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An Oklahoma Sheriff is being accused of running his own version of Girls Gone Wild in prison: On Wednesday, Mike Burgess, the top officer in Custer County — 90 miles outside Oklahoma City — was arrested for, among other charges, forcing female prisoners to "engage in wet T-shirt contests and offering cigarettes to those who would flash their breasts," reports the AP. Burgess's T-shirt contests weren't his only alleged misconducts: A federal lawsuit against him includes "14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official." Other dastardly deeds attributed to the asshole: telling a drug court participant he would send to jail if she didn't give him sexual favors; giving a prisoner a coveted "jail trusty" job after she performed a sex act on him, then taking the position away when she would no longer service him, and telling a third woman he would get her brother released from jail if she did him.
This kind of abuse of power, of course, is nothing new. (We saw something similar earlier this year when immigration official Isaac Baichu who asked a Colombian woman for oral sex in exchange for her green card.) And for now, Burgess is out on $50,000 bail, although, if he's convicted of all the charges he currently faces, he will get a sentence of 467 years in prison. Hey: Maybe he and douchenozzle Joe Francis can share a cell!
Prison Sex-Slave Operation Alleged [AP via CBS News]
Custer Co. Sheriff Resigns In Sex Scandal [The Oklahoman]
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Law & Order SVU: prescient and freakishly well-timed! Also, does that mean we can send Mariska Hargitay to kick the crap out of this guy?
I hear jail is a super fun place for ex-Sheriffs, especially those convicted of sexual assault. I hope he has a great time there!
Sigh. Why oh why. What a great way to end the week.
I hope they suspended him with pay!
467 years sounds just about right.
@PinkSoxHat: Amen. Let's hope the system doesn't coddle him because he's law enforcement. Throw him to the wolves.
Happy Friday!
Nice. I hope he gets what is coming to him in jail..in every available hole.
What? That guy? Nah, not that guy.
What the hell is wrong with people? These power trip types scare me the most because you know they think they've earned it or they deserve it. NAY!
I'm so sorry for what I'm about to say, but wtf is up with some people in Oklahoma? Between this douche, and the lady homophobic/hate-spewing governer, it turns my stomach. I doubt I'll ever stop over in OK for a visit.
May he get the clap. Over and over again. In jail.
@PinkSoxHat: Oh yeah, most prisoners LOVE law enforcement. It should be a party alright.
like sunglasses, it is never OK to wear a cowboy hat inside. total dbag giveaway..... as confirmed by the story.
This picture could not be more poetically positioned next to this story. White dude, cowboy hat, creepy moustach, big American flag in an "office" filled with "books" he has never read. Incorporate a Bible in his hand and it's fucking ideal.
@boss_lady: Or is she the Senator? I'm not 100% sure of her position, but she sucks nonetheless.
@meaghan2k: I know, the guy with the white cowboy hat and Ted Bundy glasses is some kind of a skeeve? What is the world coming to?
I totally saw this movie.
That is Max Hardcore, isn't it?
@LaComtesse: im sure those books are housefill.
@stacyinbean, for the erector set...: You should read about the Stanford Prison experiment; the hypothesis given that the prisoner/guard dynamic taps into parts of the human nature that pretty much guarantees this kind of stuff:
[en.wikipedia.org]
@dayglo: I'm so ashamed that I get your joke. Sigh.
Expect a pardon from Dubya momentarily.
@ArmansCopyOfSwank: Yeah, I find that experiment endlessly fascinating. I'd like to see it repeated with different tests for the genders, though.
Hey look, another nominee for the new Stacyinbean Jackhammer Award! Where are you Jezebelmeg, I need your help!
seems like we'll be needing some major kitteh, puppeh or other adorable nom-nom-able pics this afternoon if today continues like it looks like it might...
@j_dot: Really? It doesn't mean he is just a innocent good ol' country boy?
A lawyer in the Philadelphia area wears a cowboy hat in his advert. Really? Philadelphia? So down country home.
@boss_lady: Sadly, in my cross-country trip, OK was "America's Pleasant Surprise." My husband and I actually really liked it! So whenever I see bad things happening there, it makes me weep a little.
great...with this hole of the ass variety in oklahoma we look like complete yahoos yet again. it's not so wonderful here in ok, but it's not chock-full of the douchetastic either. thank god we can claim the flaming lips too.
and by the way...the hate-spewer was in the house of reps, we actually have a pretty decent (and democrat) governor. he usually fights the good fight...and he has to fight alot.
@j_dot: hence the quotation marks.
I'm usually sort of indifferent to these types of things, and maybe because I couldn't sleep at all last night this is really pissing me off. Those small town sheriffs pretty much always abuse their power. What's up with being a small town sheriff that brings out the worst in people? I hoped the gets ass raped in jail forever.
@zivah: I was just thinking the same thing. It would also be interesting to see how people of a different culture reacted to the experiment, though my guess is that you'd probably get the same thing throughout the 'civilized' world.
Just because that is the only way that you can get some doesn't mean that it is okay. When will these guys learn?
@LaComtesse: ah, not an arrested development watcher :)
i think it's homefill anyways.
@Meanmllemustard: Good sweet jesus, that attempted rape scene in that episode left me so fucking scared.
I can't take this story of this incredible abuse of power at this time of morning. Last night was my school's Take Back The Night!
He makes Sheriff Joe Arpaio look like a peach.
@zivah: Yeah, that and the Milgram experiment are incredibly interesting... And can probably never be repeated.
I think would should applaud this man. I mean, he's a hero for the capitalists. He has exploited women for his own personal gain, much like Joe Francis. What does it matter, really? They're not real women, they're in jail. Just like the Girls Gone Wild aren't daughters, girlfriends, or even gasp! humans; they're just drunk sluts that love to show off their tits.
Someone please put his face on a stamp. I want to salute this American hero.
Power tripping small town guys taking advantage of women in tough situations.
Sadly unsurprising, but just as disgusting as ever.
@meaghan2k: *we should. HAHA would should. I'm a dumbass.
Annnnnnd, vomit.
@boss_lady: Don't judge an entire state by a few major assholes. As a person from Kansas, let me tell you that attitudes like this really offend us. There are assholes EVERYWHERE. But for every asshole, there are entire communities of people who are amazing, and caring, and open-minded.
@cate3710: @ArmansCopyOfSwank: That is insane, thanks for sharing! Definitely won't be able to repeat that again, but how amazing how people adapt to things.
@Lady Skittlehattington's evil twin, Whorey Licoricetits: Yes, it's less Oklahoma and more.. JAIL. This shit happens constantly in jails and prisons across the nation. I'm actually pretty psyched for Oklahoma that there is both a civil and a criminal action pending. Good on the OK states attorneys; prosecuting a sheriff is not an easy thing to do.
@J.D.Regent: My solution: we hire a drifter to come in and clean up the town.
Hey, it worked for Randolph Scott.
Instead of nom nom nom this is vom vom vom. This just makes me realize how little I understand people in general, because in my world things like this don't happen.
@LucyRed: Please. The article already says that the local district attorney refused to investigate or file charges (the OK bureau of investigations did it), the "undersheriff" is just SHOCKED any of this went on, and no one else in his office or the jail has been implicated in the scandal. Yup, he did it all himself, right? and no one wanted to investigate, right? how quaint. And he's already out of jail on bail? This doesn't look like it has gone well so far.
@stacyinbean, for the erector set...: I was just gathering up the supplies -- let's roll!
Seriously, though, I hope he stays a nice long while in jail. But some other people must have known -- so I hope they receive more than just a little slap.
@boss_lady: i think she is a state senator.
@boss_lady: It wasn't a homophobic hate spewing governor, it was a homophobic, hate spewing state rep. And she's been an asshat her entire time in office. Oklahoma is trying like hell to move into modern times and these bastard people keep dragging us back, sigh...
I'm rarely suprised anymore by the levels of corruption and abuse by law enforcement and elected officials in rural communities. And there's usually a tie somewhere to the judicial system. For something of this scope and gravity to go undetected for a period of time, rest assured lots of people were turning their heads the other way.
@Meanmllemustard: Right? Tonight, on the Headlines- ripped from Law and Order...
@meaghan2k:
ironically, Joe Francis accused the Grady County,OK pokey of 'abusing' him during his recent incarceration there. hmmmmmm
@Lady Skittlehattington's evil twin, Whorey Licoricetits: Again, I apologize. I do not judge the people of Oklahoma for the sheer bastardry of few. I speak with southern folks all day at work, and know them to be far sweeter and kinder than any others in the US. I am, however, wholly offended, as well, by what this man has done, and by what Sally Kern has said.
@Jezebabe: yeah it looks like they are making the sheriff the sacrificial lamb to avoid having to fire half the staff who were probably all in on it. gross.
@boss_lady: Don't forget we Oklahomans can also claim the guy who paid women for their panties. . .
@pferde_schwanz: 467 years under the watchful gaze of the women he's taken advantage of, is more like it.
@MillyMoo: yeah i'm pretty sure that guy lives in every town! try a craigslist near you.
@Meg: btw, I saw ANOTHER jackhammer this morning. Paul Janka really better watch it!
@Lady Skittlehattington's evil twin, Whorey Licoricetits: as person from kansas now serving time (but thankfully in a metaphorical jail, not custer country) in oklahoma, let me just say that ok may only be a state away, but it is a different world.
yet, even with the rampant southern hospitality an christianity, i doubt the locals condone the warden's action. after all, bj's are illegal here.
That picture kicks ass. Now when I call someone an asshat, we'll know EXACTLY what I'm referring to.