Collateral damage

July 11, 2009
By Billy Dennis

This is what we are up against folks. From the Journal Star:

Orlando D. Foster, 24, of 3018 W. Seibold St. was calm and unemotional during the hearing, prompting Peoria County Circuit Judge James Shadid to inquire if he was bored. Foster said no, but later, as Shadid was wrapping up the 10-minute hearing, he asked Foster if he was upset that a 7-year-old child had been shot during the July 7, 2008, incident near the Shop Rite, a store on Lincoln Avenue.

Foster replied calmly, “It just happened.”

Not the slightest bit of empathy.

But here’s the good news. Young Mr. Foster is probably only going to have to serve less than three years of his seven year sentence. Unless something just happens to him in prison.

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4 Responses to “ Collateral damage ”

  1. John Q. Taxpayer on July 11, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    “Unless something just happens to him in prison.”
    Borderline incitement there. Reminds me of that Monty Python episode…

    Luigi: (looking round office casually) You’ve… you’ve got a nice army base here, colonel.
    Colonel: Yes.
    Luigi: We wouldn’t want anything to happen to it.
    Colonel: What?
    Dino: No, what my brother means is it would be a shame if… (he knocks something off mantel)
    Colonel: Oh.
    Dino: Oh sorry, colonel.

  2. Billy Dennis on July 11, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    Oh, bullshit.

    I’m not asking for anything to happen. I’m just noting the potential for irony.

  3. John Q. Taxpayer on July 11, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    Luigi: How many men you got here, colonel?
    Colonel: Oh, er … seven thousand infantry, six hundred artillery, and er, two divisions of paratroops.
    Luigi: Paratroops, Dino.
    Dino: Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them.
    Colonel: Set fire to them?
    Luigi: Fires happen, colonel.
    Dino: Things burn.

  4. BJStone on July 12, 2009 at 11:47 am

    “This is what we are up against folks.”

    Who is the “we” that you speak of? I’m not “up against” anything here. This guy thinks he’s a tough guy, and many of those who support conceal carry (which is what this post is about, isn’t it?) will then think they, too, are “tough guys” if they’re allowed to have heat strapped to the inside of their belt.