A Little Pizza Sophistry

Headline of the day, from the Metro:

‘Cheese-snorting’ pizza staff charged

Two Domino’s Pizza staff who posted a video on YouTube showing one of them stuffing cheese up his nose and breaking wind on a piece of salami have been charged with distributing prohibited foods.

Kristy Hammonds, 31, and Michael Setzer, 32, have also been fired from the branch of the chain in North Carolina where they worked.

They could argue that’s not fair. There’s no proof they use that cheese and that salami to make pizzas afterwards, so technically they’re in the clear, despite their behaviour being disgusting to any decent person.

What do you mean, that’s a specious argument? It works for Jacqui Smith.

Darth Plod

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So that’s why the police love their helmets and lightsabres batons so much – they think they’re bloody Jedi. Jerome Taylor in The Independent:

The force is with the police force

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Haha! You’ve gotta love silly freedom of information requests. Cop shop magazine Police Review put in a load of FOI’s to see whether any forces have Jedi knights in their ranks.

Lo and behold, Strathclyde Police have 10 members of staff who claim to be from the Jedi faith. They were the only force to admit it.

Well, it’s one explanation, I suppose.

Whummm, whummmm!