shot by an on-duty Chicago Police officer Thursday afternoon in the Hamilton Park neighborhood on the South Side.

    A police officer shot and injured a man shortly before 7 p.m. at the intersection of 70th Street and Eggleston Avenue, according to Mark Payne, spokesman for the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates police-involved shootings.

    Police observed a traffic violation in the 7000 block of South Eggleston Avenue and attempted to pull over the vehicle, when two men inside ditched the vehicle and fled in different directions, according to a statement from police News Affairs.

The rest of the article sounds like an attempted disarming, which seems to be happening with more and more frequency.

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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM 21 comments

Daley "Disappointed"

  • Mayor Daley acknowledged today that he tried to get his nephew to drop out of a risky real estate venture involving city employees’ pension funds a year and a half ago but said his nephew didn’t listen, causing tension in the closeknit Daley family.

  • "While many of you have speculated that I knew of Bob’s business relationship, I did not," he told reporters. "I found out about it the same way most people did — in the news when the story broke. When I did find out, I made it very clear that it was not a good decision and that he should end the business relationship immediately.

    [...] "Perception is everything," Daley went on to say.

Amazingly, he knows where every nickel and dime is spent when it's something he gets to attach his name to it or cut a ribbon or when it comes to hiring all sorts of people, but when the feds get involved or it's a family friend or a multi-million dollar contract to fake minority front companies, Shortshanks doesn't know a thing.

The perception here is Daley is a lying sack of crap who's up against the ropes in terms of a family member who has been caught red handed overreaching in the public trough.

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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM 65 comments

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Cozzi Gets 40 Months

posted by SCC at 3:41 PM 199 comments

CPDK

In the area of 76th and Exchange, the following graffiti was spotted by a reader of ours and he felt it necessary to bring it to everyone's attention. We agree:

The e-mail also stated this has been popping up with alarming frequency around the north end of 004 where there was a recent "Shots Fired at the Police" incident. Additionally, an individual was stopped wearing a t-shirt with the "CPDK" on it. The explanation given? It stood for "Corrupt Police Department Killer" but we highly doubt that. No word on what happened to the individual wearing the shirt, or the shirt itself following discovery. We know what would have happened in the old days.

We miss the old days.

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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM 144 comments

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