Man Calls Cops 'Cause Prostitute Won't Deliver

You call the cops when a crime has been committed, right? Right. But what if you are involved in the crime itself, and you have been, well, given the short end of the stick, so to speak? Can you call the coops then? This guy certainly thought so.

Robert Smith of Manchester, N.H. apparently wasn't satisfied with the services he expected to be, well, rendered, so to speak. So he wanted to lodge a complaint. The problem is that accepting these rendered "services" is in itself illegal, and he practically shot himself in the foot.

Smith paid $150 to prostitute Jeanna Mecure who seems to have promised Smith adult fun with her and a third party. When Smith forked over the money and got not so much as a smooch from Mecure, an obvious breach of contract, well, he did what any good law-abiding citizen would do: He filed a complaint ... with the boys in blue ... the cops.

It goes without saying, but maybe it should be outlined in black and white, so here it is. As a general rule of thumb, don't call the cops to report that something illegal has happened to you while you were doing something illegal yourself. (Not that we are encouraging you to successfully do anything illegal, let's be clear.) But ,if you find yourself on the wrong side of the law and then the wrong side of the law were to happen to you, don't you think it's fair to say that you've made your bed so you should lie in it?

Smith was certainly hoping to lie in a bed Sunday night, but, oh well, that ship has sailed.

Police Policy Comes Up Missing

When should fact trump policy? Jahmeshia Conner’s family wishes it did two weeks ago. Jahmeshia was last seen by her aunt on Nov. 15 when she boarded a bus to go home just seven blocks away. She never made it.

Jahmeshia’s mother thought she stayed with her aunt that night, but when she didn’t come home from school the next day, she called police. Police said they had to wait 48 hours before starting an investigation. Why? Priority missing cases involve children 10 and under. Jahmeshia was 12. Monday, two weeks after her disappearance, Jahmeshia’s beaten and strangled body was found in an alley.

Despite the pleadings of her family that she just did not fit the profile of a runaway, that she was a good child, police followed their Policy. Why no Amber alert? Why classify her as an “endangered runaway?” And the question no one wants to explore: Would Jahmeshia be alive today had she been a “priority” to police? Sadly, we will never know.