I Gotcher Schadenfreude Right Here
Birmingham City Councilor Joel Montgomery, last seen acting like a 13-year-old boy over Valerie Abbott’s inclusion resolution, raised the maturity level to, well, maybe that of a frat boy this weekend. He was busted for public intoxication early Saturday morning after police found him in a Southside parking lot looking like this:
Karma, anyone?
Kudos to Kyle at Mixed Media, who describes the above mugshot thusly: “So that’s what they mean by ’shit-faced’.”
UPDATE: The Birmingham News is reporting that Montgomery was accompanied by an unidentified woman. And Loretta Nall wonders what might have hit him to cause all those lacerations. After hearing about the woman, I’m wondering if his wife caught up with him…
April 7th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Looks like he learned about inclusion by being included in a knife fight (which he lost).
April 7th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I’ve come to believe that holding public office is like drinking a daily spoonful of poison. Maybe it doesn’t kill you all at once, but depending on your personal constitution, you can last only so long.
April 8th, 2007 at 11:18 am
I saw that this morning. His attorney was quoted in the News as saying that he wasn’t a danger to himself or others, but it appears that SOMEONE was a danger to him. Looks like he must have done a nose dive straight into the pavement.
April 8th, 2007 at 11:27 am
We have a little game going on over at my site to try and figure out what Joel got whacked with. I’ve been around him drunk and believe it or not he is more obnoxious than when sober. I know that is hard to believe….but true. Y’all come join the fun and take a swing and what was swung at Joel.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Oh my, he makes Gavin Newsom look saintly.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I believe that his close encounter was with the cobblestones on Cobb Lane. Especially if the news (TV) got his car’s location right.
It took me several minutes to recover enough to explain to my Dad why that story was so very, very funny.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Also, sorry for the double-post, but am I the only one who thinks it’s weird for Spina to keep going on about getting a police response to the 911 call. IIRC, it’s been standard procedure for any 911 call (inside the city limits and I believe JeffCo as well) to include a cruiser for at least 10 years.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Spina’s probably wishing the cops had stayed away, given that Montgomery apparently went all Mel Gibson on them.
Montgomery’s face looks like he tripped over a curb and was too drunk to catch himself, but he reportedly also had contusions on his chest and a cracked vertebra. Maybe he slid?
April 9th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
We watched the local Fox channel (usually dependable about gotcha journalism on elected officials) and there wasn’t a word about the klutzy Mr. M. Hmmm….
April 9th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I still put my money on somebody got a bait of his pie hole and whacked him. I just can’t see a simple drunken fall to the pavement causing all of the injuries he seems to have.
I agree with Tricia…even out here in the boonies of Tallapoosa Co. a cop is always dispatched to 911 calls…I can’t imagine a lawyer being surprised by that.
April 10th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Hey! My comment from yesterday didn’t show up!! Uh-oh, did I say something bad?
April 10th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Sorry, Anna. It didn’t even get to moderation. Must have been a blocked tube in the internets. Feel free to leave it again.
April 11th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Karma.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:21 am
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