Posted on 10/10/2004 10:43:32 AM PDT by Rightliner.com
BURLINGTON, Iowa -- A psychiatrist made a stink over paying a parking ticket, using dirty money to cover the fine.
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Police say Ronald Preston McPike has been charged with harassment of a public official for smearing excrement on dollar bills used to pay the ticket.
McPike, 52, pleaded not guilty to the charge, a misdemeanor, and was released on $125 bond pending a Dec. 8 court appearance. He was arrested Sept. 30 at his office in Burlington.
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Officers received an envelope in July labeled "Foreign brown substance on bills." The envelope contained several dollar bills and a parking ticket made out to a vehicle registered to McPike, police said.
Tests indicated the brown substance was fecal matter and indicated the stain patterns resulted from feces being smeared on the bills.
"All personnel that dealt with the bills were offended by what the defendant did," an affidavit said.
McPike told police the money fell into a toilet and was retrieved to pay the ticket, police said.
If convicted, McPike could face up to 30 days in jail and a fine of up to $500.
Send the shrink to a shrink. Heehee...
A practical joker deserves applause for his wit according to its quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling. But staking out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest.
by Robert Anson Heinlein
PRACTICAL JOKES
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job-lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.
- Mark Twain
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