San Luis Obispo County Sheriffs Dept. vs. the Pedo Bear

[JazzRemington]

http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/092010/an_introduction_to_pedobear.jpg
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Discuss.

[Agnapostate]

I lol'd. But these classics are better.

http://purplejesus.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/pedobearwin.jpg

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/5/50/Pandaprint.jpg

[Who?]

Does anyone else find it funny that the guy you're supposed to contact about PedoBear is named Jim W. Jones? :blink:

[Animal Farm Pig]

I found this post on Slashdot (http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1788146&cid=33589564). I found it insightful:

I've been living around SLO now for six years or so. The Sherriff's Department is in a bit of an awkward position. On one hand, they have local politicians breathing down their necks to be tougher on crime. Between the Cal Poly party scene and the inevitable knee-jerk hatred of the college kids, there is definitely a sharp ideological divide between the SLOcals and the Polywags. On the other hand, there are some pretty high crime rate areas in the county (like my current town, Oceano) where violent crimes and gang activities are pretty common. Thus, the Sherriff's department is usually in a game of tug-o-war between what the county-seat residents demand (more enforcement in San Luis Obispo proper) and what is probably needed most (more enforcement in surrounding communities). As such, the Sherriff's department has to come up with a lot of unique ways of addressing odd problems.

It wouldn't surprise me if this flier was released in response to some of the SLOcals shitting bricks over something one of their teenage kids read in an internet forum. However, the Sheriff's department probably doesn't want to spend any time or manpower on the issue. So they probably released the flier to shut the local whiners up while maintaining enough autonomy to do their real jobs. For what it's worth, every time I've dealt with a Sheriff deupty here, it's been pretty pleasant. One of them helped scrape me off the road when I crashed my motorcycle, and even gave me a ride home when I refused to go to the hospital. Another couple of them recognize me when I am jogging now and wave and say hi if they are outside of their cars. I've never had them stop me for trivial bullshit. I've never had them stop me period. It's always been SLO PD and the CHP that give me shit over ridiculous stuff.

All in all, SLO county is a delightfully weird place to live. the SLO folk are so hell bent about maintaining a nice community that they pass all sorts of batshit insane, jerk off laws. For instance, just this year a city-wide ban on smoking was enacted. You can't smoke anywhere in public now, or within 20 feet of another person's residence. So if you smoke, you're screwed. Then there was the measure that made it so noise ordinance violations could be classified as "unruly gatherings" and, rather than simply fining the offenders, all members present can now be criminally prosecuted and arrested. As such, I'd hate to work for the Sheriff's department. They are stuck between trying to prevent real crimes (like the constant stabbings in Oceano, or the poaching of wildlife up in Cayucos) and pandering to a bunch of rich whiny twats that want to create the "perfect community." It's strange.

[Red Commissar]

Everyone should show up to the police station dressed up as pedobear.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

"PedoBear is and should be associated with the Internet and pedophiles/sexually-preferential [Huh?!? -NoX] offenders who reportedly use him to communicate their interests in young children to each other"

As reported by who? Fox "News"?

[Adi Shankara]

"PedoBear is and should be associated with the Internet and pedophiles/sexually-preferential [Huh?!? -NoX] offenders who reportedly use him to communicate their interests in young children to each other"

As reported by who? Fox "News"?

You'd think pedophiles wouldn't use any symbols at all, seeing as they don't really want to get caught...

oh Fox News, you guize funneh!

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

You'd think pedophiles wouldn't use any symbols at all, seeing as they don't really want to get caught...

oh Fox News, you guize funneh!

You'd know Thomas.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I still do not understand what it means to be a sexually-preferential offender.

[Adi Shankara]

You'd know Thomas.

are you trying to say or imply something?

[ZeroNowhere]

I still do not understand what it means to be a sexually-preferential offender.Perhaps they are simply expressing the fact that heterosexuals, homosexuals, and so on, inasmuch as they can often apparently be sexually attracted to people on the basis of appearance, could be sexually attracted to a minor just as much as somebody of their own age given that they looked the same, and abuse them as a result. Given this, it is necessary that all sexual people be suspects, so that even people generally considered 'normal' sexually must be watched carefully if discovered in or with a pedobear costume.

Or something.