They say no good deed goes unpunished, and if that doesn’t hold true for Christian Phillips of Watauga, Texas, then I don’t know what does, folks. Phillips delivered bundles of cookies to a local police department. Somebody said they smelled like marijuana, and suddenly the poor kid’s being held for attempting to drug the cops. Now, they said it smelled like marijuana, but they suspected the goodies were laced with LSD – something tells me there wasn’t quite a well-developed thought process leading throughout this entire process and investigation. Why, you ask? Well, for one – there were no drugs in the cookies to begin with. This story reaches new heights of stupidity not just because of the strange reaction to the gift by the police, but the media crucified the kid, who was condemned on every major network. It’s the Nancy Grace effect, which also is reported to cause a rather nasty rash. Neil Cavuto about that – the swelling never goes down.

Stupid Level – 7 – The cops overreacted, and the media blew the story up out of proportion and probably wrecked this nice kid’s life, so shame on them all for what they did to Christian Phillips.

Here’s a story that’s not only terrifying with its 1984 overtones, if this goes through, it will be the deathblow to the airlines. The Department of Homeland Security, in its unending quest to protect us and keep us crapping our pants in the name of their political masters, is interested in forcing all airline passengers to wear taser “safety” bracelets, that would allow an air marshal to deliver an electric shock to a rowdy passenger. Oh, and it has a GPS that would allow the government to track every one of your steps from the airline desk to your final destination. Even worse, it would contain private, personal information that could quite easily be harvested by some malicious person. Even better, it’s also advertised with practical uses in interrogation; hey, the current administration made torture legal, why not just go with the flow? That’s what Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc., the creators of this evil little device, are doing Honestly, you think the jerk with the latex glove ready to shove his hand up your backside won’t be eager to shock you at the slightest provocation, like looking at him? . If poor service, less accommodations, long waits, invasive searches, higher ticket prices, fat taxes, bag check fees at every doorway, rusty old planes, and callous contempt the airlines have for customers wouldn’t kill the industry, then a government mandated doggie shock-collar would certainly finish off this mode of travel in America. Then we can all get gouged at the gas pump as we drive everywhere.

Stupid Level – 10 – Not only is this a terrifying possibility, it would spell the end of an entire industry. The government is simply going too far in the name of safety; this is just a way to control us all. If our people just accept this and take their electro-shocks with a dim-witted, “I feel safer” smile, then the 10 goes to us.

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1. 
   Shawn M.
   July 11, 2008 at 3:30 pm

   “Phillips had told detectives a friend of his might have been smoking pot while he was baking, and he denied contaminating the goodies or trying to harm anyone, McGuire has said.” — from the news article.

   And the cops found drug paraphernalia in the kid’s car. So, he might have been unfairly deemed guilty in the media’s eyes, but he wasn’t Little Johnny Sunshine, either. I think the kid deserves the stupid tag in this story, and the cops were entirely justified.

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