Sheriff Doofus
Remember how I used to tell you stories about our sheriff in my county who was so old that he still owed Noah a dollar? And all the weird things that happened when he had an idea?
Well, he finally retired and we doubled down on goofy by electing this guy – Troy Nehls.
Nehls don’t know much about law enforcement and even less about social media. And science, math, the English language, his colors …. pretty much everything.
His office sent out a press release yesterday all excited that they had discovered a mess of credit cards, social security cards, driver’s licenses and wallets at a local picture show theater. The process of discovering these wallets and credit cards – no cash – seems a little sketchy on its own. But, it’s what they did after they discovered them that takes the cake.
The Fort Bend Sheriff’s Office just sent a press release to news outlets all over Texas that revealed the credit card, checking account, Social Security, and driver’s license numbers of hundreds of people. You see, the email contained a photo of these items that were kept in a lost and found room at the Santikos Palladium theaters in Richmond.
A few seconds later, the Sheriff’s Office sent another email saying that, on second thought, maybe that wasn’t such a great idea.
Yeah well, they put it on Facebook, too, asking people to come forward if they know who owns any of these credit cards.
How hard could it be to read the name on a driver’s license and look that up person or go to their home? I’m just saying ….
Thanks, Sheriff, for letting the entire world laugh at Reba Frontage’s, of 2019 Avenue G, Rosenberg, Texas’ driver’s license picture.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
Sheriff Dufus has violated Texas law that restricts intentionally communicating SSNs to the public and/or intentional public posting and display.
He better charge himself with violating the law he swore to uphold. Ignorance of the law is no excuse nor is being ignorant.
1I have never seen an elected official commit or condone such a grotesquely stupid act in my life. Is there no adult supervision in Fort Bend County??? I have in-laws living there. This is important.
2Good thing this guy doesn’t have a job as a detective or anything like that.
I doubt he could find his own butt with both hands and a flashlight. Probably just send out a picture as a press release and ask for the public’s help.
3And not one person suggested that might not be such a good idea?
It’s a regular Keystone Kops Adventure down there in Fort Bend, eh?
4Ooh, I can’t wait for the lawsuits to start rolling in.
5It’s the work of a true communications professional. This guy probably has been reassigned to toilet-cleaning duty in the lockup.
http://www.fortbendcountytx.gov/index.aspx?page=791
6Yep. He’s not the sharpest crayon in the box, nor the brightest.
Just saying……
7Another dumb move. The Bexar County Sheriff (who didn’t know what he jo entailed – Republican) will probably do it, too.
8What an idiot.
I used to work for an events company that put on outdoor concerts and fairs, and found items would be turned in by honest people to the staff in our Info Booth. At one event someone turned in a debit card and someone else turned in a drivers license. I personally took the DL to the police station and the debit card to the bank which had issued it.
DUH!!!
(Of course, Mr Nehls *being* the police would have taken a photo of the DL put it online? Thankfully I’m not in TX!)
9Inbreeding. Gotta be inbreeding.
10Sure explains why doofi like Abbott are hellbent on nullifying local ordinances. If st00pidity is ever declared a felony, the goobers in the GOP will be an endangered species.
11Did he misplace his wife’s uh……landing strip and his toupee?
12@epo
13It is the 4 stars on his epaulette that annoys me more than the landing strip on his head. 🙂 He’s still playing soldier. One of psychologist types hereabouts needs to splain to the group what all that might mean, if it means anything. (I know… sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.)
Awkward. When you have to walk into the sheriff’s office to fill out paperwork about your personal information being divulged. By him.
I’d pay $5 for a video of the followup investigation.
14CSI Fort Bend. Tagline: “See as I” gotta get a clue, might be a tough case to break.
EPO, I think he EXCHANGED them. Got mixed up in the dark!!
15It is slightly off center,isn’t it,Aggieland Liz? Hee-hee. 🙂
16Micr-I was so enraptured with that thing on his head I never even noticed the epaulettes until you mentioned them. Now I have to check them and see if they have their own fur piece. Investigative journalist’s job is never done.
17@Micr, I increased the size of the photo of the doofus and counted 5 stars on the epaulettes, which you must agree is so much more impressive.
18So is he a 5-star idiot?
19@ Hannah-at least.
20@june
21I am impressed in a disgusted sort of way. See the US military sorta retired the 5 stars when Gen ON Bradley passed in 1980 or so. Aside from Gen Bradley only 8 other Americans have legitimately worn 5 stars. They were all big deals at the time, Hap Arnold, Nimitz, Douglas McArthur, etc. Sheriff Troy Nehls isn’t qualified to carry any of the nine’s jock strap. He should quietly take the stars off and never wear them again. A tasteful 7 point badge no more than a couple inches in diameter with his name and office on it should be sufficient. He’s a Sheriff in a State that if it were independent would be the equal of a third world country, not an apex leader in one of the most important militaries in the history of the world.
Wingnuts have long criticized liberal education and critical thinking. This doof is a prime example of wingnuts race to the bottom educational priorities. I think not-therefore, I am not. But I’m fun at parties,duh.
22The sad part is that the voters (those that turned out) of Fort Bend county elected this doofus.
I’m convinced FB county is not really red. It’s just that the wingnuts and doofuses are the ones who turn out to vote.
And I still don’t trust those paperless wonders they call voting machines.
23I cannot say anything that will not raise Momma’s hackles.
24In the words of Homer Simpson: “D’oh!”
25Out of the goodness of her heart, I think JJ should invite Sheriff Nincompoop to the Salon for a complete makeover. I realize JJ is not a magician, but if my hair stylist couldn’t do better than that, I’d just ask him to shave me bald.
On second thought, it’s probably more honest on his part to go about looking just as idiotic as he is — nope, can’t fix stupid.
26Do you suppose that maybe, just maybe, he thought to ask those in charge at the Palladium palace (foolishly supposing someone is, in fact, in charge there) where all these cards and checkbooks came from and how long they had been piling up in the “lost and found room” or wherever they had been found? And what they were planning to do with them, if anything? And why they hadn’t done it yet? Naw. Didn’t happen. Not a chance.
27Does it sound to anyone else like a local pick-pocket visits the local movie palace to dispose of any unwanted leather goods as soon as the folding money has been removed? Granted thieves like selling credit cards these days, but maybe this one is low tech.
28Yeah, ya can’t fix stupid, that’s a proven fact. But this idiot’s dumber than Gov Goodhair who’s dumber than a box of rocks as far as I’ve ever been able to tell.! ;-}
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