Texas Law & Order Poor Bastard Says...."Click it or Ticket!

Talk about a Cluster-F-k of Poor Bastards.....The Austin American-Statesman is reporting that a Round Rock, TX (trendy techno-suburb of Austin) police officer issued a traffic ticket on Tuesday of this past week to the 10 year old passenger of a car being driven by his 19 year old aunt, Ashley Arredondo!

Poor Bastards throughout the Kingdom will sleep better tonight knowing that Law & Order Poor Bastards, like the Texas lawman who issued 10 year old Marshall May a "click it or ticket" citation for improper use of his seat belt, are vigilantly patrolling the highways and byways of America....The 4th grader is seen here displaying the traffic citation issued to him by an unnamed Round Rock, TX policeman and Law & Order the Poor Bastard, who apparently was not aware that under Texas law you cannot issue a traffic citation to a ten year old...

 As it turns out, the 4th grader and soon-to-be Poor Bastard had committed the heinous offense of not wearing his seat belt "properly"....a situation that was brought to the attention of the unnamed Law & Order Poor Bastard when he observed the young Poor Bastard In Training sticking his head out of the window of a moving car to get some fresh air.

Normally under such circumstances the driver of the vehicle would be issued a citation, but for some unexplained reason this Round Rock, TX Law & Order Poor Bastard chose to issue the ticket to 10 year old Marshall May instead of Marshall's 19 year old aunt and Poor Bastardette Ashley Arredondo.

As it turns out Texas law does not recognize a 10 year old as the responsible party in this instance, instead holding the driver responsible for the offense.....A minor oversight that our Law & Order Poor Bastard apparently wasn't aware of at the time.

After the story made the local news it quickly became cannon fodder for Austin area talk radio jocks, resulting in much embarrassment to the Round Rock Police Department, the City of Round Rock and interim City Manager Robert Powers, who has indicated that the ticket will likely be dismissed and written off as just another nonsensical Cluster-F-k of Poor Bastard Stupidity!

On the Scale of Poor Bastard Intelligence, originally developed by the High Council of The Fraternal Order of the Poor Bastard, to gauge the relative stupidity of elected officials and Celebrity Poor Bastards, these three characters are ranked as follows; starting with the least stupid of the three-

1) 10 year old  Marshall May - the heinous offender, who was cited for sticking his head out the window of a moving car...Hey, he's 10 years old and entitled to at least one such mistake before earning an official christening as a Poor Bastard.

2) 19 year old Ashley Arredondo - Marshall's aunt and the driver of the car in which the young Poor Bastard in Training was a passenger...Should have known better than to let a passenger in her car stick their head out the window; especially a 10 year old kid. Automatically qualifies as a Poor Bastardette for this display of genetic stupidity.


3) Unnamed Round Rock, TX policeman who issued the citation - Automatically labeled with the title Law & Order Poor Bastard for his colossal display of bad judgment and ignorance of the law, which has made a laughing stock out of the Round Rock Police Department; thanks in part to the efforts of local talk radio jocks.

In the case of interim City Manager, Robert Powers, the High Council has decided to issue a one-time No Harm, No Foul Poor Bastard's Reprieve - sort of a Poor Bastard's get out of jail free card - due to uncertainty over the exact role Powers may or may not have played in this Poor Bastard's Cluster-F-k....