the Oakland Police Bulletin Miss
Carnivorous
Reading the Oakland Police Bulletin of 1915 has given me a whole
new outlook!
There were no good old days. The vast majority of warrants issued were
for men accused of "failure to provide." men who failed top provide usually
received a sentence of three years probation.
A warrant was issued for a rapist who lived in one of the cottages in my
court in 1917. Rapes received sentences of four months.
Car theft was rampant, people were stealing model T Ford cars like crazy.
A lot of people were passing bad checks and committing fraud. One check passer
had a twitchy eye and claimed to be a dentist. Embezzlement was common.
Bunco, aka grand larceny was very common as was petit larceny and
burglary. Assault with a deadly weapon was fairly uncommon. Robbery was very
common indeed.
Women went missing and were arrested for adultery. Some of the criminals
were described as having "a lot of gold teeth"! If suspect were good looking,
they stated it in the warrant descriptions. As was being a "hard drinker," a
"fast talker" and "walks fast." And being a "peddler of hams and bacon."
The addresses of supspects mothers were often given out in the warrants.
A "half negro" was described as "looking like a Mexican."
Men were known to hang around, "cafes" and "some garage." One cross eyed
guy, who passed ficticious checks, like to hang around "Chinese saloons."
A lot of bicycles went missing in one month and one guy was known to have
stolen a lot of them. Enough so that a picture of him was posted that "was
thought to be a good likeness."
Murder was small portion of the crimes but did happen, every few months
or so.
Arson was common. Lewd and lascivious acts happened once in a while. Some
men were accused of "seduction."
A woman was acused of child stealing.
Police officers were suspended pretty often, sometimes for going awol.
Many officers were suspended because they would not come in after a day off and
would not notify their supervisors of their absences or whereabouts. One
officer's supension was supspended after he single handedly stopped a team of
runaway horses. This seems suspicious to me.
Scavenger collectors were told, by City ordinance, that they had to keep
their garbage wagons covered so trash did not fall out on the streets.
The City at some point realized it could make a lot of money by forcing
people to license their dogs. The police Chief notice the enhanced revenue one
month and the lack of the revenue in subsequent months and sent out a notice to
the beat police telling them to step up the ticketing of non-licensing dog
owners.
Notice from Oakland
Police Bulletin 1915-1917 regarding homeland security
General Order
Oakland, Cal., Apr. 3rd,1917
To all members of the Police Department:
It will be apparent to all the members of this Department that at the
present time the welfare of the country may be endangered by the acts of cranks
or German sympathizers.
It is my desire that everything that can be done by you with a view of
ascertaining any facts, concerning the activity of any person or persons
sympathizing with the enemies of the United States, be reported to this office.
You will diligently observe any place in your particular beat or district where
the persons of suspicious character may meet. You will watch all telegraph
manholes, pipe lines, electric lines, gas plants, maufacturing shops and
buildings, places where powder or dynamite are stored and do everything in your
power as a loyal American citizen to observe and report such cases in a manner
that will reflect credit on those who have a high regard for the nation in its
present crisis.
You will be expected to be more diligent than usual and to conduct
yourself in a manner that will maintain the peace and quiet of the City of
Oakland in particular and the nation at large.
Respectfully,
W.J. Peterson,
Chief of Police
Miss Carnivorous
The adventures of
Miss
Carnivorous
wonderlegs
in Crackerlandia.
My
Grandma once said to me, "You're nasty, you're nasty all the time".
I am not a racist, I am a conservative.
Weedee peepo.
U dee man.
U asleepo?
Wee u scam!
American slang by
Carniv
Ass. Til this point he
couldn't get his face out of the Sunni's
ass cracks long enough to see the light.
Bum. Oakland Police
Bulletin of 1915-1917
In the early 1900's they referred
to homeless drunks as "wine bums."
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The Frenchies are doing what?
staghounds
& Miss Carnivorous
No kidding, a friend of mine in the rural south west of England
got a visit from a (very embarrassed) police officer with a ticket for
illegally disposing of a dead horse.
Friend had buried the horse on his own property, which one is not
supposed to do without some sort of permission.
Friend asked the policeman how they knew, officer said "I can't tell
you that. But you did it on a sunny day", and pointed up.
The Frenchies are doing what?
"France plans to triple its arsenal of surveillance cameras from
340,000 to 1 million. Plans: 1) 6,500 networked cameras in the Paris transit
system. 2) Connecting other cities' cameras to police control rooms. 3) Aerial
surveillance drones. Rationales: 1) Fighting terrorism. 2) Fighting crime and
gangs. 3) Monitoring riots. 4) We want to be more like Britain, which is
thwarting terrorists with lots of cameras. Objections: 1) What about liberte?
2) The government is sending "flying robots" over our cities so it won't have
to supply enough cops."
SPARKY
I
call him Sparky, because he was an electrician in the Navy and he calls me
Ray, for Ray Charles, because I wear sunglasses all the time. Talking about
the shooting of the young lady I said, "It was a Mongolian girl. There's a
small but visible population of Mongolians who have moved into the East Bay
Area in the last few years."
"Really?" Sparky asked." I just assumed it was a Black girl who had been shot
by other Blacks."
" You racist! I replied. "No, I said, for a change, it was Asians shooting at
Asians.'
October 23, 2007
Muslims kicking
more European ass!
They deserve it for being
such pussies.
I'd like to see these
Muslim punks come here and try to burn American cars. Americans love their
cars.
Miss
Carnivorous
August
07, 2007
The sign next to Miss C's front door
August 01, 2007
Every day is a holiday for the
homeless!
Yesterday on the local news they continued an investigation into the homeless
encampments in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. They
interviewed a charming drunk, who
said "I could get a room in the city but I just love it here."
Therein lies the problem. Homeless men lie around all day in public parks,
drinking and partying like a bunch of college frat boys who never grew up.
Most people have to work for a living and get to go camping and sleep under
the stars in public parks only once or twice a year. We have to pay for the
privilege of doing so.
As far as I am concerned, they should sweep up the homeless and put them on
chain gangs and put their lazy no-good asses to work.
RN squatter city
Sunday, February 17,
2008
Back to the 19th century
On Thursday, Feb. 14, police descended on the Kennedy Road Settlement in Durban
and began ripping out electrical hookups. They ripped out pirated service, and
they ripped out legal service. They dug up wires that had been run underground.
Kennedy Road is one of the shack settlements that is part of Abahlali
baseMjondolo, a squatter organizing group which has been battling with the
Durban municipality for some time now. Its members have been arrested,
imprisoned, harassed, and hurt. Now, with no advance warning, the municipality
is attempting drive squatters back to the squalor in which the poor lived two
centuries ago.
Welcome to the new South Africa!
As Abahlali said in a statement, "Electricity is not a luxury. It is a basic
right. It is essential for children to do their homework; for safe cooking and
heating; for people to charge phones, to be able participate in the national
debate through electronic communication (TV discussion programmes, email etc);
for lighting to keep women safe and, most of all, to stop the fires that
terrorise us....Why is the government sending the police to force us to go
backwards? Development was supposed to be about moving forwards."
RN
squatter city
Miss Carnivorous
Chip on shoulder racist
Funny
stuff
Saturday
right-wing co-worker and I went to a new Bed Bath and Beyond store. After we
picked out a few items for purchase, we were standing at a check-out
register, when a Black kid from a group of about 4 teenagers saw one of
these Grow a Head, figurines and took offense. He was remarking to his
friends about, "How racist," it was. He was clearly agitated. Then he walked
up to the register we were at and said to the checkout clerk, very politely,
"Excuse me sir, but I think this is racist."
Checkout
clerk replied, "Thank you," in a choked voice.
The kid
plopped the figure, on the counter, in front of us, and left.Co-worker said,
"Well at least he is thinking."
I picked
up the strange thing and began to giggle. "It is kind of racist," I
said. Then co-worker and I began to laugh. (We'd had a few margaritas) The
Clerk, of course could not join in our merriment, as he would have gotten in
trouble. The clerks at this new store are very customer service oriented.
The clerk appeared very uncomfortable and was happy to see the back of the
kid and us.
I think
the kid had possibly had a class at school wherein the teacher had shown him
depictions of racist Black memorabilia which he, quite naturally, I think,
associated with this very odd Grow a Head.
Miss Carnivorous
Short Stories
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Pet rat
Miss Carnivorous
My sister Alexis's first apartment was in a really bad neighborhood. She
lived a few yards away from some projects.
She had a pet rat. The kids from the projects would come and knock on her
door every day.
" 'Lexis, 'lexis, they would say excitedly, when she answered the door. Can
we see yo' pet rat??"
My sister would let them in and they would stare at Nedra the rat as she
climbed around in her habitrail.
"Aghhh.... EEE-UUUUW.... they would all scream and giggle. EEEEKKK.....
Aghhhhh....... Then they'd run away, but they would come right back the very
next day.
Nedra the rat died. My sister got another rat, but it was not the same as
Nedra. One day she showed up at my job with the rat in a box.
"What is that?" I asked. She told me to give it to my ex to feed to his
snake.
Miss Carnivorous
RN squatter city
Sunday, February 17,
2008
Back to the 19th century
On Thursday, Feb. 14, police descended on the Kennedy Road Settlement in Durban
and began ripping out electrical hookups. They ripped out pirated service, and
they ripped out legal service. They dug up wires that had been run underground.
Kennedy Road is one of the shack settlements that is part of Abahlali
baseMjondolo, a squatter organizing group which has been battling with the
Durban municipality for some time now. Its members have been arrested,
imprisoned, harassed, and hurt. Now, with no advance warning, the municipality
is attempting drive squatters back to the squalor in which the poor lived two
centuries ago.
Welcome to the new South Africa!
As Abahlali said in a statement, "Electricity is not a luxury. It is a basic
right. It is essential for children to do their homework; for safe cooking and
heating; for people to charge phones, to be able participate in the national
debate through electronic communication (TV discussion programmes, email etc);
for lighting to keep women safe and, most of all, to stop the fires that
terrorise us....Why is the government sending the police to force us to go
backwards? Development was supposed to be about moving forwards."
RN
squatter city
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