McGruff is not above the law!!

[Figs]

http://www.avclub.com/article/mcgruff-the-crime-dog-actor-jailed-for-possessing-107606

John R. Morales—an actor who played McGruff The Crime Dog, the mascot who encouraged in children an acute suspicion of criminals, but a trusting embrace of human-dog hybrids in trenchcoats—has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, where bites are taken slowly, incipiently out of crime, as well as out of a man’s soul.

According to a CBS report, Morales was pulled over for speeding in 2011, when police using drug-sniffing, non-trenchcoat-wearing dogs discovered multiple pot seeds, along with diagrams of two indoor pot-growing operations. (McGruff always did like diagrams.) After raiding Morales’ home, they then discovered 1,000 pot plants, as well as 9,000 rounds of ammunition and 27 weapons—including a grenade launcher.

In Morales’ defense, while McGruff often warned kids of the dangers of drug usage and their parents’ handguns, he never said anything about grenade launchers.

During his hearing, Morales insisted he was nonviolent, presumably saying he was just holding that grenade launcher for a friend. But like so many members of McGruff’s Safety Club know, guns and drugs are no joke, and the police knew right away they should tell a parent or teacher or U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore, who told Morales, “Everything I read about you makes you seem like a scary person.” It’s believed everything Gilmore read about Morales let her know that he was a stranger, and strangers are danger.

 

[Drizzle]

I am so glad that I live in a world where this happened.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

That is pretty dang funny. While I really don't think growing the herb is that big of a deal, why in the heck would you ever need a freaking grenade launcher?! He must have been in with some serious people

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

I didn't think irony could reach max levels like this.

 

[charl_huntress]

This is like Corey Haim/Feldman (one of them) doing a "Just say No" PSA while high as a kite...lol

 

[KevanG]

Take a bite out of crime!

This time with grenades!

 

[The Guard]

That's not the real McGruff.

The real McGruff was a cartoon.

 

[Lencho01]

It reminds of my experience with DARE. They had some high school kids show up to talk to us. Then, I not learned only did one of them live in my apartment complex (I thought she was pretty t, but that she also smoked.

 

[KevanG]

I'll always remember that time Johnny Depp did the eggs = your brain message. I tear up a bit every time I see it.

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[Teelie]

That is pretty dang funny. While I really don't think growing the herb is that big of a deal, why in the heck would you ever need a freaking grenade launcher?! He must have been in with some serious people

I was going to say because he lived in Florida. I was close. He lived in Texas.

 

[Figs]

That's not the real McGruff.

The real McGruff was a cartoon.

Yes, I think we all realize that. It's just the fact that he was representing a no drugs/crime PSA and gets caught breaking the law was ironic.

 

[X Knight]

talk about irony........lol

 

[<(o_o)>]

It reminds of my experience with DARE. They had some high school kids show up to talk to us. Then, I not learned only did one of them live in my apartment complex (I thought she was pretty t, but that she also smoked.

Did you ever call her out on it?

 

[Lencho01]

Did you ever call her out on it?

Nah, I was too afraid to do it.