I’m still wandering the roads of Cinco Ranch, wondering when my truck’s going to be back-ended by a raving anti-Obama madman (or woman). So far, there have been nothing but odd looks… but down the road a few miles in Sugarland, things are a bit less refined. From the Houston Chronicle:
SUGAR LAND — In case their Plantation Bend neighbors had any questions about how Doug and Wendy McKain feel about Barack Obama, the bumper sticker on their pickup could be a clue.
But when Chynethia Gragg spotted the sticker — depicting someone urinating on the name “Obama” — Sugar Land police say, she stopped to express her disapproval, and that’s when things got ugly.
Gragg, 35, has been charged with making a terroristic threat after confronting the McKains, telling them the sticker was racist, police said.
There’s enough irony here to start a metal shop. I mean… seriously. What were the odds of the vocabulary-challenged Ms. Gragg coming across somebody named McKain in a subdivision called Plantation Bend?
Truth really is stranger than fiction.
I couldn’t help wondering, though, how offensive that bumper sticker could have been. We’re talking about a piece of sticky vinyl 3″ tall, after all! Was it this one?
If so, it doesn’t even rate a faint *ping* on the racism meter. It does, however, get a buzz on the *tasteless* meter.
No laws against looking like one grew up in a barn, though. In fact, the Bill of Rights guarantees that the McKain’s are absolutely free to display their total lack of refinement on the back of their vehicle.
Meanwhile, I couldn’t help reflecting on my own back window. What would I do if some unhinged individual followed me all the way to my house to confront me and yell obscenities and threaten?
Ummm…. have I mentioned I live in Texas?
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If Ms. Gragg needs help distinguishing between racism and crudity, btw, this reaction to her story should clear things right up. These are the people we should all be worried about.
:giggle: :chortle: :ROTFLMAO:
Sorry, I can’t help it… when I look at that bumper sticker, I can’t help but think of the “Light saber/ring” fight in “Space Balls”.
May the Schwartz be with you!
:giggle: :chortle: :ROTFLMAO:
~EdT.
Texas is the only state that has bumper stickers like these? Or reactions like these? Or ‘idiots’ like these? I thought I just recently read in one of your posts about racism in LA, that great state just to our east.
Goldenrod, you totally missed the meaning of the reference to Texas.
Well, clue me in. I’m listening to the explanation of what you meant by that reference.
Polimom,
Indeed, Ms Gragg is fortunate that the police arrived to take her away to an air conditioned resting place. Confronting the McKains in their own driveway, threatening them . . . . . . Obviously she missed this.
An air conditioned room (with ornamental iron bars) sure beats a pine box . . . .
Trackback from Campaign ’08: Tacky & Tasteless vs. Terroristic & Threatening:
Goldenrod – I think she was referring to the (stereotypical) preferred method of settling disputes in the state (as an example, the original “Don’t Mess With Texas” commercial featured a USAAF B-17 bomber on final approach to the littering inDUHvidual…)
:ouch:
~EdT.
zOMG, Polimom, you sure find some real cesspools, don’t you?
:shudder:
~EdT.