I reread The Landmark in preparation for my column this week. I did a doubletake on a story and even texted Foley to make sure I was reading this correctly.
The Platte County Sheriff’s Office has now moved into a 39,000 +/- sf building. That’s a lot of policing. That is nearly an acre of indoor space and roof to go with it. You guys ever paid to replace an acre of roof? Me neither.
Can you imagine the heating and cooling costs? Mind you, this is not the jail or dispatch operations, this is just the operations side of things, the jail expansion is just a few studies away from being expanded itself.
A “glass half full person” would say, “yes, but they repurposed an existing building.”
A “glass half empty person” would say, “the maintenance costs will be incredible.”
You be whichever you choose, we can still be friends.
This reminded me of a throwback photo I saw recently. It was a picture of newly purchased Jet Ski/wave runner that the Platte County Sheriff’s Department had procured in the 1980s or so in their efforts to continue to expand their crime fighting capabilities. Does anyone have the stats on how many criminals were apprehended via Jet Ski in the 80s? I’d be interested. Do they still have Jet Skis and if so, do they store them inside, or probably need to build a new place to store them. Maybe there’s room near the football field sized office in Kansas City.
Honestly, if you are unlucky enough to get arrested tooling down the Missouri River, you deserve to sit in jail for a while. The odds must be extremely low. I would also like to know the maritime laws regarding who can arrest you out there. What if you keep it on the Kansas side of the river? Does Platte County have to call in Leavenworth cops that have a Jet Ski? I suppose Supreme Court will settle such matters eventually, whenever they run out of Trump appeals.
Somebody email Zahnd and get an opinion on this, especially if you’re headed out for a little noodling.
I have never been noodling. I’ve rarely fished with a pole in my life and don’t think catching one with my hands is in the cards before I leave this earthly home. Seems like a lot of trouble, when you can just run by Red Lobster and save yourself all the mess and avoid getting chased by a Jet Ski riding cop.
Speaking of Red Lobster, I read they might be going broke and declaring bankruptcy. I don’t want to brag, but I took my wife there on our first date. I was kind of a big roller in my younger days. I guess all those free biscuits did them in. Maybe Trump can fix it.
Anyway, it will be a personally sad day for us if Red Lobster closes. Be hard to ever top the romance from a night at the St. Joseph Red Lobster, but we’ll keep trying.
Speaking of romance, I had intended on attending the Lincoln Days celly in Weston last week, but I never got around to chipping in my cash to the Republican platform. United States Senator Hawley was the special guest.
I got a kick out of some of the news coverage. Fox 4 television utilized the January 6th infamous Hawley fist up photo in announcing the event. I suppose there is a chance he’ll get indicted for being an insurrectionist if they keep throwing that photo up there.
The pics indicate it was a packed house (standing room only based on the observed perspiration on most of the old white guys’ bald heads). If you are still on Team Tony, you’ll be glad to know Platte County’s Tony Luetkemeyer was front and center with Hawley and the photos just scream that the Republicans are not going to be shy about hitting the polls this November.
(Guy Speckman can be reached dining at Red Lobster and perusing Lincoln Day photos)
