After retiring from the Leon County Sheriff's Office, Gil Hoover started Hoover Funeral Escort Services in April, a service that allows a funeral procession in its entirety to safely cross intersections. He said he's "filling a void" by providing a service that the Sheriff's Office and Tallahassee Police Department stopped providing years ago because of cost and liability issues. The two agencies recently agreed to provide escorts for military funerals based on available staffing.
But parents of the Serinas Synchronized Swimming Program's 24 swimmers were able to work out a deal with the city, which had been spending about $12,000 a year to run the program.
O.K. Here we go, There are some things that are true. There are some things that are not so true. And there are some things so absurd as to defy reality and/or explanation:
Yes it is true that that local LEO has stopped providing funeral escorts. However considering that they eat money by providing services to FSU and escorting football players and horses we do not believe they can say honestly it is due to cost. But then we are of the belief that thee is not much of anything they can say honestly. Like when they say, Rachel Hoffmans death was her own fault.
"The two agencies recently agreed to provide escorts for military funerals based on available staffing."
The truth: Leon County Sheriff Campbell has declared that he will make staff available for KIA's at least. Even during Football Games.
Tallahassee Police Chief, the Notorious Dennis Jones, whose department takes a bath sucking up to FSU, has said that they may not be able to provide a Soldier who has given his life for his country an escort home if the military should happen to screw up and send him home in a box, arrival date on FSU football day. O.K. thats not his exact words, but hey how else can they be interpreted. He has yet, despite our constant requests, to publicly state the servicemen come before FSU Football.
And I ain't even going to ask how Tallahassee found $12,000 to finance 24 Synchronized Swimmers?
Who the hell does Serina know that apparently the families of servicemen do not?
Now there are those who have said, give it up rc, your beating a dead horse, they ain't listening. And they may be right.
But even at the expense of becoming a little ol man jumping up and down beating the top of my head against the bottom of a toad stool, if I shut up it means I have retreated, compromised or surrendered.
Those are words I will not eat. If you find them appetizing might I suggest you try the buffet.Add to Technorati Favorites
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