Officer Mobilio was shot and killed from ambush when he stopped at a gas station between 0130 and 0200 hours to fill up his patrol car. He was shot two times by an unknown suspect as he got out of his patrol car. Fellow officers began looking for Officer Mobilio when he failed to answer radio calls. They located his body next to his patrol car with his gun nearby. It is believed he drew his weapon when the confrontation started with the suspect.

The suspect was apprehended in Concord, New Hampshire, on November 27, 2002, after authorities learned his location. The suspect admitted to murdering Officer Mobilio in an effort to protest his perception of police brutality and corporate irresponsibility. On April 5, 2005, the suspect was convicted of murder in connection with Officer Mobilio's death.

The gas station Officer Mobilio stopped at is the facility used by the police department and sheriff's department to fuel department vehicles.

Officer Mobilio had been with the Red Bluff Police Department for 4 years and served on patrol and as the DARE officer. He is survived by his wife and 2-year-old son.

Yes, I know people are dead and all, and so in the grand scheme of things this isn't that important, but...

YOU POSTED AS HOKE AGAIN.

Cut it out.

This is why I am so insistent on not having any murder-talk on this site, even in jest.

and I sort of, well, accidentally stabbed him in the throat with a salad fork.

HOKE: The stabbing killed him?

ACE: Ehhhhh... well, the stabbing put him on the ground. I think it was stomping him in the face for five or six blood-splattering minutes that actually finished the job. Dude, I was totally like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. At one point I even said, "No, you said I'm funny, I'm funny how, like a clown?" but I don't think the busboy "got" the reference, because I'm pretty sure I was just stomping on dead pulp at that point. Anyway, it was self-defense. Anyone in my shoes would have done the same.

*raises hand*
Umm, WTF?!

C'mon. There's a big difference between a goofy skit about imaginary people and darkly suggesting that maybe Michael Schiavo should get whacked.

I also discussed crack and male prostitution. I don't think that my "phone calls" could be taken as anything approaching advocacy for either.

If I remember right I thought Joe Pesci stabbed someone with his own pen in the heart and killed him. I thought it was in Goodfellas but could've been in another mafia movie.

What was the other mafia movie where they make Joe did his own grave before the kill him?

Ace, I thought you were going to suggest Michael Moore's whacking. Wait, that didn't sound right. Never mind.

You're a funny guy!

Godd*mn lawyers.

Mine told me that I didn't need to incorporate to beat a murder rap. Told me a "sole proprietor" arrangement would work provided that I had no accomplices. I better get me one of those law form kits at Staples before Johnny Law starts sniffin' around.

You're a funny guy!

I like the way Raul Julia (as Strassner) said it to Richard Dreyfess just before he grabbed him by the balls and squeezed. (Not that there's anything wrong with that).

You're a funny guy!

I like the way Raul Julia (as Strassner) said it to Richard Dreyfess in Moon Over Parador just before he grabbed him by the balls and squeezed. (Not that there's anything wrong with that).

Said it was Posted by non compos mentos ...

Plus, the guy hated pirates, and, well...

Actually, reading the article is classic: it ties together a bunch of idiotarian cliches into one murderous non-joke. Indymedia (who, of course, loved the cop killer). Evergreen State College! Anti-globalization. Pro-Paleo. Etc.

What was the other mafia movie where they make Joe did his own grave before the kill him?

Casino ..

now that was a movie with some seriously gratuitous violence ...

pro bono,

"You're a funny guy!"

I LOVE that movie! (Moon Over Parador)

And Jonathon Winters is a hoot!

I used to work with a guy who was an assistant director on that film. You know the scene where the dictator's mother returns from her shopping trip in Paris? (Ah, they told me you lost weight -- I thought you had contracted syphilis like your cousin Orlando)

Anyway, the actress meant to play the part of the mother couldn't come at the last minute, so the mother was played by the director, Paul Mazursky (sp).

Plus the guy said that Raul Julia was a real great gentleman.

L (too many damn punas) Dynamite

And the Mencken quote passes muster on your "no murder" standards?

Just wonderin'...I mean, I get it... but I'm not a paranoid/scizoid who's gonna see it as a deep message to me personally...from the voices that tell me I'm righteous in my zeal for Paul Anka and should effin' deal with someone who says he's not the most important person on the stage...I dunno...

This part of the article really bugged me:

It is as if Mickel, in his thinking, had gone so far to the fringe left that he started to look a lot like the fringe right.

What the Hell is that supposed to mean?

Sean, there's this notion of projective and affine infinities (i.e. "fringes"). With projective infinities, they are essentially signless - negitive infinity is the same as positive infinity. Affine infinities are signed and there can be positive and negative ones.

Obviously, the writer subscribes to the projective infinity notion.

Actually I do too in cases like this. There's very little practical difference between the hard hard left and the hard hard right in terms of how they would run their tyrany and enslave the populace.