{"id":199451,"date":"2007-07-26T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/26\/this-is-not-funny-its-repulsive\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T03:02:00","slug":"this-is-not-funny-its-repulsive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/26\/this-is-not-funny-its-repulsive\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not Funny, It&#8217;s Repulsive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti, of Painesville, Ohio, is a power drunk jerk, which is all the more remarkable since a municipal court judge does not have much in the way of power.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/plaindealer\/index.ssf?\/base\/lake\/1185438652128710.xml&amp;coll=2\">ordered three men charged with soliciting sex to take turns dressing in a bright yellow chicken costume while carrying a sign that reads &#8220;No Chicken Ranch in Painesville.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d call him a schmuck, but a schmuck has a head.<\/p>\n<p>This might be a cute movie, or a funny Simpsons episode, but in real life it&#8217;s an example of abuse of power, and this is not the first time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">It&#8217;s not the first time Cicconetti has used barnyard animals in his sentences. He ordered a man who called a policeman a pig to stand next to a live pig in a pen and hold a sign that read &#8220;This Is Not a Police Officer.&#8221; A couple who stole a baby Jesus statue from a manger were sentenced to dress as Mary and Joseph and walk with a donkey.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m upset at the tone of the story too, that says we are all supposed to laugh about it.<\/p>\n<p>Professional misconduct is nothing to laugh about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti, of Painesville, Ohio, is a power drunk jerk, which is all the more remarkable since a municipal court judge does not have much in the way of power. In any case, ordered three men charged with soliciting sex to take turns dressing in a bright yellow chicken costume &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,972,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-justice","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}