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Flick: Pelo 'only kidding' about being jail bad-boy
By Bill Flick
bflick@pantagraph.com
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BLOOMINGTON -- It sounds as if Jeff Pelo, the ex-Bloomington police sergeant convicted last month of sexually assaulting four women, isn’t having a good time outside of the courtroom, either. | Read more Flick

After being called a “model” prisoner by officials through the first two years of jail, suddenly seven reports on Pelo’s stay have surfaced in recent “county jail event reports.”

One indicates a spoon from his dinner tray was missing after a meal.

It could not be found, even after Pelo was forced to undergo a strip search.

A follow-up “shakedown” of the “female process cell” reaped no wayward spoon, either.

Thus, one Jeff Pelo dinner spoon apparently is still at-large.

In another “event” report, as the handcuffed Pelo was being escorted back to his cell by two officers, one of whom was armed with a Taser device, Pelo is quoted as saying, “Being treated like this makes me think I should do something violent to at least deserve this treatment.”

One of the officers then suggests, “Violence is never good.”

To which Pelo responds, “Well, being passive hasn’t done anything for me, so why should I be?”

There was, according to the report, a pause in the conversation before Pelo added, “I am only kidding.”

But doc ... : Doctors are always looking out for us.

For instance, there is Dr. Pete Weber of Olney, who was leafing through an advertising flyer for Rural King, a popular downstate department store like Farm and Fleet, when suddenly he became highly alarmed by a sale item in its hunting supplies section for a “Universal 32-Piece Bun Care Kit .”

As points out the good doctor, after looking at the ad (pictured), “You will notice the universal bun care kit has several brass wire brushes which I would think very painful.”

Let us pray: It may be home of the legendary slogan — “Just like a Good Neighbor …” — but like any other city, Bloomington-Normal has some folk who aren’t exactly acting like that.

In one near-east-side neighborhood as an example, a neighborly feud has escalated to the point where one homeowner reportedly called in a surveyor, discovered he owned half of his neighbor’s driveway, painted a yellow line down the middle of it and spiked his newfound “half” of the driveway with nails.

Sure enough, the neighbor’s car developed a flat.

Police point out, however, that even if probably not overly friendly, a homeowner has a right to lace his own driveway with nails.

The (Star)buck stops here?: All those stories about how a flagging economy is causing folk to cut back on life’s excesses?

Here, too, apparently.

Word out at the Constitution Trail Centre at Raab and Main in Normal is that Starbucks, the Seattle java behemoth, is blaming food and gas prices for a 28 percent drop in earnings and has shelved plans for several new stores, including one originally slated for the Centre.

De-caffeinated now, you could say.

Not fore-(lorn): In Bloomington-Normal, you root for the home team.

For instance, during a recent Signature Cup golf competition at The Den at Fox Creek, golfers were looking for a lost ball in some high grass off a fairway that neighbored a home along the course, at which point the homeowner came out and asked the golfers, two representing the Bloomington-Normal team and the other two opposing Decatur, whose ball they were looking for.

“Decatur’s,” one of the golfers said.

That’s when the homeowner, without saying a word, simply turned around and walked back into his house.

Today’s deep thought

As mulled by Greg Bilbrey, of Robinson:

“Does Jesse Jackson’s comment about Barack Obama mean we need to add politics to the list of activities for which you should wear a cup?”

Contact Bill Flick at flick@pantagraph.com. The Flick Blog: www.pantagraph.com/blogs

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Note: All views and opinions expressed in reader comments are solely those of the individual submitting the comment, and not those of the Pantagraph or its staff.

Sara wrote on Jul 19, 2008 3:57 PM:

" It's technically ok to spike your own property with nails... but, if someone trespasses on your property and gets hurt, you can still be liable for any harm done. So, while I can feel for the property owner who newly discovered his property line, just be very careful in what you do these days. You can get sued for anything! "

Stoney wrote on Jul 19, 2008 7:22 AM:

" "Today’s deep thought"

Makes you wonder who footed the bill to get Jesse Jackson shipped out of the country. People that contribute money to Barack Obama are getting an added bonus. "

Zeva wrote on Jul 18, 2008 9:46 AM:

" If I smoked weed I swear some of these people would be my friends. What is wrong with people anymore, is it in the water??? "
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