Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Return of the seat belt saga & The Pig Stop

Talking about police and doughnuts. We have a place here called Police Doughnuts. He has it looking like a Police station from the outside and has a black and white van parked out front marked like a police car that he drives. He must be doing good. He makes one batch of doughnuts a day. He opens his doors at seven and when they are gone he goes home usually around 8:30. It turns out it is owned and ran by a retired state trooper who thought since police are associated so much with doughnuts it would be a good idea. It worked more power to him.

From: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sat, April 9, 2011 2:42:59 PM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Return of the seat belt saga & The Pig Stop

I just wished I could have shown the presecutor the photos of my unwashed azz sitting in the AMC seat with my 2 and 5 Houston Astros red shirt and red boxers on with no underwear and the lap belt hanging over my gut. Looked like a Charlie Sheen lap band surgery out the outside. I was surprised though that there was a prosecutor in the courtroom, I thought I would just have to present my AMC case directly to judge.

Not mentioned there was a cop sitting off to one side in jury area staring at everyone, he had a eyebrow that was all the way across like growing in a tribute to Brokke Shields of Leonid Brezhnev. When judge told him he was dismissed, he left. The problem I mentioned with judge judy giving someone tongue lashing was a young man, about 25-30, who had been in jail for tickets. She had told him she would not give him a discount, or 'credit' since he had no proof he HAD been in jail. Well, the cop that was there was for this particular incident. She had dismissed this cop because the guy with tickets had told prosecutor earlier something that caused prosecutor to tell judge to let cop go back to work being McGruff instead of testifying in this guy's case! The judge flailed her arms several times while admonishing this guy for whatever he said earlier telling him 'I can't get the cop to come back as he is gone now and he was here only for YOUR case!!!' so she was not pizzed, just really miffed at whatever this 5-ticket-guy told prosecutor who then told judge to tell cop to go home or at least follow wafting smeel of freshly baked donuts on Washington 2 blocks over.

Speaking of calling cops pigs......a few years ago the famous Pig Stand.....only a few blocks from the nest of cops on Lufkin avenue closed down, there used to be two Pig stops in San Antonio, and there was one Pig Stop in Houston. Awesome food, but like many places, ran into hard times when economy went pig belly up. And it was no coincendence on the name Pig Stop and was ALWAYS full of cops who not only had sense of humor, but also loved greasy food, great breakfasts, wonderful service by people who appreciated the men in blue and well, a never ending cup of coffee:

http://www.flickrcom/photos/glasgows/109087397/

I passed by Pig Stop on way home from lawville, the 72 Ambassador SST wagon's duals shaking the ground, and the place is something else now. More photos, not mine:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pig%20stand%20houston&w=all

Eddie Stakes
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com

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From: henry williams

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Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 10:33 AM

Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Return of the seat belt saga

you should start a book or document this stuff on film you could have the next reallity show i would watch it
--- On Fri, 4/8/11, Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Return of the seat belt saga
To: baadassGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 9:09 PM

A few months ago ya'll remember I got a ticket in a Houston Police 'seat belt detail'
sting. The ticckets were for no insurance and failure to wear seat belt. A number of
people weighed in for and against seat belts and I promised to let everyone know how it
turned out.

I asked for a judge trial, not jury, just judge. I had to go to Municipal Court (Harris
County, Houston, Texas) March 28th. I was loaded for bear on this one. Rather pissed off
about whole deal as while Houston Police were standing around giving out pre-filled-out
seat belt tickets....two blocks away the Randall's store's Wells Fargo bank was being held
up.....and the guys got away, they dropped a bag of cash in parking lot (of all days for
me not to be shopping there darn it) but here is 10-20 cops standing under I-10 bridge
giving out tickets to policeman's ball. I'm a big fan of police and have done many, many,
benefits for cops thru the years at clubs I have managed or worked at. But what a waste of
time with seat belts.

If you want to do some detail, stop the carnage in Harris County...we are #1 in the United
States in DWIs and DWI deaths due to drunken driving. I see it live going home from work,
people weaving, lanes blocked due to rollover, you name it, have seen it in 28 years, a
detail getting drunks off road would be more useful and bring in tons of money into city,
and county coffers in time when some precincts are laying off cops due to budget
shortfalls, go figure. Side note a Conroe cop just was shot in face by guy the other day,
here is video, :
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=8057862
they killed the SOB, but the cop, who at least is out of hospital and has sense of humor,
is going to be ok, but they had to remove his right eye.

So back to seat belts. I came home that day after getting donuts for Noah & Jacob who were
watching Spongebob, Patrick, Mr Crabs, and Squidward on the tv. The cop walked up to me,
asked for license and insurance, I had license but not insurance card with me, hell I
didn't even have underwear on and as many of you know, rarely wear shoes.

So came home, had Noah take photos of me sitting in car, with 'lap' belt attached (cop
never looked down, he was going only by shoulder harness, I don't wear it) and took photos
of the seat belt superimposed on top of that morning's Houston Chronicle showing date (old
insurance dating trick).
I took photos of the car also. And went inside, got my policy, and hung in office, later
that night got photos developed online at Walgreens, and tossed them in same envelope. And
forgot about it.

Onto March 28th court date. I put on my best pair of underwear that didn't have go pack
racing stripes (eh, you didn't need to know that but hope you already had supper) and
elastic and no holes. Big decision was to wear shoes, Paige said 'treat it like wedding or
parole hearing or church, sort of important' so put on nice shoes and socks. No AMC racing
Team shirt, used shirt with collar, Paige said I looked ready for a date. Driving down
I-10 I passed by the closed down Scoreboard Sports Bar near Silber, that made me sad, as
lots of great memories in the almost 11 years worked there. On the side of me is a big 18
wheeler with nothing on the side except "AMX" same font as the cars we love. That's a good
sign, it's gonna be a good night as Black Eye Peas say. Got down to courthouse there is no
more manned house, you just drive in, park, look at number on ground and pay $5 to mailbox
type thing punching in your number. Walked thru the metal detectors on first floor and cop
asked me about a 38 caliber bullet on my key chain, which has 31 keys. Can't carry keys in
pocket would tear hole in pocket, over pound of keys. I told them that would not pop if I
tossed it in bonfire so she laughed and let me go. I also told here good eyes as they
didn't catch that at Bush when I flew out 2 months earlier.

All rise for judge, oh sh*t she looks just like my ex girlfriend Tammy, I'm sunk. Lucky
for me she is leaving at 6:00pm, and I'm seeing judge at 6:30pm. So while I wait I look
around and count spit on floor. Someone carved in a pen*s into the wood pews in front of
me, how can they do that with all the cops, judge and presecutor in room, man, that takes
balls. But old courtroom, hell, even clock on wall missing hands, nice touch! Prosecutor's
name was Isaha, that is good bibical name, so things looking up..called my name and walked
up, sat down, and he said if I had insurance, yup, didn't even get to pull out policy and
he said 'I'm dismissing your case' and I said, 'aw, but I have photos' he said 'no that's
fine don't need them' and I said 'but my wife tired of looking at them' and he laughed and
told me to go sit to the left, many what a motley crew of people, one guy should have been
tossed in jail for his colonge I have smelled prettier urinal cakes. So walked up, bailiff
gave me two certifications of dismissal and I was gone, drove home and was only out $5 for
parking (I was there in court 22 minutes) and gas, about $5 more to drive there from west
Houston. Got to see beautiful sunset and was surprising not a lot of traffic on Interstate
10 westbound on a Friday about 7pm, got home, kids and Paige were sure I would spend the
night, but simply was a quick road trip over something stupid. I may add in the time I was
in courtroom, out of the 18 people there, 10 of them the charges were dismissed. One guy
got a lashing from judge while there, as he had 5 tickets and spent 12 hours in jail, but
didn't bring anything to court showing he had been in jail so she would not dismiss or
give him credit for time served. I never even got to face judge, just got to look at spit,
broken clock and someone's elaborate carving into the bench.
Eddie Stakes
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com