Discussion: Pentagon Official Accused Of Stealing License Plates In Bizarre Parking Dispute

It is amazing how so many people get really angry when someone who they feel is ā€˜beneath them’ get any sort of ā€˜privilege’ that they feel the person is not entitled to. It is no different than the stares food stamp users get.

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Good grief.

Bizarre? Maybe. But it’s certainly common enough from the ā€œfolks who know bestā€. That is all the authority these folks need–a belief in one’s own perfect infallibility.

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So…the parking pass situation…nutty delusion or, if real, any nanny blowback? A nanny insurgent?

That needs about 100+ likes.

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That may be part of it, but people really lose their shit over public parking… on a public street… which the public themselves own… and start quoting the Constitution, acting like they’re carrying a burning brand of righteousness, and have no problem lying through their teeth to justify their wrong-headed actions. Funny how a technically intelligent educated person is willing to literally break the law over a perceived parking permit infraction instead of just fucking talking to the object of their ire in a grown up way.

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Some people like feet,some like fingers what ever floats his boat I guess,in the guise of indignation of the so called misuse of a visitors pass.My,my.

Bryan Whitman, the highest-ranking career civilian in the Defense Department’s public affairs office

well, he clearly knows how to get some attention, way to go !!

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Know whose fault this is? Bernie Bros. I’m sure of it.

I’m surprised that stealing license plates has such a minor penalty.

That’s serious criminal activity.

Pet peeves causing mischief.

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Bryan Whitman, the highest-ranking career civilian in the Obama Defense Department’s public affairs office, refuses to implicate President Obama in his actions.

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I’ve seen it more than once. A classic one is where Driver 1 has pulled just ahead of a parallel parking spot, with the intention of backing into the spot. Meanwhile, Driver 2, the next car back, sees the same spot and starts to pull into it nose-forward.

This is often only half-successful, since there was a reason Driver 1 was going to back into the spot – it’s too tight to go easily maneuver into forward. So Driver 2 struggles forward and backward trying to get themselves fully into the spot, or maybe gives up and waits at an awkward nose-in angle, hoping Driver 1 will give up and leave so that Driver 2 can pull out, pull forward, and back in like Driver 1 was planning to do in the first place.

Meanwhile Driver 1 isn’t about to give up that easily, and sits there honking their horn and swearing and gesturing, and maybe gets out and confronts Driver 2, verbally and/or physically, over the ā€œstolenā€ parking spot.

I bet I’m not the only one here who has witnessed some version of that scenario play out numerous times.

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ā€œI know you are misusing this visitor pass to park here daily,ā€ the note read, according to the report. ā€œIf you do not stop I will report it, have your car towed and the resident who provided this to you will have his privileges taken away.ā€

Who knew Big Brother is a Public Affairs official at the Pentagon?

The tone of that note is creepy and punitive. As if he’d spent a lot of time lurking in the bushes just watching and seething and plotting his revenge.

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…and the NRA opinesā€¦ā€œif only he had a gunā€¦ā€ (siiiiighhhhh).

He bears an uncanny resemblance to the Mr Robot guy-------

I’ve seen that at least once:

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I once had a city bus driver stop his bus, and get out to yell at me because the nose of my car–maybe all of five feet of it–was in a buses only lane. I would have reacted apologetically and moved if empty buses only parking lane hadn’t had space enough in front of me for 5 full sized city buses. As it was I reacted…somewhat badly. Someone actually got off the bus to diffuse the situation; in the 30+ years since than, that person has become one of my closest friends. Funny how things work out sometimes.

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Pentagon Official Accused Of Stealing License Plates In Bizarre Parking Dispute

He’s lucky he got off lightly — he could have found himself making license plates for a living.

I bet he also owns guns.

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