“III.5.3 (on the wall in the street); 8898: Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog“
— Graffiti from Pompeii, 79 AD
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E. coli, not staphylococcus
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Fried Pork Rings?
You mean imitation calamari?
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Stories like this make me afraid to move back to the US. As a teacher any criminal record basically disqualifies me from working in the field and would essentially ruin my life. It seems one has to maintain a constant state of law-abiding vigilance to avoid getting arrested there, a notion so ridiculous here in Canada.
“Gasp !!, (clutching pearls). Oh My!!”
I went to this web site and started to read and I can just imagine this cop going berserk reading the graffiti. " how would you explain this to my four year old?" he exclaimed. Trying to write a ticket and contact his supervisor at the same time…
That’s what I thought at first, from the picture. Pork rings, but smaller. Nope. They were little, puckered, fried anus. Rubbery and chewy. I never ordered them again.
Yes, but the really important detail everyone is waiting to hear is what condiment did you dip your fried pig anus in?
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That’s the surprising thing. In the region where I was living, they didn’t really have many sauces. I once brought plum sauce back from Canada to dip my spring rolls in and they were fascinated with the stuff. There are a LOT of different food styles in China and my area didn’t really have much western-style Chinese food.
So, I did not dip my fried pig anus in anything. Just chewed and chewed it dry.
I always tried everything once when I lived there, in case I might be presently surprised. Stomach and appendix soup was a gross as it sounds (both floating whole in the broth) but turtle soup (with the heads ad feet floating in the soup) was surprisingly tasty. Usually though, if it was made with icky animal parts, it was usually pretty icky. Hotpot with calf brains was not good, for example. Neither was duck tongue. The vast majority of other food was awesome so it was a plus at the end.
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I must admit that would be tough for me. I’m a sauce type of person regardless if the food is inside or outside of my comfort zone.
I travel to and from the Philippines so I am somewhat aware of the creative use of animal parts I previously considered non-edible. There are things I will try to experience the culture and then there is stuff that, well, I feel pretty cultured and don’t need to prove anything to anyone. 
I know “though shall not covet thy nieghbor’s ass” from the Fugs. Perscheid wasn’t born yet when The Ten Commandments came out. As for the cartoon depicted in the post, it could very well be from Perscheid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13yFXim3PwU Cheers from Dresden!
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You’re right (note to self - at least try to watch videos now and again, mea culpa).
That might explain why the State Attorney’s office declined to prosecute.
It’s always interesting to see (from a safe distance) how cops can take the already draconian powers given to them and still abuse them in a way that is not permitted by the already incredibly wide latitude granted to them.
You’re right - the cop was within his powers to decide to charge with the obscenity charge (pointless but hey) but once he made the determination that the writing was obscene and ordered Webb to damage his own property, that was, in my view at least, no longer a lawful act by the officer.
Therefore refusal to remove cannot be ‘resisting’.
He essentially decided that the court date was a mere formality and he could act as the judge immediately.
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Depends how you look at it.
Its probably not so much an order as a suggestion to avoid an infraction.
But what gets me is the readiness to use the whip hand. Now that the officer is given the direction that the infraction MAY take, I don’t ever hear him say "this infraction is enough to have you arrested - are you sure you don’t want to alter the slogan? So no second chance to reconsider - just the slammer - because we can.
Part of the hallowed police tradition of trumping up charges when the suspect fails to sufficiently respect their authority.
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FTFY
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