WTF Wednesday.........Because stupid doesn't just happen on Tuesday.

I'm kind of partial to catchy post titles. Fast Eddie Friday, Stoopid Twosday, Manic Monday, you get the drift. As fond as I am of catchy titles, I'm even more fond of stupidity, regardless of the day of the week. Some might accuse me of needing to tear people down to build up my own self esteem, a bloggy type vampire or something. Feeding on the misfortune and poor judgement of my victims. I like to think of myself as the blogosphere equivalent of Don Rickles, scanning the audience for that perfect schmuck to bear the brunt of my ridicule. Either way, I could never pass over a good punchline.


Case in point. Two Leawood knuckleheads got lost in the Grand Canyon. They were only lost for a day, thanks to an overbearing Jewish mother of one of the hikers. Oy Vey. While most of you saps might look at this story and see two 25 year old adventurers who narrowly escaped being eaten by mountain lions, or succumbing to the elements, I see things differently. I see a Johnson county version of Harold and Kumar. Isaac Rabicoff and Michael Wu, of Leawood, were found, safe and sound at the bottom of the canyon near a spot called Royal Arch on Tuesday afternoon.
Rabicoff's mother delivers the money quote, "He didn't call Sunday, I thought maybe he got too tired and didn't call," mother Bonnie Rabicoff told KMBC. "As a Jewish mother, I didn't want him to do this. 'Why can't you go on a normal trail like normal people? You'll still see beautiful things,'" his mother said.
I like to picture these two hikers from the Metros most affluent area as two stoners, wondering around, totally out of their element, searching for a Starbucks or a Crate and Barrel outlet. Maybe they were all whacked out on Peyote, talking to Jack Rabbits and Mountain Goats. Sadly the truth is usually less fantastic. They bit off a little more than they could chew, one of them sprained an ankle. They were flown to safety. On the bright side, these two intrepid explorers will live to see a future of cutting off regular working stiffs on Johnson drive while sipping soy lattes and looking important in their Beemers.

While truth doesn't hold a candle to my version of the Grand Canyon story, sometimes the truth is better than anything I can make up. Lekiesha Jackson, 32, was arrested on suspicion of child neglect on Sunday night after police officers say that they found two young children playing outside the home in 3400 block of Montgall at 11:30 p.m. The police version goes like this. Two cops spot a couple of kids playing catch in the middle of the night. They ask them what they are doing out, and take them home. When they arrive, Mom is nowhere to be found. The cops find 6 kids ranging in age from 11 down to 1 year old. According to police, the officers followed the children back to their home, where they found four other children, ages 1 through 11, hungry, dehydrated and living in squalid conditions. Police say that the children told the officers that their mother had left two days earlier and had not returned. Sad stuff. The cops go buy 6 happy meals and wait for mom to arrive. The police report says there was no food in the house, there was animal feces on the floor, the kids were , dirty , dehydrated, and at least one was wearing an overloaded diaper. Normally this would be where I berate Lekiesha for being a shitty mother and a piss poor human being. Thankfully, she did an interview, so I'll let her speak for herself.

"I had made a run to go get my books," said Jackson. "I had homework I needed to do and turn in on Monday."

Jackson says that the allegations that the children had been staying in a filthy home was hard for her to hear.

"And you know what, I'm listening to that and I wonder how is it that my kids can go to school everyday and, if they're living like this, someone's going to see something," said Jackson. "It's not true. It's just not true.

She did the KCTV 5 interview on her front porch, even though inviting the crew to do the interview in her house could have squashed that false police report. And really, kids have no concept of time, so two days , two hours, kids can't tell the diff. And who hasn't run out to get school books at 11:30 at night? I'm sure all of us have left 6 kids, the oldest being 11, at home alone, to make a book run. seriously, what could go wrong? Ms. Jackson originally told the cops she didn't have gas money, and got stranded in the snow. The cops reported smelling a little booze on her breath as well. But you know how the cops are always targeting single moms. I think the last few lines from KCTV 5 pretty much clear things up.
Jackson claims that the entire incident has been blown out of proportion, and she says that the police are targeting her because she's a young, single mother with seven children.

"No, I don't think they had my children's best interest in mind, no I don't," said Jackson. "Because I'm my children's best interest. Because no one is going to fight for them like me. No one's going to love them like me."


Awwww, now if that doesn't give you a big Old Yeller type lump in your throat, I don't know what will. It's fine upstanding Mothers like Lekiesha Jackson who instill my faith in human kind.
stay classy Lekiesha Jackson, you just beat out a Jewish Leawood lady as the first annual
Midtown Miscreant Mother O' the Year !!!!!!!