DGS49
Diamond Member
True Story: An illegal Guatemalan immigrant who speaks no English is accosted outside his local supermarket by a tawdry-dressed young woman. She speaks rapidly to the man making gestures toward her mouth, and nodding her head and smiling as he continues into the store. He believes she is indicating she is hungry and when he comes out she accosts him again. He gives her his change - about five bucks - to presumably buy herself some food.
He is immediately surrounded by a posse of uniformed and plain-clothes cops, who drag him off to the local police station, charged with soliciting prostitution. The conversation he mis-took as a request for food money, was presumably an offer for oral sex.
Five dollars and some loose change. Oral sex. Hmmmmm. I confess that I am not personally knowledgeable about the "going rate" for a blowjob, but at $5, I might be in the market. Or maybe $5 is a preposterous amount, as this vice cop surely knew.
The local Public Defender has no one on staff who understands Spanish, and the Accused cannot converse in English, so a stray bi-lingual person is located in the courthouse, whereupon it comes out that this was a misunderstanding. The DA offers, in exchange for a misdemeanor guilty plea, a fine of $100. The Accused refuses, indignant that he should be found guilty of anything, when all he was doing was offering a random person some money for food.
The local ACLU chapter is consulted, and it is strongly recommended that the Accused take the plea, pay the money, and do his utmost to have no more dealings with the constabulary. No good. He refuses to plead guilty, and his case is pending.
On further investigation, it turns out that this particular vice cop has arrested dozens of Hispanic, non-English speaking men for exactly the same "crime" over the last couple years. Have you ever heard of "Profiling"? Have you heard recently of any more absurd and counterproductive deployments of municipal resources?
"Fortunately," the local municipality has declared itself a "Sanctuary City," so there is no imminent danger this Guatemalan gentlemen will be deported, but one never knows. He supports himself as a drywall installer in the local residential construction market. Under the table, of course.
You could write a book.
He is immediately surrounded by a posse of uniformed and plain-clothes cops, who drag him off to the local police station, charged with soliciting prostitution. The conversation he mis-took as a request for food money, was presumably an offer for oral sex.
Five dollars and some loose change. Oral sex. Hmmmmm. I confess that I am not personally knowledgeable about the "going rate" for a blowjob, but at $5, I might be in the market. Or maybe $5 is a preposterous amount, as this vice cop surely knew.
The local Public Defender has no one on staff who understands Spanish, and the Accused cannot converse in English, so a stray bi-lingual person is located in the courthouse, whereupon it comes out that this was a misunderstanding. The DA offers, in exchange for a misdemeanor guilty plea, a fine of $100. The Accused refuses, indignant that he should be found guilty of anything, when all he was doing was offering a random person some money for food.
The local ACLU chapter is consulted, and it is strongly recommended that the Accused take the plea, pay the money, and do his utmost to have no more dealings with the constabulary. No good. He refuses to plead guilty, and his case is pending.
On further investigation, it turns out that this particular vice cop has arrested dozens of Hispanic, non-English speaking men for exactly the same "crime" over the last couple years. Have you ever heard of "Profiling"? Have you heard recently of any more absurd and counterproductive deployments of municipal resources?
"Fortunately," the local municipality has declared itself a "Sanctuary City," so there is no imminent danger this Guatemalan gentlemen will be deported, but one never knows. He supports himself as a drywall installer in the local residential construction market. Under the table, of course.
You could write a book.