The 3rd Wednesday Of December Thinking About Fort Worth's Drunk Drivers & Fat People Floating On Ferries In Washington

Looking out my primary viewing portal on the outer world this 3rd Wednesday of the last month of 2011, one day before the start of Winter, it is not too shocking to see what appears to be possible frost on the window.

Not shocking because at the point in time when I looked out the window it was 30 degrees. With the arrival of the sun the outer world has been heated to a balmier 33.

Speaking of the weather, I got an amusingly ridiculous comment, last night, to a blogging from last week, from someone named Anonymous who seems to be obsessed with what s/he perceives to be my weather reports. I think I'll turn that comment into its own blogging, due its wealth of amusing mockworthiness.

Changing the subject to Fort Worth's ongoing attempts to break into any of those ubiquitous Top Ten type lists.

This morning I learned that Fort Worth's plan to increase the number of drunk drivers on its streets via programs like the Trinity River Vision's Rockin' the River Happy Hour Inner Tube Floats, has paid off.

Fort Worth has broken into the Top Ten in a survey of cities with the most Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) citations. San Diego is #1, with the next big city to the north, Los Angeles, coming in in the #2 most drunk spot.

Changing the subject from too much drunk driving, in Fort Worth, to too many FAT people riding the Washington State Ferry fleet.

Apparently the American Obesity Epidemic has forced the Coast Guard to change the passenger capacity of Washington Ferries.

The former Coast Guard calculations were based on the average passenger weighing in the 140 - 160 pound zone. In 2011 the average passenger weighs 185.

So, a ferry, like the Yakima, which formerly had a 2,000 passenger capacity, has been reduced to 1,783.

Washington currently has the highest obesity percentage of the West Coast states. It is no where near the Texas level of obesity, but still, Washington has gotten a lot FATTER since I moved to Texas. I do not believe there is any causal relationship.

Two Fort Worth Police Officers Fired By Fort Worth's Hottest Male For Driving While Intoxicated

That is a Fort Worth Police Officer, Evangelin G. Carr, in the picture, resisting arrest by Keller police after he failed a field sobriety test on August 18.

The picture was taken by the dash-cam video cop camera. The video shows Carr resisting arrest when the Keller police attempted to handcuff him. Over and over again Carr is heard saying he does not want to lose his job.

Yesterday, Fort Worth Police Chief, Jeffrey Halstead, fired Officer Carr, saying, "Officer Carr’s actions and behavior is a discredit to all of the hardworking men and women of the Fort Worth Police Department and will not be tolerated."

E. G. Carr's criminal case is pending.

The second Fort Worth Police Officer fired yesterday was P. Payton (first name not disclosed). Payton was found guilty of the Class B Misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated on September 21. Payton was arrested in North Richland Hills on January 25, driving drunk while off duty.

On a totally different, yet somewhat related note. This week's annual Best of 2009 edition of Fort Worth Weekly, in the People & Politics section, in the Hottest Local Celebrity (Male) category, picked the aforementioned Fort Worth Police Chief Jeff Halstead as the Hottest Local Male, saying...

"His good looks are on the rugged side, but in his mid-40s, Fort Worth's current chief can still turn some heads. So nice that staying fit is part of the job. And humility has its own charm, of course: Halstead started out making excuses and sounding defensive after the Rainbow Lounge incident, but when evidence showed officers had been in the wrong, he backtracked convincingly. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that a cop beat him up when he was 19. Ah, there's more allure: a man with a past."