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WCDT Strips 3311 - 3315 (Sept 19th - 24th)

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Neko_Ali:
The police would not come in and just haul Corpse Witch away and leave the criminal enterprise she was running though.  The same that they don't just arrest the person in charge of animal fighting rings and leave the rest to keep operating. Yes, those who are not there or manage to get away usually restart the same thing in a different location. But again, that wouldn't help the fighters who live and work at the park. Officer Lilac may have specified she was looking into AI rights violations and exploitation. But she also indirectly said the police knew about the fight club and deliberately turned a blind eye. If they did have a reason to go after the fight club, they have to take it all in, otherwise they themselves are implicit in the crimes committed there.

Up until the point where someone was arrested they could pass it off as an 'ongoing investigation' or something similar. But they cannot go in, arrest one person and leave the rest of it still running. Plausible deniability only works so long as it is actually you know.. plausible.

Is it cold in here?:
There might not have been a local tip at all. The cops may be working downhill from the "big fish" until they find someone vulnerable enough to turn, at which point they can begin working uphill again.

Or they may be picking low hanging fruit. That's happening in real life in our world, with law enforcement assistance money tied to arrest statistics.

In any case, the underground fight ring is one of those open secrets locally. If there's a human trafficking investigation going on, they have a list of every "skate park" in the state.

Sullivan:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 21 Sep 2016, 23:07 ---Yes, Faye, [...] Your next-door neighbour has a laundry list of psychological issues, is a genius and has absolutely no concept of 'boundaries' when she wants something, even if only as an idle whim.

--- End quote ---

My gf lives in a rural area in eastern Pennsylvania. Apparently the natives consider it completely reasonable to just knock on your door for an unannounced visit. Moreover, if your house has a back door (like a kitchen door), they'll use that (walking all the way around your house, on your property, invading your back yard, instead of using the front door which is just steps from the street). If the kitchen door is unlocked and they know you even moderately well they'll sometimes just let themselves in and say "hi!". I was SO startled the first time I found an unexpected person in the kitchen. I knew the person and knew she was ok to be there, but... damn.

Zastie:
That "Chotto Latte!" shirt.. it needs to become a reality. It can't just be me.. can it? ... Wait a second.. it is a reality. Hallelujah, praise be!

Storel:

--- Quote from: Timemaster on 22 Sep 2016, 09:21 ---I´m a bit at a loss today.
I have never heard of sarsaparilla before. I´m from Germany and that stuff is quite uncommon here and mostly used as an ingredient in homeopatic medicine. So I had to google it. Aunt Google told me about a softdrink flavour and about some kind of root beer.
Is that really common? People make artisanal softdrinks and sell them in casks? Or is this just a joke I´m not getting?
I someone could enlighten me, it would be so kind.
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Yes, sarsaparilla is a real soft drink. According to my mother, it's correctly pronounced "SASS-pa-rilla". (She was a Phi Beta Kappa English major at UC Berkeley, so she was usually pretty trustworthy about pronunciation, but she may have been drawing on her Oklahoma upbringing for that one.)

However you pronounce it, sarsaparilla is part of a family of soft drinks that also includes root beer, birch beer, and cream soda, all of which I think are fairly unknown outside the U.S. Root beer is the most popular one. I believe all of them can actually be brewed like beer, which is why some breweries also produce some of these sodas -- Sprecher brewery in Milwaukee, besides producing a nice beer, also brews root beer and cream soda, for example.

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