About 3 o'clock this afternoon, I was watching my local NBC affiliate when they broke into the tv show with a Breaking News announcement. Apparently a manatee had been found swimming in the Mississippi River near Mud Island. If you watch the video, you will notice about 8-10 cops milling around the shoreline watching the manatee swim. The police were tipped off to the manatee when a concernced citizen called in to report a hippopatamus sitting on the dock. The best part of this is that Memphis has the second highest violent crime rate in the USA and just this week end there were four murders. Today at 10 a.m. the Mayor had a press conference to talk about how he will probably have to raise taxes to hire more cops to combat the violent crime. Couldn't those 8-10 cops (with more arriving as the video was being show by Chopper 5) be out patroling the streets and picking up criminals instead of staring at a sea cow?
2 comments:
Maybe all the police attention has to do with the Manatee Profiling that has happened in recent years.
Some manatees feel that they are automatically under suspicion just for being a manatee. Additionally, some manatees have been known to be involved in gangs. Was this manatee wearing a red bandana? Or a blue one? Was he sporting any bling? That might explain the over-abundance of cops ...
If you weren't swimming around naked in the Mississippi, the cops wouldn't be waiting around to arrest you.
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