SilentScope001 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 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 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. ... And the questions keep coming. How did Jakob wander into town and apparently leave the mayor, the aldermen and pretty much everyone else he met thinking that he was a federal agent delivered from Washington to help barrel into peoples' homes and clean up Gerald's drug problem? And why would anyone — receiving no pay and with no known connection to little Gerald, 70 miles from St. Louis and not even a county seat — want to carry off such a time-consuming ruse in the first place? http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/01/america/01imposter.php ... Alright fine, so the guy didn't wear a skull or killed anybody (yet). And Sergant Bill is a liar, something I'm sure The Punisher would never do. But there we go. Real life vigliante. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mur'phon Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Somebody will be spending a looooong time in jail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev7 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Yeah, but he made the world a better place.... :/ Interesting read SilentScope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mur'phon Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 By searching houses without a permit? So you don't have a problem with random people ransacking your house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiestainabox Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Honestly, someone had to do it. It was wrong that he lied about it, and overstepped his authority, but if the police won't do it, who will? Still, he can go to jail knowing he did something good for the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev7 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Now, now murph, I never said that. That is why he is going to jail. He made 'the world a better place' because this guy stopped meth users. He did impersonate a federal agent though...lots of jail time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan7 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 There is only one possible conclusion... This is what happens if you have too much time on your hands for many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mur'phon Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 This is what happens if you have too much time on your hands for many years. And desperately want to be someone Fixd:xp: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev7 Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Fight a real crime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mace MacLeod Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Maybe the townsfolk will start wondering why they're putting up with speedfreaks everywhere if one guy can just wander into town and do all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Fight a real crime.What about The Power? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcesious Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Well... This story isn't all that suprising... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aash Li Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 I say give the guy a real search warrent, and several medals as well as a reward. He was doing the police's job better than they were... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totenkopf Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Looks like making "citizen's arrests" leads to a citizen's arrest. The road to hell and all that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Pffft, amateur...no blowing up houses = Fail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTavish Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Huh, The Punisher was on FX recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoiuyWired Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Hmmm... NEXT UP: DEADPOOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhil2501 Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Hmmm... NEXT UP: DEADPOOL. There was even a real life Iron Man, way before the comic book was made. Australia's own historical figure Ned Kelly, what a vigilante! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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