Aleph Ersatz

I have now been approached by the police a total of two times in cases where I fit the description of a wanted felon.

The first time was a few months ago at the imfamous Surrey Central Station bus loop, where I was approached by a police officer during the middle of the day.  (This was well before the Translink RCMP branch exisited.)  Basically, they asked me for ID, question me about some basic things – where I was coming from, where I was going, where do I live, etc — and followed standard  prcedure.  The best part was when the officer holding my license turned to his partner and showed him my ID, exlaiming: “Looks an auful lot like him, doesn’t he!”  It was kinda odd, but rather reassuring to hear that from the officer.  I was let go after maybe 5 minutes of questions and what not.

The second time was around 11 pm at night, and I’d just gotten off the bus after a long day at work.  The bus stop is a mere 5 minutes from my house and is right infront of the now-defunct Delta Community Police station.  This, ironically enough, is where the cop “pulled” me over.  (I was on foot.)  I was standing at the corner of the street when the ghost car stops in front of me.  I waited to let him go, but instead he does a U-turn in the intersection, flips on the lights and pulls me and another guy over.  Now both of us had just gotten off the bus, and I’d done this before, so I knew we were fine.  But, we get pulled over anyways.

The cop was nice enough to move us under the cover, right infront of the defunct station, and ask us for ID.  This time, though, the cop acually ran our names through dispatch to check on us, (yay?), then the usual questions and we were on our way.

The funny part was is the kid I was pulled over with told me that he just came back from a graduation party.  (I assume he just finished high school judging from his looks.)  So, he was drunk (although speaking clearly) and had a pocket full of weed.  It was damn funny, considdering he was “shitting his pants” while I was rather calmly being checked by the police.

All this has led me to assume I just happen to look like trouble.  I wonder if I should get a new ID just in case I get checked again sometime soon.

While randomly flipping through channels the other night, I ended up in the middle of a clip from the stupid send-in-your-dumb-home-videos show; Real TV.  Usually I watch that for about 30 seconds, then change channel quickly, but this time I was actualy aghast at what I saw.

I entered into the middle of a video that was recoreded from a security camera at some club or business.  What it showed was one guy being hunted down, shot and killed in a room full of pool tables.  The narrator explained that the video, which repeated and zoomed-in on the shots to the victims head, that this was evidence tap for a murder in which the shooter was convicted.  Finding that randomly on TV was absolutely stunning and actually shocking.

I mean, I’ve seen Faces of Death, Rotten, Afganistan and Iraq War Crimes evidence videos, and PETA videos about the Asian fur traders, so I have seen real deaths and horific video images.  Most of the aforementioned were quite disturbing, but when I saw them I was expecting the worse and I had warning about what I was going to see.  This was just out of the blue, WHAM real life murder right in front of my face.  On prime time before 10 pm!  Is human life so worthless that it is only worth a 5 minute segment on a crappy show just so they can get some ratings??

Worst of all, at the end, when the narrator was on camera again, his line was: “Okay, you can bring the kids back into the room now.”  I’m sorry, but you showed a fucking real murder and expect people to just shoo their kids out of the room, watch it, then ignore it like it was nothing?  Perfect example of absolutely disgustingly desenstized the American TV programs expect their audience to be.

And yes, the convicted murderer was apprently appealing the verdict after trying to claim the shooting was self defence.  (It’s coming right for us!)

“Okay, so you’ve had this blog running since May, now when are you going to stop linking YouTube videos and post some content?”  I asked myself.  My harsh tone conveying that my subconsious had finally gotten away from my adept procrastination and was ready to kick me in the mental balls for being such a slacker.

Truthfully, there’s two reasons I rarely post.  One, I don’t usually have access to a computer I can use.  I won’t “blog” from work, and my wife is usually on the computer these days.  Two, by time I get home, and get the computer finally, I’m too tired to try and type coherently, and even less inclined to come up with something worth writing.

However, I have some time tonight, I may as well use it…

The Sons of Butcher are not amazingly talented, and their show pretty much sucks.  However, if they should be remembered for one thing, it should be this:

(Well, maybe not remebered, but included as a footnote somewhere…)

Comes in 4, 10-minute parts:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecuW1uCi5U8

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xld0vsX9ynM

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMLuSt6RciU

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZi2rNwStvk