Comments for Pooyie 05.05.10 at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 20 out of 20 comments http://www.theind.com Sun, 19 May 2013 17:25:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7571 """ TRUE BLUE ! You are a Tootsie Pop ! Thats a Sucker ! As, i always say, "it takes two fools to engage in an argument, CIAO....... Oh, you definitely display an absence of Anger Management Skills. You must be a "True Blue Cop......... - Northsidian Shotgun Wed, 12 May 2010 22:27:51 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7563 Northsidian Capgun, you sound like a prime candidate for the school crossing guard position, and with your 3rd grade education you would probably make a good one too. - True Blue Wed, 12 May 2010 14:40:56 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7549 True Blue, exactly which type of training have you undergone to receive your badge, " are you now a school crossing guard in true blue uniform ? - Northsidian Shotgun Tue, 11 May 2010 19:36:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7529 I do not know if thats what the officer's said, but I do know if someone is taking pictures theres no crime and an officer does not have the authority to stop someone from taking pictures and surely cant take the camera away, property can only be seized if the property was involved in a crime or evidence of a crime, and in this case there is no crime if she was simply taking pictures, but if she was told to leave for the officer's safety and she refused to do so, then thats probably why she was arrested, if the media is told to leave from any crime scene they most always will cooperate. - True Blue Mon, 10 May 2010 16:36:40 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7514 Blue- Since you seem to know so much about the incident, tell us. Did the officers say that she cannot photograph the police? If they did say that, is it true? - ragin_cajun Sun, 09 May 2010 05:27:54 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7513 Once again, "True Blue", I'm assuming you are an officer of the law according to your user name. Check your facts because, guess what? I am Dear Mother to whom you are referring, and she DID NOT put the "beat down" on me and I was NOT a victim. I don't know what you read, but that was not the case. The incidents that you wrote about happened a LONG time ago and are in no way related to what happened at the festival. I am proud of my daughter because she stands up for what she believes in and yes, she does have respect for the law. She was simply trying to get a story and ran into an overzealous officer with a BIG EGO! - D.Cobb Sat, 08 May 2010 22:35:19 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7505 D. Cobb why dont you check the public records at the parish jail, you will be surprised to find out she was arrested for Aggravated Battery, crime committed with dangerous weapon, and in her case her teeth were the weapon and her dear mother was the victim, she was also arrested for underage drinking at least 1 or 2 other alcohol related crimes, and its all public record not false information. So once again blame the police because D. Cobb and his young photographer friend have to respect for authority. - True Blue Sat, 08 May 2010 09:49:13 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7503 I recall a week in Lafayette when i actually witnessed, on five different occassions, at five different Bars/Clubs, five different city policeman, get their hinny royally kicked, and each time it was retribution for a beating a bar/club patron had received at the hands of three or four policemen, the odd fact is that not one policeman came out on top, all of these beatings were inflicted on off-duty policemen, and were truly deserved, for beating on drunks at prior times....... On one ocassion an offduty policeman was hitting and old high-school adversary with a baton while the poor guy was puking, all of a sudden after ten or so blows the puker straightened up erect,and proceeded to beat the mean out of the off-duty policimen.....This is not to demean anyone , just facts ! - Northsidian Shotgun Fri, 07 May 2010 23:04:40 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7501 "True Blue" doesn't know what he is talking about. He needs to get the correct information before he posts false information. I know for a fact that she DID NOT put the "beat down" on her own Mama! Also, she was NOT DRUNK on the night of the incident at the festival. Where is the breathalizer test huh?????????????? - D.Cobb Fri, 07 May 2010 22:10:08 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7499 Did the Independent bother to look in to this innocent photographer's past, I bet if someone did they would learn she has prior arrests for alcohol related offenses, and on incident she was sent to the slammer for putting a beat down on her own momma, probably was drunk that night too. The only thing wrong with this whole thing is that this 22 year old still does understand that in the real world people will be held responsible for his/her own actions and the police will always be there to make sure they are. - True Blue Fri, 07 May 2010 18:58:08 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7493 For such a "progressive community" like Lafayette, with its high "quality of life", to have such a poorly trained and unprofessional police force is a real shame. There have been WAY TOO MANY incidents like this with Lafayette Police Department, and they almost always happen downtown, too. Chief Craft, although a fine office with serious investigative skills, is obviously not the man for the job. He must condone, maybe even encourage, this kind of behavior in the officers under his command. Why else does this kind of stuff continue to happen? - ragin_cajun Fri, 07 May 2010 12:06:19 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7491 You know, what these guys are doing when they arrest people for taking pictures is TYRANNY! Why aren't these lard asses being brought before a judge for illegal detention? There were thousands of people at that festival who watched this happen. It's about time that people start to look after fellow citizens instead of the donut patrol that we have in this town. There is strength in numbers. It's time to put these cows back in the pin! - Shtine Fri, 07 May 2010 11:24:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7488 I think law enforcement needs a little lesson in the law. This is the second time this year that police have tried to prevent people from taking pictures of police activity in a public place: one at Mardi Gras where they tried to confiscate a cell phone camera as "evidence" and then telling Ms. Cook she could not take pictures of police. In both cases, the police were wrong. They can not confiscate items without a warrant unless it was used in a crime and cannot ban taking pictures in of police activity in a public place. I believe the officers are trying to misuse their authority as a police officer hoping people don't know the law. Please educate the law enforcers on the law. - Robert Walter Fri, 07 May 2010 08:01:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7487 Nickie Picard and his deputies have, on more than one occasion, acted in what could be described as over-zealous enforcement. I think there was an occasion a few years ago when they were involved in a high speed chase on our city streets in pursuit of some viscous criminal. Or was it just a bit of wild men with a badge and siren? Sometime the term gestapo may come into play. And then, there is the rumor that the marshal is grooming his son to take his place. Does the term nepotism come into play? But, then, we all know Nickie is just a good old boy. At least that is the image he portrays. - Gene Broussard Fri, 07 May 2010 03:52:07 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7483 The police department needs to educate their officers about freedom of the press! - D.Cobb Thu, 06 May 2010 19:51:10 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7482 PAS BON...I know how you media types get when a part of your team crosses paths with the law. You guys have the first word and I could understand wanting to help a member of the team, but Im gonna "wait" till boths sides of the story get equal coverage. COULLION...It sucks that peaples pets got killed.I dont know his side of the story but.. I dont know. Its doesnt sound good. - Blane Thibodeaux Thu, 06 May 2010 18:11:49 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7477 CHECK AND BALANCE, read my lips....look up the term, " Ad hominem........ Also, The wildlife and pet killa is not a commercial fisher-man, who is deriving his livelihood from his crawfish ponds, although it is his lawful right to protect his crop of crawfish,from predators,this case brings to mind the lafayette parish landowner who killed a teenager who was in his crawfish pond, there's a sign of madness to each of these cases, the first couillion who killed the teen being a prominent man "SKIPPED, this couillion being a local businessman, ( By no means a crawfisherman ) could possibility, "SKIP.........I guess, Mr. Check and Balance, If a child had ingested the poison, "you in your infinite wisdom, being deep in your Xanax stash, would say that the child was not being properly cared for by his parents....... Like i suggested, before you comment on an Indy article, Check your Balance, You Sir, are "Tottering! - HARDHAT Thu, 06 May 2010 11:56:59 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7471 On Pas Bon, please, print Officer Broussard's version of events in the affidavit and Mrs. Cook's photos that are the evidence as you describe. Are we expected to believe TheInd's version of what happened? Let the reader be the judge. On Couillon, what if dogs went around and ate TheInd papers in newsstands across town, and dogs went around eating up criminals and spitting out law abiding citizens. Your way and LDWF Sgt. Chris Carpenter's way of earning a living, i.e., feeding your kids, paying a mortgage, using your cell phone (i could go on), would be in jeopardy. It's all perspective. I bet crawfisherman Richard Doucet, and his lawyer, will argue he was protecting his way of earning a living ... protecting his family. It's sad that some child's pet was killed. Yet, the dogs wouldn't have been poisoned if the owners had properly cared for their pets, and the neighbors might be enjoying the low price of select boiled crawfish this weekend, maybe even with Mr. Doucet. - Check and Balance Thu, 06 May 2010 06:51:56 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7469 Yeah and the other Couillion, Barney with the badge broke his maidenhead and busted his first criminal, charged her with being in the line of fire tween a 14 carat puredee Couillion, and his lunch...... Really, what crime did Cook commit, she did'nt take that Chubbylinks Broussard Hotdog. EH ? Now Broussard would'nt be a close kin of Marshall Picard'S ? I'snt there a weight limit for lawmen, I don't think chubby could pick em up and put em down very far............ - Good Time Charlie Wed, 05 May 2010 21:50:14 +0100 http://www.theind.com/pooyie/6172-pooyie-050510#comment-7457 Indy, you seem to have flipped-Flopped the second and third articles in the Pooyie Column, or am i correct in thinking you were swamped with couillion activity when you wrote the column ? Yessir,the Couillion with the poison has a knack of running afoul of the law.............A very colorful, "Enfamous Individual. - Exestentialist Man Wed, 05 May 2010 02:55:06 +0100