This is drifting from the comic even more, but even years after the donut shops, I was going home late one night after running club and rehydrating at the local brewpub. Exiting a small town that liked ticket revenue so much they had weird speed limits because they’d found a loophole in the law and got to keep more money.
I sped up to the past town speed limit a little early and there was the town cop sitting in a place I’d never seen him before.
There I sat, sure I smelled of beer. The cop alternating his flashlight from my license to my face and back. Finally he said, “Why you’re LafinLarry! I remember you from the Donut Shop. Don’t do that any more.” And I didn’t.
Roger Clemens testified before Congress in February 2008.
Simon Bruty/SI
WASHINGTON (AP) – Roger Clemens was vehement: “Let me be clear. I have never taken steroids or HGH,” he told a House committee in 2008. Now, instead of the Hall of Fame, baseball’s seven-time Cy Young winner could go to prison after being indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for allegedly lying to Congress.
The case writes a new chapter in one of baseball’s worst scandals, the rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs in the 1990s and early 2000s, and leaves Clemens’ legacy in jeopardy.
The six-count indictment alleges that Clemens obstructed a congressional inquiry with 15 different statements made under oath, including denials that he had ever used steroids or human growth hormone.
Former Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, the top Republican on the House panel at the time of Clemens’ testimony, called it “a self-inflicted wound.”
Cops in donut shops are somewhat like aspirin in your medicine cabinet. It’s there because you want it when you need it, but you don’t use it continuously. We want emergency services available when needed, but thankfully don’t need them all the time. I’m grateful for law enforcement personnel who help keep us safe, and respond when trouble occurs. If they have the opportunity to relax with a cup of coffee, I happy for them.
Hooray for the Policemen that put their lives on the line for the rest of us everyday!! I worked at In-N-Out Burger for my first job back in the 1970’s and it’s still their policy today to give all law enforcement officers 1/2 price on everything. Keeps the cops around and the armed robberies down.
@colt9033 - I think part of the problem with living to ride is that Lance lost track of real life. How do you not win after winning so much in such a small world?
pouncingtiger about 14 years ago
How true. Sugar is a drug for kids. That’s why they get gittery after they start eating candy from Trick-or-Treating on Halloween night..
Colt9033 about 14 years ago
Lance should it instead of the drugs, surger least not seen as performance enhacing inreal life.
lewisbower about 14 years ago
Sugar does that? Coffee does that? Why do those guys in blue with loaded guns spend the night at the doughnut shop?
Larry Miller Premium Member about 14 years ago
Back when I owned donut shops, we’d forget to charge the cops for their coffee and donuts. I was ticket-proof at the time.
Larry Miller Premium Member about 14 years ago
This is drifting from the comic even more, but even years after the donut shops, I was going home late one night after running club and rehydrating at the local brewpub. Exiting a small town that liked ticket revenue so much they had weird speed limits because they’d found a loophole in the law and got to keep more money.
I sped up to the past town speed limit a little early and there was the town cop sitting in a place I’d never seen him before.
There I sat, sure I smelled of beer. The cop alternating his flashlight from my license to my face and back. Finally he said, “Why you’re LafinLarry! I remember you from the Donut Shop. Don’t do that any more.” And I didn’t.
jtviper7 about 14 years ago
Roger Clemens testified before Congress in February 2008. Simon Bruty/SI
WASHINGTON (AP) – Roger Clemens was vehement: “Let me be clear. I have never taken steroids or HGH,” he told a House committee in 2008. Now, instead of the Hall of Fame, baseball’s seven-time Cy Young winner could go to prison after being indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for allegedly lying to Congress.
The case writes a new chapter in one of baseball’s worst scandals, the rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs in the 1990s and early 2000s, and leaves Clemens’ legacy in jeopardy.
The six-count indictment alleges that Clemens obstructed a congressional inquiry with 15 different statements made under oath, including denials that he had ever used steroids or human growth hormone.
Former Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, the top Republican on the House panel at the time of Clemens’ testimony, called it “a self-inflicted wound.”
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/08/19/clemens.perjury/index.html#ixzz0yTaX8dIi
dsom8 about 14 years ago
Cops in donut shops are somewhat like aspirin in your medicine cabinet. It’s there because you want it when you need it, but you don’t use it continuously. We want emergency services available when needed, but thankfully don’t need them all the time. I’m grateful for law enforcement personnel who help keep us safe, and respond when trouble occurs. If they have the opportunity to relax with a cup of coffee, I happy for them.
treBsdrawkcaB about 14 years ago
Hooray for the Policemen that put their lives on the line for the rest of us everyday!! I worked at In-N-Out Burger for my first job back in the 1970’s and it’s still their policy today to give all law enforcement officers 1/2 price on everything. Keeps the cops around and the armed robberies down.
treBsdrawkcaB about 14 years ago
I’m a victim of using performance enhancing sugar in my childhood. I’m now diabetic; must have worn out my pancreas.
Nighthawks Premium Member about 14 years ago
emet, uh….about your answer yesterday….
SWOOOOOOOOOOSH!
that one .damn near took my head off , it went over it so low
Nighthawks Premium Member about 14 years ago
A
lfanterickson about 14 years ago
@colt9033 - I think part of the problem with living to ride is that Lance lost track of real life. How do you not win after winning so much in such a small world?