Weekly Daily Brickbats Archive 2009 June 29-31

It was a pretty cool idea for Father's Day. Give dad a flight on one of just two B-24 Liberators still flying. So photographer Danny Hurley went out to Texas' Addison Field to shoot the plane and the dads. He'd been taking pictures all morning when an Addison police officer approached him, pulled out his gun, and handcuffed him. Even though the plane's crew had radioed the tower to let them know he was supposed to be there, the officer detained him for standing on the tarmac. He eventually let him go, but not before telling him he'd committed a federal felony and should expect to hear from the Department of Homeland Security.

What should a police officer do when a 14-year-old boy allegedly knocks a younger boy off his bike and punches him? He probably shouldn't threaten to sodomize him with his baton. But that's allegedly what Senior Constable Matthew Lake did in Australia. The boy secretly recorded Lake telling him if he heard of him doing anything like that again he would shove the baton "so far up your a—you won't know what day it is."