It’s a plain, obvious fact that the police in the U.S. are out of line. They kill old men, autistic little kids, and homeless people. They shoot at any imagined provocation, and they never get any punishment that comes even close to fitting the crime.
So, maybe this incident doesn’t seem so bad, because nobody got killed, or even hurt, if you call losing all of your prized possessions not being hurt. It seems a bit of overreach to me.
Donald Miller seems like quite a pleasant old man. He’s certainly led an interesting life, traveling around the world and collecting cool stuff. Now, at 91, he’s living in Warldron, Indiana, which is, I am quite certain, as close to the middle of nowhere as any municipality on Earth. He occasionally allows people to tour his house, as if it were a museum.
He’s got the skin of an Anaconda, two fossilized skeletons of bears, shrunken heads from Papua New Guinea, a piece of concrete that he claims is from Hitler’s bunker but, seriously, concrete is concrete, that could just be a part of a wall or whatever, a lot of arrowheads that were on the property, an old Chinese vase, and much, much+ more.
So, the other day, the police raided the place confiscated all Miller’s stuff. Their bullshit excuse was they needed to return the items to the country of origin, but somehow I doubt that the Brazilians are going to want their anaconda skin back. If Romania really wants their bear-o-rama back, maybe they could make an offer for it, or politely request that Mr. Miller send it back to them, or…there are lots of options.
Anyway, what was Miller’s crime?
