Thursday, October 20, 2005

Tom DeLay's Mug Shot Sucks

A web site somehow affiliated with Court TV, the smoking gun, takes pride in posting all the mug shots they can find of famous or infamous people. Usually the people look really messed up or at least upset at being booked and they have the sign held up that says they're in the so and so police department so you know it's a mug shot.

Tom DeLay's mug shot is none of these things. This looks like a fucking head shot that he would put on his web site so people would know how great he is. He's not even holding the sign up that says he's being booked. This is a sorry excuse for a mug shot.

He's got his suit and tie on and he's all happy to be there. This isn't a partisan issue. Mug shots just need to deliver a shot of someone at their most embarrassed, most drugged out, or most intense moment. This isn't any of that. The Houston police should be ashamed of themselves.

Comments:
Good Lord, what are you talking about? The purpose of a mugshot isn't to humiliate the accused. Where on earth did you come by that foolish notion? Many people are dragged in there and don't look their best due to the circumstances of their arrest, but that is merely incidental, it's not the Point of the whole endeavor.
 
Dude, he needs to be:

(1) against that background with the inches in height behind him

(2) behind a black board with white movable type saying his ID number
 
JDepps, I think you've missed the point of my post.

Obviously it's not the explicit point of a mug shot to humiliate the perp. I think I was being facetious. That was my intention, anyhow.

It's silly when you have to explain that you're joking.
 
Very nice site! here
 
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