Yesterday, the photos of teens arrested for underage drinking were published in the local newspaper in Signal Mountain, Tennessee. The tenth teen seems to have missed the memo on appearing contrite for your mugshot. It reminds me of that Far Side Cartoon of the guy whistling in hell and the Devil saying “We just aren’t reaching that guy.”
In all, 17 students were arrested from the Baylor School, Girls Preparatory School and the McCallie School. The happy one at the end may need a bit of coaching for her arraignment.
I was going to post some comments, but Tony Sidaway absolutely beat me to it.
The drinking age IS absurd in this country, and these teens all know it, she just has the heart to laugh about the silliness of it all.
What? Are we in Russia? How come none of the commenters are sticking up for the kid?
That kid is smiling because the opCay taking the photo had his zipper down.
That dog in the photo on this blog yesterday had it right. The taker of the photo had his zipper down and was brain dead while thinking up the post we are discussing here about mugshots.
Whoever “reached” the rest of those kids in those photos has abused them by re-posting their photos on this blog as if they are guilty of something. The logic goes like this. If arrested then you did something wrong and are guilty and we the Cops have a right to take your picture and you have an obligation to look contrite and then we get the local newspaper to post the photo in the newspaper and you are henceforth convicted and scarred for life.
How do you combat this collusion between the igPays and the newspaper publishers who abuse your kid to make money? It is child abuse of course.
And anyone who supports this needs to go to law school and take some constitutoional law courses from an American.
Say cheese: ‘America’s toughest Sheriff’ lets public rate mugshots online
By Daily Mail Reporter
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378608/Americas-toughest-sheriff-posts-worst-mugshots-online–Joe-Arpaio-lets-public-rate-them.html#ixzz2Si1kaJJa
Next thing ya know they will expect Dogs to pout when they post our photos on Dog of The Week.
One would think that a law professor would Think! Yes, would Think about why a mug shot published in a newspaper is a travesty of justice and a slam on the indidual human beings’ right to be presumed innocent. Why is that girl smiling Professor?
Lets have a topic on the blog about newspapers that exploit children and other citizens by publishing their mugshots in a MugShot Section in the newsppaper. Are they doing the public some service? Is it fair to the person arrested? Lets get some photos of the Publisher of the local newspaper and make it into a Mug Shot, put some numbers on his shirt in the lower portion, and post it on the Web and in the outhouse. Print the photo on toilet paper and give it away and put it in the outhouse. Lets start with Joseph Pulitzer. In New York we could do Bloomberg or Iceberg or whatever his name is. Lets get photos from the school yearbook of the publisher’s kid and make them into faux Mug Shots and post them on the Web as if Publisher Junior got busted. All is fair in journalism.
Oh, Why cant the kid smile?
Yes. Americans are taught everyday by example as to how they should pose when the cops take their photograph. Pose like the other schmucks who are in the Mug Shot section of the newspaper every day. We are a nation of sheep. Flip em the Herbie if ya can. Anyone from Saint Louis who is older than fifty knows what the Herbie is. Howdy Doody Show on Channel 5 circa 1962:
“Hi mom, hi dad, hi everybody. And this is for you Herbie.” [flips the bird]
Thereafter, “Flipping the Herbie” was the same as saying Flipping The Bird.
The kid who flipped the Herbie was not falling into the televised version of mug shots for mom on the Howdy Doody Show.
The girl in the photo has got one up on the other chumps. No one can take that photo and show it to others, unless its in the local newspaper, and say that it was a Mug Shot. And while you are at it Herbie, lets boycott the local newspaper. We can get our news elsewhere. They exploit children for money by showing those mugshots.
If you are not drunk, not drinking, not in possession, then you are not guilty. If you are not guilty, you should not be contrite, look forelorn, or look drunk. The igPays want to market the Mug Shots to the local newspaper for the daily fodder. Why be a victim and look contrite? Smile and deny that the photo was even a Mug Shot. Why do you question the child’s right to have her photo taken the way she wants to appear? Are you so lame that you fall into the igPay Way? AmeriKa does not need the igPay Way. After a previous topic above about Apple we are wondering here at the dogpac about jt. That is lower case. And put up a more recent mug shot for the blog, you look older on tv.
That’s just a typical police lineup to find the smiling bandit. The cops left out the goose and the ice box. (See Pryor, Richard on SNL).
Maybe she was not drinking….. Or…. She was dreaming up a story to tell daddy how it really happened….
She’s giggling at the insane American drinking age. None of those depicted are legal minors.
You have to feel sorry for all the teens: What else is there to do in Signal Mountain, TN?
I don’t get the smiling mug shot. That roach Congressman from Texas was the first one I saw do it. I guess it is an attempt to show no fear.
I think a lot of folks try to make whacky faces because they think the mug shot will be so bad they won’t be recognizable.
She’s just sweet. This guy? This guy is the one they aren’t reaching . . .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/cabrone-brewer-mugshot_n_3231053.html
I’ll have what she was drinking please.
LOL, it’s not everyday a girl gets arrested. My guess would be, after years of being told to say cheese for the camera, she just did what came naturally.
She’s the only one that did not have a hangover.