Birdsong's Law Blog

Oswegatchie, NY:  Here’s a stinker!  A trucker hauling a load of manure went off the road in this upstate New york town after a wild turkey flew into the cab through the open window.  the truck rolled over in a ditch spilling its stinky load.  the driver wasn’t injured and the turkey escaped unharmed.  The driver was ticketed.

PHEW!!

Deltona, FL: Eshon Hardy, 18, and Theodor Walker III, 20, were walking down a Deltona street at 4 am on a recent Monday morning when they were stopped by Sheriff’s Deputy Austin Littlejohn.  They told the deputy that they were walking home from a friend’s house, but could not remember the name of the friend.  the duo asked the deputy for a ride home.  They told Littlejohn that they were aspiring rappers, and while doing a dance for the deputy, Walker

Birdsong travelled to Chicago, Illinois, on business twice this summer.  Chicago seems to have its share of weird news.  Here are a few such stories.

August 4, 2009: An 86 year old Chicago woman was arrested for the 61^st time over last weekend – for shoplifting anti-wrinkle cream from a North Side grocery store, police report.  Ella Orko’s first arrest, for petit larceny came in 1956.  Her latest crime came on Sunday at the Dominick’s Finer Foods grocery.  An employee saw her stuff $225 worth of items into her pants before trying to leave without paying. Orko was charged with felony shoplifting and a Cook County judge ordered that she be held on $10,000 bail.  Police say she has at least 20 aliases.  Out of her 61 arrests, police say 13 resulted in convictions

Just call her “Klepto” Granny…

August 4, 2009:  A South Side man was accused of endangering thousands of lives by allegedly impersonating a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) traffic controller and radioing bogus instructions to subway train operators.  Marcel Carter, 20, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for breaking a federal law forbidding interference with transportation operators, say federal prosecutors. On or about June 2, 2009, Carter stole a CTA Kenwood radio transmitter

Vancouver, B.C.: A fast nude got himself some fast food.  Police in Vancouver are on the lookout for a thief who snatched a customer’s order of french fries while running naked past a Wendy’s drive-through window.  Stunned employees, apparently looking elsewhere did not see his face.

What other part of his anatomy could they have been staring at?

 Chicago, IL: A Chicago man was busted for robbing a bank after he tried to deposit some of the dye-stained cash

Birdsong wishes to share with you a well written  directed research paper by student Daniel Burgess.  Mr. Burgess is a strong advocate of the Second Amendment to the Constitution and opposes gun control.  His paper analyzes the early foundations of gun control laws in the U.S.  He submits that more citizens with guns would mean less crime. It is his basic thesis that the Second Amendment right of U.S. citizens to bear arms is a enumerated individual right.  Mr.  Burgess makes some cogent arguments concerning gun control  and self defense.  He has given Birdsong his permission to share his  thoughts and arguments with a wider world. Take a gander.

If You Want to Stop the Crime, Let Me Have What’s Mine:

America’s Crime Rates and Our Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Daniel W. Burgess, Jr.

July 27, 2009

 I.                   Introduction

This paper addresses the issues of crime and gun control. There is an ongoing debate about whether gun control is the problem or the solution. Proponents of gun control seek to strip the people of their constitutional right to keep and bear arms under the veil of flagrant and idyllic responses to crime, claiming guns are the problem. The opponents of gun control fight for the very freedom which was granted to them by the founding fathers and enumerated in the Bill of Rights, arguing that more guns equals less crime. [1] The reality is that by taking a law abiding citizen’s means of self-protection, one is essentially arming the criminal and inviting crime into every peaceful household in America. Italian criminologist, Cesare Beccaria, summed it up perfectly by

We all loved  my daughter Krystal Birdsong who passed away in September 2008.  In her memory Birdsong has been posting some of the things she wrote over the years.  Krystal was a wonderful writer.  Here’s a short piece we found in one of her journals.  She wrote the following in 1999, when she was the fashion writer for her high school newspaper in Maryland.

Fashion Tip For November

 This month there is a certain item of clothing that has been catching my eye.  Turtlenecks.  Luckily, they’re