In this story at the N&O, Sarah Ovaska puts a slightly different spin on things. From her article it sounds like Hamlett Associates isn’t the bad guy. Apparently, some overzealous pig named K.L. Everett spotted the dangerous menace to society lurking on Hillsborough Street with his keen piggy eyes and had it dismantled and hauled away for investigation. OK, it probably didn’t happen that way since cops can’t do anything but write tickets on their own. He probably called his sargeant who called whatever fake military rank they use above that to indicate that this pig has a bigger dick than the other one. Then there was some kind of task force convened and so on until the swat team came down to take it apart.

Daniel Hall, the project manager for Hamlett Associates, claims he told Everett they weren’t interested in pressing charges and would like the monster back. So doesn’t that mean that RPD in the person of K.L. Everett really stole the barrels? Now, I’ll grant you that it’s possible that Hamlett Associates is spinning this story once word got out (Isn’t the internet a wonderful thing) but most of these projects are either Time and Materials or Cost Plus billing. Either way, it’s likely that Hamlett would have passed on the cost of the barrels to the State. I’m much more willing to believe that some joyless assholes overstepped their bounds in their quest for a world without sin or danger or variation from the norm.

This is what happens when you give people who grew up wanting to be bullies but didn’t have the balls guns and the authority of The State to back them up. One day we’ll be coming for you motherfuckers. And my smiling face will be one of the last things you see when we blindfold you in front of the ditch.

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   Whoever the jerk is that wrote this tripe is by himself a danger to society. Sounds like a twelve year old juvenile delinquent. It’s to be hoped that he never gets any power over anybody or anything. It’s to be hoped he never has any offspring. It’s about him that was written “His mother’s womb had a tongue that lapped up mud”.

   Comment by Robert Lee — June 8, 2010 @ 9:02 pm

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   Sorry I missed this for so long. I wrote the original and approved your reply because in my world I think people should be able to express their views. Even when it’s on my blog and for some reason you felt like it was necessary to bring my mother into it.

   I don’t like cops. Most of the ones I’ve met are pussies who were too afraid to be bullies in high school so they went to cop school and got a badge and gun so they can kill innocent people who are face down on a train platform like Johannes Mehserle did to Oscar Grant in Oakland. His only mistake was that he got caught on camera by a bunch of bystanders. Had he not, his thuggish pals would have concocted some story about Grant “resisting” or “making furtive movements”. Revolution’s coming, pal

   Comment by Jim — July 9, 2010 @ 4:58 pm

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