Ohio, the heart of it all

[Ed Anger]

Ah, Springfield. A wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Ohio hotel: Half-staff US flag not mourning bin Laden
'It started getting out of hand. One person said we needed to be run out of town'



An Ohio hotel has been fending off angry phone calls because a broken rope on its flagpole led some to think the business was mourning the death of Osama bin Laden.



The rope left the U.S. flag stuck at half-staff outside a Hampton Inn in Springfield in western Ohio two days before bin Laden was killed, its assistant general manager Connie Smith told msnbc.com.

However, people started noticing the flag and assuming its position was in honor of bin Laden on Tuesday.

The hotel and its company received dozens of calls from people who were either upset or angry. One threatened to run the hoteliers out of town.

Smith, speaking by phone after the Springfield News-Sun first reported the story, said the flag had become frayed and the maintenance man was trying to replace it.

"He was trying to lower it down and it got stuck ... and it got stuck at half mast," Smith said. "It was raining, we've had non-stop rain for the past two or three weeks. The rope was slippery, it was so rainy, so windy, we just couldn't mess with it."

"Next thing I know we start getting calls like left and right, a couple of dozen at least," she added.
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One prospective guest on Tuesday night said he wasn't going to stay at the hotel because of the flag, but relented when told it was a maintenance issue, rather than in honor of bin Laden.

'Disgraceful'
Smith said the first call was polite with the caller saying "Did you realize your flag is half-mast?"

But the real deluge began Wednesday morning. "My first call was from a woman whose son was a sergeant in the army. She thought it was disgraceful," Smith said.

   

"It was all over Facebook. I got a call from a man who said his boss told him about it at a meeting of 20 to 30 people," she added.

Smith said she was shocked by the volume of calls.

"It started getting out of hand. One person said we needed to be run out of town," she said, adding that another said the flag had to be fixed or he would "come out and chop that flagpole down."

It was fixed by 9 a.m. Wednesday, Smith said, but the calls continued until 9:30 p.m.

The hotel is part of the Hilton hotel group — its flag flies below Old Glory — and Smith said it also received "a ton of calls."

"They had one woman who was so distraught because she lost a friend in 9/11," Smith said, adding that the caller ended up in tears.

"The whole town thought we were supporting bin Laden. So many people really had a fit about it. They were calling the local newspaper, they were calling the police. I didn't realize how patriotic our city is," she added.

For the record, Smith said that while she didn't "want to see anybody die" she felt relieved when she heard bin Laden was dead. "A little justice was done for those people (his victims). He cannot hurt anybody any more."

[The Brain]

Americans are incredibly stupid.

[Ed Anger]

D'oh!

[Caliga]

Why would anyone assume if a flag is at half staff it would be for bin Laden?

[citizen k]

Americans are incredibly stupid.

We are the amalgamation of humanity.

[Ed Anger]

Why would anyone assume if a flag is at half staff it would be for bin Laden?

Ever been to Springfield? You'd know then.

[CountDeMoney]

http://www.drunkenstepfather.com/index.php/2010/04/16/dayton-ohio-is-the-happiest-place-on-earth-of-the-day#comments (NSFW)

Enjoy the videos of cops slapping darkies around and the *click* of a taser being used. The channel 7 reporter, Jill Del Greco, is a cunt.

Ah, memories.  Fun stuff.

[Zoupa]

"The whole town thought we were supporting bin Laden. So many people really had a fit about it. They were calling the local newspaper, they were calling the police. I didn't realize how patriotic our city is," she added.

[The Brain]

To be fair to the townspeople as Americans they are used to supporting terrorism and mourning terrorists.

[Ed Anger]

"The whole town thought we were supporting bin Laden. So many people really had a fit about it. They were calling the local newspaper, they were calling the police. I didn't realize how patriotic our city is," she added.

By jingo! If only they had listened to the Guardian back in 2004.

[Ed Anger]

The girl that microwaved her baby got convicted again. The Rion law family fails again. Worst lawyers ever.

[Ed Anger]

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Intoxicated 'Wolfman' Arrested in Lorain County

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Intoxicated 'Wolfman' Arrested in Lorain County
By Dan Jovic | [email protected] Fox8.com Reporter

10:21 a.m. EDT, June 8, 2011
LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio -- Authorities recently arrested a Sheffield Township man for underage consumption, but it's what the man told authorities after the arrest that had them howling with laughter.

According to an arrest report filed on the incident, Thomas Stroup, 20, of Sheffield Township, was taken into custody on May 29, 2011, around 12:30 a.m. at the Timber Ridge Campground.

   

Lorain County Sheriffs deputies had received a call of a man acting angrily and becoming violent with campers and animals. When deputies arrived at the scene, according to the report, they found Stroup passed out in a trailer. Deputies say Stroup smelled of alcohol and when he was eventually were able to wake him up, he began growling at them.

Stroup was placed under arrest for underage consumption and told authorities that he had blacked out from drinking too much vodka that evening.

According to the report Stroup went on to say that ever since he was scratched by a wolf in Germany he blacks out when the moon comes out and goes on the attack.

Stroup was booked into the Lorain County jail and posted bond on May 31, 2011. Details on his initial court appearance were not provided by officials at the Lorain County jail.

Fox 8's attempts to contact Stroup for comment via e-mail were not returned.

[CountDeMoney]

Intoxicated 'Wolfman' Arrested in Lorain County

...but it's what the man told authorities after the arrest that had them howling with laughter.

Never ceases to amaze me why more journalism majors don't commit suicide.

[HVC]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2011/06/27/18339306.html

Police say a drunk Ohio woman sprayed officers with breast milk when they tried to arrest her.

Early Saturday, officers responded to a dispute between a married couple at a wedding in Delaware, OH.

The husband alleges his wife, Stephanie Robinette, 30, struck him several times and locked herself in the car.

When officers tried to get her out of the car, she told them she was a "breastfeeding mother and proceeded to remove her right breast from her dress and began spraying deputies and the vehicle with her breast milk," Sheriff Walter Davis said in a statement.

More police responded, removed Robinette from the car and placed her under arrest.

Robinette is in custody and faces charges of domestic violence, assault, obstructing official business, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct

[garbon]