Garnet's Wiki Blog from Aug 21, 2008

Too bad for Tom Biscardi and Searching For Bigfoot. Opportunists in Georgia tried anything to get their Bigfoot tracking wilderness expedition business going, including a flashy website, spoof videos on youtube, and more. But nothing got attention like freezing an alleged body in a freezer. They got an advance out of Biscardi and demanded that a press conference be quickly held. Only after the press conference, and a couple of days of thawing, did Biscardi get close enough to the object to discover it was a costume. Matthew Whitton (a Clayton County Georgia sheriff deputy on disability) and Rick Dyer (all kinds of different occupations alleged) have disappeared. I am worried that a police officer would be involved in such a fraud, but I'm sure a lot of people know policemen who don't mind getting involved with fraud.

Some pundits congratulated Biscardi on achieving a new level of popularity for the story. Previous stories have generated about 200 news stories maximum, but this finding, and press conference, appear to have generated at least 1000 news stories.

• What they are saying about the Rickmat Georgia Bigfoot Hoax of 2008

The title should be: Take a picture of the police breaking the law, go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars

Man Jailed After Taking Photo of Police Van Ignoring 'Wrong Way' Sign

• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407005,00.html

A British man Andrew Carter, of Bedminster Bristol, was jailed for five hours after he photographed a cop reversing the wrong way up a one-way street.

After Carter snapped the picture of the cop van, he got a chance to see the inside. Officer Aqil Farooq leaped out, hit the camera to the ground, handcuffed him and bundled him into the back of the vehicle.

• Farooq... Is that a last name typical of an imigrant from an islamic country?

Farooq claimed that Carter was drunk and resisted arrest and assaulted the officer with the camera.

• In the U.S., they not only take away your camera when entering the immigration and naturalization service office, they take away any recording devices too. Wouldn't want you to assault them by making a record of them that they can't deny later.

Carter, of Bedminster, Bristol, said: "I was nearly knocked down there once so when the police van went the wrong way I sort of said, 'Hey mate. no entry'. But he just shouted out of the window, '(expletive) off — this is police business'. "It was very frightening. All I had done was photograph these police officers doing something illegal, but I was the one who ended up being arrested."

• Perhaps Farooq has been around long enough to learn slang. Wonder what the important police business was that it could stand being interrupted to hassle Carter?

Farooq apologized at a disciplinary hearing.

Rob Beckley, Deputy Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police, has written to Carter saying: "I would like to add my apologies. We expect the highest standards and PC Farooq fell below what was required. His colleagues feel he let us down and he has learnt a difficult lesson. He realizes his actions were totally unacceptable and he could and should have apologized to you much earlier."

• Aww, isn't that special? And would you like some crumpets with your tea?

• More about Aqil Farooq - Black Muslim British Policeman who arrests people who take a picture of him breaking laws

I love spotting policemen who are driving who don't bother to buckle up. I let them know I noticed. Generally they buckle up, and ocassionally they say thank you, and in Georgia they try to sell you a Bigfoot costume frozen in ice....

Other similar stories:

• http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2008/06/cops-bully-vide.html

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