[ilbegone]

It's been a couple of years and I don't know all the details, but a Beaumont Police unit crashed into the doughnut shop at the corner of 6th street and Beaumont avenue in Beaumont, Ca.

It was closed down for quite some time, and the way it was boarded up I believe the unit made it at least halfway inside. It must of cost the city of Beaumont a ton of money to square that one away, self insured or not.

Could you imagine, getting your wake up cup of coffee in the wee hours of the morning and a cop car bursts through the wall. You might get your wake up and possibly piss your pants without the caffeine boost.

It's good thing the cash register was on the other end of the counter - less loitering where the car came through.

Made for lots of jokes for a while.



As for the Riverside article:

I bet the chief was stinking drunk, but no sobriety test was given and no mention of the stop was in the police report.

Chief Leach wasn't prosecuted over past allegation he smacked his wife in San Diego county - if had been Riverside county and he was not a police office, The prosecutor would have been on it like a mad dog and Leach would have had some time to cool his heels in the county jail and required to go through 52 weeks of anger management classes (It only takes 16 weeks to learn the material necessary to "teach" the class).

Even though Riverside county has the policy of filing on 100% of the police reports forwarded to them (even the meritless ones), I will also bet that Leach has no fear of facing an overcharged DA filing even if the CHP report (investigated long after the fact) branded him as an unmitigated menace to society. And the creative fiction which is always present in police reports will probably be tilted as far in favor of Leach as the reporting officer can get away with. No time in jail, no year of ACE classes.

Think of all the multiplied charges which Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco could heap on Leach. The man was impaired, hit and run on a street light pole and fire hydrant, unsafe vehicle throwing up sparks with two flat tires and a hanging fender, a man who can't remember how he got into the neighborhood he was stopped in and won't say where he was on super bowl night. The sheer potential for tragedy.

Pacheco could write a book of charges on just that alone, without tossing in a few extra for good measure.

But DA Pacheco won't hammer the man buttering his bread like he would do to anyone else.

Wait and see.