the newest thing that stupid douchebags love doing -- tossing footballs across busy and crowded city streets

Douchebags like doing all kinds of different, stupid things. You shouldn't pigeonhole them like this.

Also: this is about as new as fondue.

maybe it isn't new, but i really hadn't seen anyone doing this before.

Douchebags have all the fun.

Tossing a douchebag across the street would certainly be worse. You'd never be more happy to see one of those windshield washer guys.

anthony baez to thread.

you know techinically I don;t think douchebag is that insulting. all a douchebag is going to hold is sterile/clean water. it's not even going to touch anything!

I have the slight misfortune of living near a bunch of Columbia frathouses, and between those guys and the firemen across the street there is nearly always somebody throwing some sort of ball around in front of my building. It's really genuinely ridiculous, and seems to be done mostly to let everyone know how spontaneous and carefree the participants are about, I dunno, blocking traffic.

So it doesn't collect the backwash then? I must say I was never too clear on the term. (see Why is "Douchebag" the insult of choice lately/still ?)

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well at least its not happyslapping!

x-post - no it doesn't.

to explain my tasteless joke, eisbar perhaps you should rethink the cop thing:

Iris Baez: a mother's cause against brutality

By Roberto García and Alberto Rivera

BRONX, N.Y. - Walking in the Bronx toward the home of anti-police brutality activist Iris Baez, you feel a chill when you pass the place where Baez' son, Anthony, met his death at the hands of a New York City police officer on Dec. 22, 1994.

In response to the murder of her son, Baez led a grass-roots campaign to bring his killer to justice. She brought together other mothers of children murdered by police to form Community and Parents Against Police Violence.

For Baez, the pain remains and has been channeled into a grass-roots campaign, through the Anthony Baez Foundation, to educate young people about their constitutional rights.

She devotes her time to educating schoolchildren on the issue, distributing copies of the United States Constitution wherever she speaks.

Baez's own education on constitutional rights began when police officer Francis Livoti killed her son. "I didn't know much about the law; I was taking care of my children," she said in an interview with the World. "We learned after the murder of my son."

Anthony Baez, who was 29, and his brothers played football in front of the family house that deadly night. The ball hit Livoti's car, whereupon the officer immediately arrested Anthony's brother David and slammed his head into a jeep, knocking him to the ground.

When Anthony questioned this, the officer put Anthony, who suffered from asthma, in a chokehold until he was dead. Two of his brothers, meanwhile, were forced to the ground with guns pointed at their heads.

Iris Baez remembered that the Civilian Complaint Review Board did not make a case until forced to by community outrage. But Livoti was acquitted by a judge despite evidence of perjury by him and other cops.

This year, after a massive grassroots campaign led by Baez, Livoti was found guilty of violating Anthony Baez's civil rights and sentenced to 7 1/2 years in federal prison.

As to Livoti's fate, Iris Baez noted that he is living "the good life" in prison but has lost his pension. While justice has yet to be fully served, she noted, "Lo quien lo hace aquí, lo paga allá" (Whoever does it here, pays for it elsewhere). "God only gave us 10 commandments to keep. 'Thou shall not kill' is one of them," she added.

As to the attitudes of police, Baez offered an analogy: "When you see an animal in the street, you try to help. How can you not move when you see a human being?"

She remembers that the police did not even call for an ambulance when her son was murdered. In speaking on the moral corruption of the police, she said, "If it were one of us, we would be accomplices. If it would have turned out that my son was an accessory, he would have been facing death row."

In discussing her current work with schoolchildren, Baez points out the connection between police brutality and a system that miseducates children.

"By letting the schools run down, [the children] don't have to get educated, and they get blamed."

um, stence, i know the baez story. and should cops stop doing their legit stuff -- like stopping people from throwing footballs across busy city streets -- b/c of one douchebag cop?

let's not get sub-trifean here, please?

i'm saying cops have better things to do. and so do you.