Arizona Justice
So there was this judge in Arizona named Mark Chiles. Chiles went a little nuts and even though a justice of the peace in Arizona make $101,500 a year, he shoplifted a speaker for his iPod from WalMart.
You know, that’s something I never understood. If you’re going to shoplift, don’t shoplift from WalMart. Shoplift from Saks Fifth Avenue, for goodness sake.
Anyway, Chiles blamed health problems at the time of his arrest in May of 2013. He said he was having trouble sleeping and had lots of aches and pain. You know, like all of us do.
So Chiles resigns and moseys on down the road.
Until last week, when he surfaces at the Canadian border.
Markel Kay Chiles, 56, was arrested at the Huntingdon border crossing in British Columbia in May, allegedly carrying a pair of .22-calibre, multi-barrelled handguns: a Texas Defender and a Cobra C22M.
He was charged with gun smuggling.
So I imagine that Canada will call up the Manitoba National Guard, build a wall, and send Sean Hannity to protect them.
By the way, do I even have to tell you what political party this guy is?
Thanks to Elizabeth for the heads up.
Him and his parents should all be arrested for giving him this name: Markel Kay Chiles … who in their right mind would name a kid this: Markel Kay??
Good grief!!
1Marcia–I can’t explain the Markel, but Sir Kay was one of the knights of the round table. Not quite as bad as naming him Sue. Still, I’m with JJ on shoplifting from WalMart–and it’s not as if iPod speakers cost thousands, either.
2Is the right wing now going to start a fuss about the President being anti-American for not personally flying Air Force One to his rescue like they’re doing for Andrew Tahmooress who was arrested for bringing guns into Mexico?
Sorry, but when you attempt to carry weapons across an international border, IT’S A CRIME!!!! If you’re caught, you WILL be arrested and it’s your own damn fault!
3JJ,from your scintillating description of this nutjob I’m gonna guess he belongs to the nutjob party. An Obama appointed federal judge re-opened Fast and Furious so maybe he was gonna plant some evidence of Obama running guns to Canada as well as Mexico.
4djw-that one speaker cost this dimdot over a hundred grand. Yikes!
5OK, you may have heard this before but for one thing I come from a Canadian family and spent some really good, formative time in Ontario. Still have oodles of family there. Canadians view their southern neighbor like a nice, well intentioned elephant that they have to sleep next to. Not with, just next to. Its fine as far as they are concerned but they also pray like mad that the elephant does not turn over in his sleep!! Wack job Yanks really don’t qualify as the turning over while asleep but they do burn Canadian sox. They would prefer that Yanks handle their own problems and not let such stuff drift north over the border.
Secondly, Kay is an old name with a masculine origin all right but it was pronounced Ky to rhyme with Sky or High. It still runs around these days as a surname, McKay.
Third, in a way I do feel sorry for people who have family that stick them with unworkable names. I remember a time when people actually named their newborn babies Howdy Doodie!!
Aaaaacckkkk!!!
6In the 90’s, a guy where I worked made $70K/yr but was caught stealing tools from the fleet garage. He was fired, but the company chose not to prosecute him.
A few months later, he was caught by the local police driving around town nekkid, wearing a woman’s floral hat, while arguing with his invisible passenger.
Last I heard, he was spending time at “a nice place in the country”.
People who steal things when they can afford them always have bigger issues. I guess his is being a guano loco Republican.
7Isn’t Kay an agent in Men In Black? Or short for “OK”? What’s wrong with being named Kay?
8In this case, right wing NUT job rings truer than true.
9Mr. Chiles has some serious issue, not the least of which is prosecution for gun running. He’s looking at more than “time in a nice place in the country”.
If Canadians acted anything like wingnut Texans,we could be talking about a very late and very dead ex-judge from Arizona. And the NRA would be demanding an immediate invasion of our neighbor to the North.
10Those “multi-barrelled handguns” used to be called “derringers.” I understand they were very popular back in the day with card cheats and prostitutes.
11This may be an example of nut job profiling. I’ve crossed into Canada dozens of time and I have never been searched or even delayed significantly.
You just have to answer a few questions, the answer to which is obviously “No Sir.” And then go on about your business. If this guy got singled out for a search, the crazy light behind his eyes must have shone through.
12The Canadians are pretty strict on the “no guns” rule when crossing the border for sure – and I’m glad for that!
BTW, I’m thinking it will likely be the Mounties (RCMP) in BC who will be handling this stupid person as he attempted to bring his weapons into BC rather than Manitoba, one province to the right looking at the map 😉
He actually was taking a small border crossing east of the Peace Arch, the main crossing between WA/BC heading to the Vancouver BC area. I can guarantee that the BC border is well protected due to weed running which also includes gun running at times.
He is now permanently on the “Do Not Enter” list for all for all of Canada 🙂 Guess he will have to go back to AZ and the other crazies!
13For a (former) judge, Markel sure seems to have a lot of trouble figuring out how the law works.
I wonder what he would have said to a defendant with aches & pains, or a smuggler back in the day when he was on the bench?
14I’m glad I don’t drive around with guns. Once I was hauling our three kids, a neighbor kid and a dog to a summer camp in Canada. I’d told the kids about stopping to be inspected by thge border patrol. We drove up, the guy glanced at my license, and said “Go on.” I said aren’t you going to inspect anything? He glanced around in the car and said “Lady, you aren’t smuggling anything.”
15Ralph is on target when he points out that border crossing officers – regardless of nationality – have a real talent for evaluating their customers. My wife and I were driving back to Seattle from Vancouver one Monday, the day after the visiting Bears had decimated the Seahawks. After a few stern questions in which he had determined we lived in the Chicago suburbs, he paused for a bit and then asked, “How about them Bears?” When he saw the instant grin flashing across my face, he chuckled, sent us on our way and wished us a great day.
16Maybe we can petition Canada for an exchange of Ted Cruz for Sir Kay. We could handle a minor dingbat and help our neighbors in Texas dump Ted the Twit. We AZ Dems are all about being neighborly.
17UmptyDump-a word of advice for your Bears. If they want to improve draft some University of Iowa players again. Vikes and Pack each have three very good contributing players. When da Bears won their Superbowl the center and left guard were Iowa Hawkeyes.
18Gramiam, that’s a very sensible and generous offer. But as is often a consideration in trades, we probably need to offer Canada a very generous stipend to allow the Cruz missile to return to Canada.
And, we can forget a sweet deal with Cuba, they already expelled Dumb Dominion, Sr. and are unlikely to want any part of Dimmer the Dominion, Jr.
UmptyDump & e platypus onion, one of the townies near me is a Chicago transplant, great guy and a sports masochist, rooting for the Bears and the Cubs.
19I’m glad that I followed the link because I discovered through another link that a guy from my state (GA) was detained in May of this year and had to serve a 45 day sentence in a Canadian jail. Serves him right. GA is now a “guns everywhere” state, except in the state legislature and the governor’s office. Although the right-wingers controlling the legislature and the governor’s office didn’t think about protecting citizens who are not gun nuts from
20the gun nuts, they did think about limiting their access to them. I hope the Canadian border patrol keeps locking American butts up and handing out jail sentences for breaking their gun laws. They can read the signs/warnings when they approach the border crossing that they have to declare certain items, but since they have an attitude in the U.S. that they can do as they please with their guns, they ignore the warnings. I have a lot of admiration for the Canadian government and its’ citizens for two major reasons. First, it won’t give Rupert Murdoch a license to broadcast his special brand of political stupidity and contaminate the minds of its citizens, and second, for having some form of gun control.
Thank you, Majii!
21It’s probably too late, but I have to tell my border crossing story. In 1994, my husband and I drove from Texas to Winnipeg for the World Science Fiction convention. TX was bidding for the convention and so we had a lot of TX stuff. Not being idiots, we did not take any firearms. My husband was 6’5″, 300+ lbs with a red-headed complexion, literally a red-neck much of the time. We had to pull over and they asked us repeatedly “do you have any guns?” to which we would answer over and over “no”. It seemed like everyone at the crossing was asking us. (The armadillo costume in the back seat may not have helped.) Anyway, they decided to search our stuff. One of them produced a pouch from my stuff with a triumphant gesture and asked (dramatically) “what is this!?” I looked at him, puzzled, and said (as he opened the bag), “my razor”. He gave my electric razor a disgusted look and sent us on our way. As we were repacking our stuff, I suddenly realized that the little bag bore the name “lady remington” and that the shape of my razor with the cord wrapped around it was somewhat suggestive of a pistol. They really didn’t want to believe that we didn’t have some sort of gun.
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