The banality of evil Part III: not obeying common sense should be criminal negligence
Old women will do the strangest things to help their sons get out of a traffic ticket, including faking a serious heart condition that they later pretend to die from...
MEMPHIS, TN (AP) - A Memphis man who was driving his 83 year-old mother to a hospital says a Shelby County Sheriff's deputy stopped him for an expired tag and did little to help as his mother died in the back seat of his car.
Wayne Ables says during an early March 12, 2009 traffic stop, the deputy refused to follow Ables to Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett and write the ticket there.
The hospital was less than a mile away.
Instead, the deputy, whom the department has not identified, checked Ables' license and insurance while calling an ambulance.
What's that? She died before she got to the hospital because the power-tripping jerk had to show his authoriteh right there? Of course, the local police force will let him get away with this offense against common sense and decency because he cannot be expected to behave with either of those things. Yet another lesson in how most evil is actually incredibly banal. The cop likely caused this woman to die--all because he couldn't be bothered to follow the man to the hospital and wait to ticket him after the hospital staff had taken the woman into the emergency room.
If this is the level of judgment that this officer uses while in uniform, it's clear they shouldn't be trusted with anything more dangerous than janitorial duties at the station.
How is it that "civilians" need permits to conceal and carry, and any idiot with a costume and a badge is given run of the town with a car, a firearm, and the presumption of lawful behavior without incontrovertible evidence to the contrary?
In his defense, The woman was 83 and was probably going to die anyway. He saved that man thousands of dollars worth of futile hospital expenses. In just a few years, she would have been on the national "do not treat" list. The Cop is ahead of teh surve on that one.