| It takes balls to get a job these days |
The good news, in Kansas City anyway, is that Waldo Pizza waiter (and future novelist) Joel O'Laughlin is not only employed, but was voted "Best Waiter" by the Pitch readers. And although it's not a high-paying gig, wine expert Doug Frost picked up another PBS-TV role as one of the judges in The Winemakers reality show, which premieres this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on KCPT-Channel 19.
If you can't be working on TV, there's always the food service industry, where tipping -- To Insure Prompt Service -- is the primary income for most servers and bartenders, although Jonathan Bender discovered that some people don't think tipping should even exist. In Fat City, we believe that all people who dislike tipping should be forced to work at least one shift as a server in a dining room filled with pushy, disagreeable cheapskates.
We also learned that kids who eat too much candy may grow up to be violent (and potentially bad-tipping) adults and that not everyone has the patience to visit every single farm on the Kaw Valley Farms Tour. And speaking of candy, Jonathan Bender discovered there are, mercifully, alternatives to candy corn just in time for the Halloween buying season. Those choices come in cellophane bags, but if you want to get really ambitious, you can always make homemade Buckeye balls -- don't forget the wax.
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Um, all I can say is WTF to that last comment from mike harvey? Why the hell was that posted here, of all places???
Friday evening about 4:30 my wife on her way home from work was rear ended. The person who hit her did not have a license or current insurance. But that is not what I would like to discuss. My wife who is 9 weeks pregnant with twins called the police because she was hit. The Olathe Police came and did there accident stuff. Then the came and told her she had a warrant for her arrest from Prairie Village. She had no idea why she had a warrant. They said it was from a year ago but did not no from what. Well a year ago, my wife was pulled over for expired tags. She did not have her current insurance card. After that she was told to have her insurance company fax over a copy of her current insurance, which she did. She also went and got her new tags from the DMV. After complete what she was told to do, she did not receive any further correspondance from Prairie Village. She also works with children and has had 3 background checks since then, none of which revealed a warrant for her arrest.
They informed her that an officer from Prairie Village was coming to take her to the Prairie Village Police station. I was told that the bond was for $775 and I could pay it when the P.V. officer arrived. I said I do not have 775 dollar at home and my atm limit was 500. They said to have a bondsman come down the PV police station to get her out. I called a bondsman and went to the P.V. Police station to wait for her. As I was getting to the police station, the P.V. officer called me on my wifes phone to tell me he was taking her to the county jail. So I went to my wife's grandparents in lenexa to drop off our foster kids and went to county jail. They informed me that she must still be in transit. I did not understand because it was 3 miles from the accident to the county jail.
I got the bond set up and finally got her out around 10:00. We went straight to the hospital per the jails nurses instructions. We went to the emergency room and had several tests done. Turns out my wife was dehydrated from not getting any water for 5 hours.
Through talking to my wife she said that she told the two olathe cops that she was pregnant with twins and she had to go to the restroom. They said it was no big deal the P.V. cop would not put her hands behind her back and she would get out as soon as the bondsman showed up at the police station. They said the P.V. cop would be here in 5 minutes and he could take her to the restroom. When the P.V. cop showed up he arrested her put her hands behind her back and put her in the car. Did not put on her seatbelt. Then the three cops looked at each others cars and talked about the amenities in their new vehicles while my wife waited in the back seat to use the restroom. Mean while my wife was starting to get cramps and scared that the stress was hurting the babies, from not being allowed to go the restroom. When the P.V. cop said he was taking her to county the olathe cops asked why. He said it would be quicker for him to take her there. My wife told him that I was at the Prairie Village police department, so he removed the phone from her purse and called to tell me he was taking her to the county jail. He finally left the scene but didn't know how to get there so my wife told him. My wife was scared to death.
Once processed at the county jail she was allowed to see the nurse. The nurse talked to her and then she immediately talked to her supervisor and he told everyone to get her out of there. She was released approximately 15 minutes after speaking to the nurse.
We tried to get pregnant for years and finally spent our life's savings to do IVF. We did it and where successful two months ago. I can't believe that our pregnancy was risked over a $775 warrant and an ignorant cop. Why would you take a pregnant woman with no record and a warrant for a non moving vehicle violation to the county jail? When she was told she would be taken to P.V. policer station and paid the warrant as soon as she got there.
The bonds man couldn't believe that they took her to the county jail. He told me it would be at least two hours once she got there. After the officer called me, I had driven 20 miles and dropped off two kids and he was still not at the county jail.
I would like to do whatever I can to prevent a pregnant person from losing her baby over something this stupid. Please let me know what our options are.
Thank you
P.S. the person with no license and no insurance was allow to go free with a citation.
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