46-Year-Old Jailed 32nd Time on Wednesday

Why do we bother with pot charges? So what if people POSSESS it? I realize it's not legal (for now) but what does it hurt? Seriously? Now if you're selling it, I can see that being illegal... no sense in dragging other people into your pot induced haze. But these DWI m'fers out there who endanger the lives of others by aiming their 4-wheeled weapons at innocent families and stepping on the gas.... that's NOT OK! Yet, here we are... arresting them, and letting them go... and arresting them again... wasting time and money. This guy is NOT going to learn his lesson. (this is totally a rant, and I need to stop because I'm so mad I can't even think straight.)

Why is ok to posses pot? Aren't you possessing it to consume it, much like the individual who posses and consumes alcohol? It's illegal for a reason, as is drinking & driving and those who break the law should be dealt with accordingly. Sounds like our great judicial system has overlooked Mr. Crocker. Stuff will hit the fan when this man hurts someone.

As the district attorney declared last week. Tom green county will not tolerate consistent bad behavior. As soon as law enforcement sees Crocker's behavior be pattern forming, they will throw the book at him. He probably only has a dozen or so chances left.

On that note, Favian... dinner's on me. You rock.

Lol thanks JD

Gayle, many psyche meds and sleeping aids are NOT to be taken while driving or using heavy machinery -- yet people do it all the time with immunity. If weed is "illegal for a reason", please tell me which reason this is. Surely it's not safety, as substances are used all the time which are dangerous to the user as well as everyone in their immediate area. The stuff people are medicating themselves with for things like "anxiety disorders" (or shyness, as we once knew them as), are putting us at risk daily. Look at a someone on Xanax or Prozac and then a person who smoked a joint, then tell me which between the two is better suited to drive. Xanax has side effects like labored breathing, blurred vision, phantom pains/sensations, memory problems and dizziness -- all of which can inebriate a person behind the wheel. Certainly, the psyche patient may be involuntarily twitching at nothing and on the verge of vomiting blood before he plows his car into yours, but at least he didn't have a ziplock'd plant in his pocket with the heaviest burden in his mind being his lack of soda and chips. Right?

And Lares... buddy... your dinner's on me too. Let's go out!

I hope we get to see when this guy hits the same amount of jail times as his age. It shouldn't take much longer. He only needs 14 more which after 32 times I have no doubt he can DO it!

I'm not buying it. At the age of 46, he's a grown man - capable of making his own decisions. If he is, in fact, crying out for help, then he KNOWS he needs a form of rehab and is capable of checking himself in. If he is, in fact, crying out for help, something leads me to believe that if it's the cops that force him into rehab then he's waiting on someone else to foot the bill for that treatment. LAME! There are too many people in life who know right from wrong and stay out of trouble for the most part. This guy doesn't deserve to be in jail, getting 3 hots and a cot on the taxpayer dime. He's also not dangerous to society for being picked up on public intoxication charges, alone. So it looks like all the system is doing is making him pay his dues for being a menace to society. $1000 here, $500 there... eventually he won't be able to pony up the money and he'll have to ride it out in his behind bars detox.

Let's all join hands and gather around this criminal and his affected family and sing Cumbaya, shall we?

Karan, (in your opinion) who should pay to rehabilitate this guy? We all know who indeed pays, but are you ok with that? He turned himself into a worthless drunk, that was easy and enjoyable I suppose. Of course the hard part of getting clean, staying out of jail -- that costs money which could be better spent on getting hammered, and requires accountability which isn't at all conducive to a criminal lifestyle. I suppose the only logical thing to do is require others to give a damn....shortly before opening their wallets. I've never been one to discourage useless people from self destructing. I think things may have had turned out fine, had Mr. Crocker resolved to quietly drink himself to death in his own home. However, when these folks stumble out into public, encroach on the lives of others and then expect the community to pick up the tab for their lack of human decency and self control, there's something seriously wrong with this picture.

As far as I can see tat mouty non caring bad eample for children inhumane person needs to understand a little help and compassion can result in letting a reformed rehabilitated man out but I guess if se or someone she cared about were in the same shoes she would rater watch tem kill thereself with there addition get your selfrichious but away from that weed you may also succeed in life but grow up you no feeling numb scull oh and god bless

I can't even...

Karan I suppose it's useless to attempt any kind of sensible discourse with someone who thinks of "judgement" as bad thing and considers 20 years of habitual criminal activity to be "mistakes". I have a few ideas with what we could do with career criminals and the panhandling human filth, but being the masochistic lapdogs who we've (collectively) become, we'd sooner preserve and coddle the criminal to our own detriment than effectively do away with them. Take a look around town, or in the news Karan. There's a seemingly inexhaustible surplus of dangerous felons, drunks, addicts and overall useless excuses for human beings who are thriving at the expense of decent, productive citizens. The "forgive and forget/turn the other cheek" philosophy has transformed many sections of this country into cesspools. You, with your bleeding heart and your "guy upstairs" are clearly winning.

OK folks. I recommend some of you return to the grammar books and brush up on your "English". I can't understand half the posts here because they are written in text-ese or downright illegible. Your credibility is lost when nobody can read what the heck you're trying to say. Remember, words mean stuff!

I think Barbara's comment was great...haha (if one can figure what she said)

I happen to know this guy. MANY people have tried over the 10 years that I've known him to get him to quit drinking and doing drugs. It hasn't happened. And most that I know of that have tried to get him to seek help have come to the conclusion that he will not stop until he is dead or gets behind the wheel of a vehicle drunk and gets sent to prison. Sad but true.

Okay, this is like the pot calling the kettle black. Are you serious? To begin with, if a person doesn't want help they are not going to get it, no matter how much you spend of our hard earned tax dollars to give it to them. Joe Blow, I agree with you. They post an almost incomprehensible comment and expect everyone to know what they are saying. Proper english would make is so much easier to understand....lol. Although it would be too much like right. RB, you are right, our society has become one of not having to take responsibility for our own actions. Karen, you are just as self-righteous as the best of them so quit being a pot. Favian, Lares.....keep telling it like it is. JD....I cannot believe you are speechless I was looking forward to your comments, although we don't always agree you tell it like it is, as well. LOLOLOLOLOL

karan, may I recommend the following website? http://www.talkenglish.com/Speaking/listbasics.aspx

So sorry, Karan, but the textbook spelling of the name is Karen. I did not mean to make you cry, mercy you do put way too much time and emotion into these things. You might want to go to the doctor as I am sure your blood pressure is way up there. Maybe he can also prescribe something to lower you animosity to everyone who doesn't agree with your way of thinking and believing. You have proven most everyone's points with your ranting and raving. ROFLMAO

Of course he was released!

You can lead a human to knowledge, but you can't make him think. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. You have nothing to worry about. And now for a great recipe to ease everyone's mind... Easy Alphabet Soup: Ingredients 2 ½ cup chicken broth or good quality canned broth (625 ml) ¾ cup dried Alphabet pasta or other short-type pasta (175 ml) 1 14 oz can pureed plum tomatoes or 1 ½ cups tomato sauce 1 Tbsp tomato paste, for a thicker soup (15 ml) 1 tsp dried Greek oregano, optional (5 ml) ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese, or to taste (60 ml) Coarse salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste Directions 1. Over high heat, bring chicken stock in a saucepan to a boil. Add pasta and cook until a little tender but still firm, about 5 minutes. Add tomato puree, tomato paste and oregano, if using. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in parmesan cheese. Season soup with salt and pepper to taste. Serve. For a more simple soup, just separate the letters (A, B, C, etc). Save the rest for more complicated soup. Source: http://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipe/easy-alphabet-soup/5857/

I've got a terminal illness, too... it's called life. Everyone dies from it, eventually. So pick up your brain tumor sob story and move on. When you throw out your comments, as ignorant as they may be, then you open yourself up to criticism and you better be prepared to take it, lady... because this here is the wolf's den. I've yet to meet anyone on here who will coddle the weak.

As I said, Karan, you are a pot. You are judgemental and as rude as any one out here. You went off on every one else but when someone calls you on it you get all upset. I did not say a thing about you being sick. I said your blood pressure must be way up there as mad as you get when someone says something you don't like. You can put everyone else down but don't let them call you on the way you are acting or you will call them evil. As I said, it is like the pot calling the kettle black. You want to blast everyone out there but, heaven forbid, if they respond to your blasting. By the way, learn to spell. I won't call you evil but I think you are very judgemental and if you don't want anyone to respond when you go blasting, keep your mouth shut. Otherwise, learn to take it.

I get so distracted about the misuse of "are" in Karan's posts that I can't concentrate on the subject.

She "should of" used "or"... :-P

Wow!Talk about some unnecessary BS, look I will not promise perfect or even close to correct spelling,and I'll do my best to not use disrespectful language. Reading through everyone's posts and replies makes me curious enough to ask all of you, how many if any, of you have or have ever had a close family member who has proven to be as faulty a person such as our person of interest, Thomas Crocker? I ask this because it's far easier to make a judgmental call against a person we haven't met or known well enough socially, then it is to do so towards someone like perhaps our own spouse. Lets say after a struggle filled 15 years of marriage. I can see plenty of faults that are easy enough to recognize within all of the posts and replies I've read through this controversy caused by a person who for one, doesn't have a clue nor would he care if he did know, about all the things people feel and say about what he does and will obviously continue to do. Personally I have in my fairly young life seen more than a few persons in the shape ole Thomas is in and even some worse. Did they all ever reach a crossroad where they finally chose another direction? Sure, and a few even without being pressured into it. If your wondering what the heck your tax dollars cover for a person in assisted recovery facilities, both in and out patient, why not ask someone who has experience in what the system offers for someone who has a chemical dependency ? And ask them what if anything, did they most benefit in learning what was being taught? There are recovery addicts who could teach you all a few things about that which you seem to believe you have so much clear knowledge of. The way it appears to me, most folks would just as well grip about a subject that is one with an already tarnished reputation, to stand upon a soapbox all their own , and grandly complain about their tax dollars being spent and wasted on nonsense such as the diseased drug and alcohol dependents while obviously all other tax dollars are being spent so wisely.

Spell/grammar check complete; intelligible message received: PASS! ;-P You've bring up some valid points. I would argue most, if not all of us, have no idea what it's like to undergo a chemical dependency. While there are programs out there to help, at the end of the day, it takes willpower on the part of the dependent to change. Given the nature of our judicial and penal system, it's very hard to recover once your down. On top of this, recovering requires a sound form of support from friends, family, coworkers and the general public. On the flip side, the grievances echoed by many in this, and other forums, is justified to a point. When someone lands in jail for the 32nd time, there is clearly something wrong with the guy. While he may have issues, they need to be addressed - something he clearly will not/cannot do. It is a shame that we are paying tax dollars to a system that does nothing to affect this guy's behavior. We are throwing away our money on someone that will continue down this path for the rest of his life - that's certainly not fair to the public. While I certainly don't claim to have the answer, I would argue a LONG prison term would be a start. For one, it would prohibit access to any drugs, and maybe (but I question this), he will have access to therapists and programs to help him kick the habit. It's a shame to see someone wasting away like this, but there has to be recourse for this behavior, otherwise our concept of civility and justice is thrown out the window. As for tax dollars, I can't name one program the government has established that doesn't waste tax dollars. Maybe that's what folks should focus on instead of how popular our elected leaders are. But that's another topic for another day...