Weeping Neckbeard of Omaha explains his job (kind of)

[Ralph Wiggum]

Omaha Steve (38,326 posts)

2-time child molester sent back to prison for another sex assault



http://www.omaha.com/article/20140128/NEWS/140128634/1685#2-time-child-molester-sent-back-to-prison-for-another-sex-assault

Published Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 1:00 am / Updated at 2:10 pm

By Todd Cooper

A two-time child molester will spend the next 15 to 20 years in prison under a sentence handed down Tuesday.

Douglas County District Judge Joseph Troia sentenced Harold Shipley Jr. to 30 to 40 years in prison – a term that is cut in half under state sentencing guidelines.

The 51-year-old Shipley had pleaded no contest to attempted sexual assault of a child for contact he had with a 7-year-old neighbor girl. He faced up to 50 years in prison – or 25 years real time.

Prosecutor Molly Keane, a deputy Douglas County attorney, had urged the judge to give Shipley the maximum term.

FULL story at link.

I work for the Omaha Police Dept as an IST. The child victim unit deserves praise for their work every single day.

Common Sense Party (13,680 posts)
1. IST? What is that?

I don't think these repeat offender molesters should be released. They're not going to be rehabilitated. They're sick and they're going to do it again.

Omaha Steve (38,326 posts)
6. Uniformed Information Services Technician


I work the front desk behind bullet proof glass.

He just HAD to add the "Uniformed" to the beginning of his title. 

[BattleHymn]

Omaha Steve (38,326 posts)
6. Uninformed Information Services Technician


I work the front desk behind bullet proof glass.

FIFY Steve.

[Tucker]

He's misleading the DUmmies into thinking that he is a member of the police dept. Someone should ask the socialist if he has the powers of arrest.

[GOBUCKS]

I work the front desk behind bullet proof glass.

Like the night clerk at a convenience store, except less skilled.

Information Services Technician means he answers the phone.

[franksolich]

He's misleading the DUmmies into thinking that he is a member of the police dept. Someone should ask the socialist if he has the powers of arrest.

Despite that he seems "okay" in his new job, the big guy really remains obsessed with somehow getting aboard the disability gravy train.

He's got only seven more years until he can collect full social security retirement--even less if he takes advantage of early retirement and the generous pension the hard-pressed taxpayers of Omaha give city employees--but he's still looking for that free ride.

He's going to feel cheated by life, if he doesn't get that free ride, even if only for a few years.

Wait, watch, and see if I'm not right.

[BattleHymn]

Like the night clerk at a convenience store, except less skilled.

Information Services Technician means he answers the phone.

Something tells me they had to paint the telephone handset yellow to look like a banana to train him into picking it up.

[GOBUCKS]

Something tells me they had to paint the telephone handset yellow to look like a banana to train him into picking it up.

No, but they had to label the ends of the handset "listen" and "speak".

[thundley4]

Omaha Steve (38,326 posts)
6. Uniformed Information Services Technician

Big deal. I remember when all the gas stations were full service and all employees wore uniforms.  Texaco even had their slogan of "Trust your car to the man that wears the star".

Janitors for most companies are provided uniforms, too.

[miskie]

Its better than his former job, I suppose...

[franksolich]

Big deal. I remember when all the gas stations were full service and all employees wore uniforms.  Texaco even had their slogan of "Trust your car to the man that wears the star".

Janitors for most companies are provided uniforms, too.

The big guy has a fixation about wearing a uniform of some sort--thus Freudianly betraying his totalitarian longings--uniforms on his job, faux uniforms at these reunions of long-ago third-tier television celebrities.

That phenomenon, I don't understand; I myself have never taken a job requiring wearing a uniform, or only rarely, a name-tag.  It all seems to dehumanize one.  If I can't wear my own clothes, forget it.  And if someone wants to know who I am, well, they can ask.

Of course, at "high security" places, such as those times when I was a supervisor for First Data Resources (financial services) or the government, while a uniform wasn't required, one of those plastic-coated name-tags was.  In those cases, I kept the name-tag inside a pocket, and when spotted by a security guy, pulled it out to flash at him, and then put it back into the pocket.

That wasn't exactly kosher, but I got away with it.

If it'd become an issue, I would've quit the job; no job is worth dehumanization.

[thundley4]

The big guy has a fixation about wearing a uniform of some sort--thus Freudianly betraying his totalitarian longings--uniforms on his job, faux uniforms at these reunions of long-ago third-tier television celebrities.

That phenomenon, I don't understand; I myself have never taken a job requiring wearing a uniform, or only rarely, a name-tag.  It all seems to dehumanize one.  If I can't wear my own clothes, forget it.  And if someone wants to know who I am, well, they can ask.

Of course, at "high security" places, such as those times when I was a supervisor for First Data Resources (financial services) or the government, while a uniform wasn't required, one of those plastic-coated name-tags was.  In those cases, I kept the name-tag inside a pocket, and when spotted by a security guy, pulled it out to flash at him, and then put it back into the pocket.

That wasn't exactly kosher, but I got away with it.

If it'd become an issue, I would've quit the job; no job is worth dehumanization.

<<<Had to wear a uniform in the US Navy. 

[franksolich]

<<<Had to wear a uniform in the US Navy. 

Yeah, and I always wondered how I'd be able to handle that, having to wear a uniform.

In myself, the fear of having to wear a uniform is deeply-set, and animal-like in its revulsion and terror; it's never happened, but I do believe if someone was trying to push a uniform on me, I'd get violent.

Probably, as with the same fear of red-headed women, it's from some long-ago trauma in childhood or something; I'm very adamant about the "right" to wear my own stuff.

There is however a rational aesthetic reason too; I just come across best in my own clothes, usually brown or grey or blue in various shades, while most "work" (non-military) uniforms are pukingly disgusting colors.

And polyester crap too, like what Skippy seems to prefer.

And ill-fitting.

I've always harbored a suspicion that bosses of maintenance men, convenience store clerks, and real-estate agents purposely want their people to look like clowns.

[thundley4]

Yeah, and I always wondered how I'd be able to handle that, having to wear a uniform.

In myself, the fear of having to wear a uniform is deeply-set, and animal-like in its revulsion and terror; it's never happened, but I do believe if someone was trying to push a uniform on me, I'd get violent.

Probably, as with the same fear of red-headed women, it's from some long-ago trauma in childhood or something; I'm very adamant about the "right" to wear my own stuff.

There is however a rational aesthetic reason too; I just come across best in my own clothes, usually brown or grey or blue in various shades, while most "work" (non-military) uniforms are pukingly disgusting colors.

And polyester crap too, like what Skippy seems to prefer.

And ill-fitting.

I've always harbored a suspicion that bosses of maintenance men, convenience store clerks, and real-estate agents purposely want their people to look like clowns.

My job provides uniforms for them that want them, but they aren't mandatory. Dark blue pants with a light blue shirt. They're some sort of synthetic material so I don't wear them.  I wear blue jeans and a T-shirt in summer and a long sleeved denim shirt in winter.  I want something that will catch fire not melt to my skin.

[franksolich]

My job provides uniforms for them that want them, but they aren't mandatory. Dark blue pants with a light blue shirt. They're some sort of synthetic material so I don't wear them.  I wear blue jeans and a T-shirt in summer and a long sleeved denim shirt in winter.  I want something that will catch fire not melt to my skin.

There's a lot of steelworkers in this area--non-union but making into the very low six figures--and I've always felt sorry for those guys, running around wearing a certain puke-green uniform.

Puke-green does not look good on anybody.

One time I inquired about it, and learned that the material's a special flame-retardant substance.

Well, the same company also provides the same thing in dark blue, a color that doesn't rob one of one's dignity and manhood.

But for some reason, the guys seem to prefer the puke-green garb.  I've probably been told "why," but didn't catch it.

[DLR Pyro]

He just HAD to add the "Uniformed" to the beginning of his title. 

Did he mean uniformed or uninformed?

[GOBUCKS]

I wonder if uniformed Steve wears that Combat Infantry Badge to work.

[Big Dog]

I wonder if uniformed Steve wears that Combat Infantry Badge to work.

I have no doubt. Also a vintage OPD badge to "honor" the grandfather of one of his neighbors, who was on the job back in the 1930s, and a SEAL trident to remind himself of that trip he took to Sea World a few years ago.

I wonder if he has to adhere to grooming standards, since he's working "uniform". Without his neckbeard, he'd look just like Ralph Kramden.

[dane]

1. IST? What is that?

6. Uniformed Information Services Technician

If the answer includes "uniformed", why did his introduction state he is an "IST", and not a "UIST"?

[RobJohnson]

Big deal. I remember when all the gas stations were full service and all employees wore uniforms.  Texaco even had their slogan of "Trust your car to the man that wears the star".

Janitors for most companies are provided uniforms, too.

Women love men in uniforms.

[fatboy]

He's misleading the DUmmies into thinking that he is a member of the police dept. Someone should ask the socialist if he has the powers of arrest.

And does he wear a Glock 9 mil?