CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Jim Breen wrote:
> >>> chuckers wrote:
> >>>> Debito is probably going to *LOVE* this:
> >>> I'm 80:20  about Debito.  80% of the time I think he's making a fool
> >>> of himself, but 20% of the time I think he's saying and doing
> >>> things that I wish more gaigins would say and do. Often we bend
> >>> over backwards to accept and defend blatantly xenophobic
> >>> actions in the interest of having a quiet life and not making
> >>> a fuss.
> > 
> >> I have had a number of assignments in Hakodate, Tomakomae, Sapporo and
> >> Asahikawa that have involved visits with the local police.  You'd be
> >> surprised how much Being White But Not At All Like Debit can become the
> >> litmus test of whether Hokkaido Dou-kei will assist with information /
> >> assistance or not.
> > 
> >> I have met the two cops Debit "outed" at the Chitose Airport a couple of
> >> times in "other" venues and projects, and find it impossible to believe
> >> that the Great ID Caper could possibly have happened the way he writes
> >> it.  As a matter of fact, it appears as though he stalked them, made
> >> them obvious, and destroyed a major arrest operation that had taken
> >> about three months to put together.  Several career criminals avoided
> >> arrest that day thanks to his untiring efforts to be a complete asshole.
> >>  I guess the fact that they didn't just shoot him on the spot shows how
> >> truly calm, flexible, and collected the cops can be.
> > 
> > Or maybe they have to pay for their own bullets.

> Bullets are one thing the cops always seem to have an adequate budget 
> for ... hundreds of clay pigeons and paper human cutouts quiver in fear 
> at the number of shots expended ...

Sorry, I thought we were talking about the JAPANESE police.

Mike