Perhaps Not Mayberry...More Like Alice's Restaurant...

I just ask....does these sound even remotely familiar if we just replace the city name with, oh...I dunno....some other city name?

"And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to thequote
Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town ofStockbridge,
Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stopsigns, two police
officers, and one police car, but when we got to theScene of the Crime there
was five police officers and three police cars,being the biggest crime of
the last fifty years, and everybody wanted toget in the newspaper story
about it. And they was using up all kinds ofcop equipment that they had
hanging around the police officer's station.They was taking plaster tire
tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, andthey took twenty seven
eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circlesand arrows and a
paragraph on the back of each one explaining what eachone was to be used as
evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,the getaway, the
northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not tomention the aerial
photography."

For those of you who are scratching your heads right about now, this is from
Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant. I can't help but wonder why citizens would want to try to take matters in their own hands (though I cannot endorse doing so) with such Odie-ish (gulp) law enforcement going on.

Wonder how many houses would burn down in the Mayor's neigborhood or the chief's neighborhood before a patrolman was driving through there like clockwork? Wonder how many gunshots would go on byt their house before a substation was set up there? My guess....not that many. But then again, we're not at Alice's Restaurant...so we can't get anything we want.