Hallelujah Hatrack

So, this morning I’m watching the “Today Show” and their doing a story about how in
Texas police have been going into bars to arrest drunk people.  Yup, handcuffs and paddy wagon (or at least plastic tie things and a tricked out Astro van).

Huh?

Now, I realize that this may be good if they keep a drunk driver off of the road, but one of the women was arrested at a hotel bar and she was staying at the hotel! 

Again, huh?

Then I got to thinking, what’s next for the police to do, and I came up with this week’s Five for Friday:

-Maybe they can go into restaurants and arrest people for over eating.  I mean, isn’t obesity at epidemic proportions (at least that’s what I keep hearing)?  Shouldn’t’ these people have to pay for their crime against the healthcare industry?

-Perhaps they can go into churches, synagogues, and mosques (or maybe not mosques – we don’t want to offend anyone…) and arrest people for praying.

-Then they can go to high school musicals and arrest people for singing along and tapping their toes (“You’re doing fine Oklahoma, Oklahoma, OK!” – just try not to sing along, I dare you).

-Or the police can go to movie theaters and arrest people who are eating popcorn (lucky for me I’m a Hot Tamales guy and not a popcorn guy).

-And finally, now that spring is here, they can go to baseball games and arrest all of the people who “root, root, root, for the home team.”

Arresting people who are drinking in bars – I’m pretty sure that this is one of the sure signs of the apocalypse.  If they want to arrest people in bars, my suggestion is they go to karaoke bars and arrest anyone who sings a Bachman-Turner Overdrive song.

Oh, what a wonderful world that would be…