Easter Slasher
Friend of McHenry County Blog Rick Voorhees got ripped on Good Friday night.
It was between 9:30 PM and Saturday morning at 8:30 AM.
Not him personally, but his inflated Snoopy, which wished neighbors,
"Happy Easter."Since he lives in Lake in the Hills, he called that village’s police.
Since Voorhees is a Christian and the Snoopy was conveying a Christian message, he tried to report the vandalism as a “hate crime.”The police wouldn’t do it.
The police report reads,
"Property Damage,"Voorhees told me.
12 comments:
Cal,
If you want to post this drivel on your blog, that's your right. But what the hell is it doing on Illinoize? Please spare us.
Happy Easter.
Perhaps if the inflated object resembled someone or something that was in the Bible, your friend would have had a stronger case to demand the incident be reported as a hate crime. But Snoopy misses out on such inclusion by just over 19 centuries or so. Sorry.
I agree, Cal. I regularly post pointless stuff on my blog and don't cross-post over here. You should, too.
I'm figuring this is tongue in cheek, right?
Hopefully, Cal is making fun of a clueless individual who doesn't see the obvious irony in claiming that an admittedly diabolical slashing of a heavily commercialized inflatable cartoon character perched atop an ancient pagan symbol is the direct result of anti-Christian hate and should be prosecuted as such.
Or, perhaps Cal is implying that the slasher might be part of a radical Christian cell driven to felonious ferocity by a multi-billion dollar corporation mixing blatant (and undoubtedly Chinese-manufactured) paganism with a small side order of holiness - sans Cross - in order to further pad its bulging offshore bank accounts and employ more near-slave laborers in non-Christian nations.
If either of those messages are the case, I get the joke. And, Cal, I gotta hand it to you. That's pretty darned funny, and deep.
Happy Easter, Charlie Brown.
I bet Santa's elves were behind it! That's right, it was a conspiracy!! Snoopy died trying to save the egg...LOL
I hope the vandals are caught.
Happy Easter!
I just read where a school out East has changed the name of the Easter Bunny to Peter Cottontail because of the Easter Bunnies Christian reference. It just keeps getting nuttier.
Cal,
You got great posts on economic and cultural issues. I don't always agree.
I don't know if this is a hate crime against Christians or not, but I think it is more than the joke that Rich Miller says or the insults some of the secular liberals throw at you.
Christians are not discriminated against unless:
They want to run for office.
Get tenure at a University.
Dare to disagree with any aspect of Evolution or think that God could of created the Universe even with Evolution.
If you dare to even want your own kids and yourself to believe that certain sexual acts are sins.
That you want to play any role in the public square, policy, schools or anything else.
If you want any tax equity or fairness if you home school or utilize non government schools.
You can't insult certain groups.
BUT you can insult other groups.
I could list numerous examples.
BUT since it is EASTER--Happy Easter.
For Pete's sake, it's SNOOPY!! It's not a friggin hate crime. Get anything resembling a clue.
And I agree with the other two. If you're going to post nonsense, post it on your own blog.
Are you insane?
It's a damn blow-up Snoopy on an Easter Egg!
Existing laws against vandalism or property damage can cover this.
Get out of here with the hate crime talk. Frankly as a Christian I'm more offended by your wanting to extend such a law to the protection of an insulting symbol of Easter in the first place.
At least your "story" didn't have some meaningless repeat of some meaningless thing that happened during the "good old days" when you were a State Rep.
Get a life!
When did Snoopy, eggs and bunnies become part of the pagan holiday known as Easter?
This guy thinks its a hate crime to slash Snoopy? I hope nobody whacks his blow-up "Homer Simpson Santa".
Rich, I thought you were going to be in your yard, not on the computer. You need to go cold turkey and leave the machine off for this week.
Good day all.
Maybe they hate tacky and tasteless garbage. The real crime is anyone putting this stuff in their yard.
Hatecrime! Snoopy. Give the police a break.
What's the deal?
Was the post a joke or not?
Unless advised otherwise, I have to assume he was serious.
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