Local weirdness . . .
Apr. 27th, 2012 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amediaWe've been meaning to call our insurance agent for a while now to get a recommendation for a roofing company. (Our house, which was built in the 1970's, still has its original roof, and it's showing signs of age.) I'm just as glad we didn't . . .
Our State Farm agent just turned himself in to the police for drug possession in connection with an investigation of a drug ring operating locally in residential neighborhoods. (And yes, the "like a good neighbor . . . " jokes are flying thick and fast.) He was in possession of crack and powder cocaine and GHB, and it also turns out he has a DUI history.
Ya know, my inclination WRT recreational drugs tends to be a shrug, although I have seen how devastating cocaine can be, not just to the user, but to those of us who get stuckteaching his classes mopping up the trail of damage an addicted user leaves behind. But GHB? Is a date-rape drug. And DUI means that he's willing to get in his car and kill someone. I'm glad he's off the streets.
Of course, he's also on my pizza. I mean, I live in a fairly small city, and he's a prominent local businessman - his face is all over town on billboards, and his office sponsors the kind of pizza coupons that the pizza company glues to the boxes, so there's a big photo of him on a coupon stuck to the top of the pizza box in my fridge. Freaky.
Our State Farm agent just turned himself in to the police for drug possession in connection with an investigation of a drug ring operating locally in residential neighborhoods. (And yes, the "like a good neighbor . . . " jokes are flying thick and fast.) He was in possession of crack and powder cocaine and GHB, and it also turns out he has a DUI history.
Ya know, my inclination WRT recreational drugs tends to be a shrug, although I have seen how devastating cocaine can be, not just to the user, but to those of us who get stuck
Of course, he's also on my pizza. I mean, I live in a fairly small city, and he's a prominent local businessman - his face is all over town on billboards, and his office sponsors the kind of pizza coupons that the pizza company glues to the boxes, so there's a big photo of him on a coupon stuck to the top of the pizza box in my fridge. Freaky.
