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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Ideas & Questions

Published: 12 May 2011

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Never a good deed goes unpunished....

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Rants

Published: 12 May 2011

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Always testing new ground, the Dallas Police Force announces that it will keep found money turned over to them by a child and "We're going to put the money to good use. It's not going to be wasted, but put to good use for the City of Dallas." Note the straight face the police officer keeps as he says this. Now I have a few observations - is this even legal? I doubt anyone in the Dallas Police Force even cares, "legality" an abstract thought that has little to do with their jobs. "Put to good use.." is I think is a euphemism for "already drank/smoked/snorted it away. They're testing new ground, the moral is, find something, pick it up, keep it yourself. Don't subsidize the police force's bad habits, theft apparently amongst them. And where's the PR guy telling them that for two thousand dollars they just bought themselves ten million dollars worth of bad publicity? Who thinks these things through? A thinking cop is about as much of an oxymoron as an honest lawyer...

Link: http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Dallas-decides-to-keep-cash-found-by-honest-teen-121609364.html

And before you dismiss this as "happened there and not here", rest assured your local police force will be paying close attention to see what fallout there is from this and adjusting their policies accordingly.

Art Made With Spools

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Written by: Rod Boyle

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Published: 12 May 2011

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I've seen similar with buttons and trash and linked to it previously, here's another artist doing the same with spools of different colored thread. Her "gimmick" is that the portraits are upside down and don't always make sense unless viewed through a glass or crystal ball which reduces and inverts the image.

Link: Inverted Art Made With Spools