Small Town, WTF
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/us/01imposter.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=1c96a74ea3cc74c6&ex=1215489600&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1214918458-%20zsJb5frzsAN4IwVDYJTKA
GERALD, Mo. — Like so many rural communities in the country’s middle, this tiny town had wrestled for years with the woes of methamphetamine. Then, several months ago, a federal agent showed up.
Busts began. Houses were ransacked. People, in handcuffs on their front lawns, named names. To some, like Mayor Otis Schulte, who considers the county around Gerald, population 1,171, “a meth capital of the United States,” the drug scourge seemed to be fading at last.
Those whose homes were searched, though, grumbled about a peculiar change in what they understood, from television mainly, to be the law.
They said the agent, a man some had come to know as “Sergeant Bill,” boasted that he did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he worked for the federal government.
But after a reporter for the local weekly newspaper made a few calls about that claim, Gerald’s anti-drug campaign abruptly unraveled after less than five months. Sergeant Bill, it turned out, was no federal agent, but Bill A. Jakob, an unemployed former trucking company owner, a former security guard, a former wedding-performing minister, a former small-town cop from 23 miles down the road.
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the double-click-pop-up thing on nytimes.com is wtf-worthy imho, ...
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Story rules!
I've taken to browsing NYTimes with my user agent set to "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
