Well, after Barber got caught up in Tractorgate more than a year later, the Broward Sheriff's Office began to take a closer look at his old police reports. A brilliant idea? Does the drummer from Def Leppard only have one arm? The resulting insurance claim would cover the price of the tickets and then some. Pour some sugar on yourself, take a deep breath and try to follow along with this: After the babysitter Barber and his wife had hired to work the night of the show bailed on the couple, the totally rockin' law-enforcement officer allegedly decided the best way to get his money back for those unused concert tickets would be to draft a fake report that stated his wife and neighbor had been in a traffic accident. This past June, Barber turned himself in to Palm Beach County Police for his alleged role in a complicated and supremely jackasstic scheme to get a refund on tickets to see the aging hair-metal band two years earlier at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood. If a local radio talker wasn't calling for people to resort to armed insurrection if a nutcase like Allen West couldn't get elected (the one upshot to his successful campaign, really), an angry motorist was plowing through a Martin Luther King Day parade, or a deputy sheriff was involved in a complicated scheme involving falsified police reports and fraud to get a refund for his Def Leppard tickets.
They seemed to be everywhere, from the local bar to the halls of Congress. In a year in which Sarah Palin was the driving political personality, when caffeinated alcoholic beverages reached such a sublime state of perfection that they had to be banned for the safety of college kids, when Tea Partyers stomped the terra demanding that government keep its hands off their Medicare, when the Super Bowl and its surrounding debauchery came to Miami, when panic and hatred seemed to bloom everywhere you looked, it goes without saying that the jackasses were on the prowl. The year of our Lord 2010 was a banner one for jackasses.
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