drunk and disorderly

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Ronald Butters <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I remember this term very well. 55 years ago in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at =
> midnight behind Danceland Ballroom, I was arrested with my best for =
> being "drunk and disorderly" and spent the night in jail in a cell by =
> myself; I remember being horrified that the toilet had no wooden seat. =
> The judge gave me a directed verdict of "not guilty," which I do think =
> was fair and just (the arresting officer testified that he knew I was =
> drunk because I told him, "I have not indulged in promiscuous =
> consumption" to deny the putative cause of my alleged drunkenness, and =
> "Thoreau would be proud of me" as he clanked the lock-up door shut. =
> Smart-assed little twit!). I Â learned my lesson and have not been in a =
> jail cell since (not sure if Thoreau would be proud of me for that, =
> considering what all the Yankee college students were doing in the South =
> for civil rights in the 1950s). Not sure that I am not still a =
> smart-assed twit.

FWIW, I find that anecdote to be a real thigh-slapper! Standing up to
The Man and then getting busted for speech above and beyond the
vocabulary of a policeman... Priceless!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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