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        <title>The long (and silly) arm of the law - Bakosphere - bakosphere&apos;s Blog - Bakersfield.com</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/26929</link>
        <description>Had it not been for L.A.P.D., the Kern County Sheriff&#039;s Department may never have realized 20 handguns were missing from its property room.
Read the story here and check out the sheriff&#039;s news release which contains this disturbing line:
The Kern County Sheriff&#039;s Office confirmed that the handgun was supposed to be in the Kern County Sheriff&#039;s Office property room.
Meanwhile, across town a BPD officer was apprehending a man who had stripped to his boxer shorts as part of a KLLY radio show contest.
The story is here, and it explains why the man spent some time in the back of the police car:
The officer saw Smith taking his clothes off and was worried he might strip down completely.
And you absolutely must listen to the radio broadcast which gives a play-by-play of the incident. It includes this classic on-air line from the DJ on location:
&amp;quot;Uh-oh. C.K.&#039;s going in the back of the squad car right now.&amp;quot;
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        <itunes:summary>Had it not been for L.A.P.D., the Kern County Sheriff&#039;s Department may never have realized 20 handguns were missing from its property room.
Read the story here and check out the sheriff&#039;s news release which contains this disturbing line:
The Kern County Sheriff&#039;s Office confirmed that the handgun was supposed to be in the Kern County Sheriff&#039;s Office property room.
Meanwhile, across town a BPD officer was apprehending a man who had stripped to his boxer shorts as part of a KLLY radio show contest.
The story is here, and it explains why the man spent some time in the back of the police car:
The officer saw Smith taking his clothes off and was worried he might strip down completely.
And you absolutely must listen to the radio broadcast which gives a play-by-play of the incident. It includes this classic on-air line from the DJ on location:
&amp;quot;Uh-oh. C.K.&#039;s going in the back of the squad car right now.&amp;quot;
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                <title>May 20,  2008 at 07:05 AM : And his opponent in...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;And his opponent in the contest,a woman,received no such attention from the police...that missing gun episode is a tad scary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/26929/#c_240668</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;And his opponent in the contest,a woman,received no such attention from the police...that missing gun episode is a tad scary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>May 20,  2008 at 08:05 AM : Makes a lot of sense...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Makes a lot of sense having a temp employee handling evidence weapons. That&#039;s what I call management!&lt;/p&gt;
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                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/26929/#c_240707</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Makes a lot of sense having a temp employee handling evidence weapons. That&#039;s what I call management!&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>May 20,  2008 at 09:05 AM : 
Makes a lot of sense...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Makes a lot of sense having a temp employee handling evidence weapons.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&#039;s what happens when you&amp;nbsp;cut corners and hire part-time and temporary workers in place of full-time, permanent employees.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/26929/#c_240760</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Makes a lot of sense having a temp employee handling evidence weapons.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&#039;s what happens when you&amp;nbsp;cut corners and hire part-time and temporary workers in place of full-time, permanent employees.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>May 20,  2008 at 10:05 AM : GEEZE LOUISE - what a...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;G&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;EEZE LOUISE - what a waste of money, hiring a temp.&amp;nbsp; They could have had one of the &amp;quot;lerdo&amp;quot; convicts sit there for nothing!!!!&amp;nbsp; They would be &amp;quot;full-time&amp;quot; and most of them would be &amp;quot;pernament&amp;quot;!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/26929/#c_240794</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;G&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;EEZE LOUISE - what a waste of money, hiring a temp.&amp;nbsp; They could have had one of the &amp;quot;lerdo&amp;quot; convicts sit there for nothing!!!!&amp;nbsp; They would be &amp;quot;full-time&amp;quot; and most of them would be &amp;quot;pernament&amp;quot;!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>May 20,  2008 at 10:05 AM : They aren&#039;t...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;They aren&#039;t really &amp;quot;temps&amp;quot; in the strictest sense.&amp;nbsp; Most county jobs start out as &amp;quot;Extra Help&amp;quot; where they work 9 months then have 2 months off before being called back.&amp;nbsp; Providing they are acceptable that is.&amp;nbsp; They get no benefits at all, o paid holidays or sick leave, &amp;nbsp;but are put through the same drug tests and orientation as any county employee.&amp;nbsp; The are employees of the county and not a &amp;quot;temp&amp;quot; service.&amp;nbsp; All the same duties apply, all the same responsibilites, confidentiality and so forth.&amp;nbsp; The pay is the same as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was hired as Extra Help and on the last day of my 9 months I was informed I was made permanent.&amp;nbsp; When the union got the raise for county workers, they started doing away with some of the permanent positions and filled them with extra help.&amp;nbsp; When I left in Feb. I was told that my Permanent position was now EH.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people who have insurance coverage through another source prefer to work that way for the two months off.&amp;nbsp; I considered it but decided even that was more work than I wanted.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/26929/#c_240809</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;They aren&#039;t really &amp;quot;temps&amp;quot; in the strictest sense.&amp;nbsp; Most county jobs start out as &amp;quot;Extra Help&amp;quot; where they work 9 months then have 2 months off before being called back.&amp;nbsp; Providing they are acceptable that is.&amp;nbsp; They get no benefits at all, o paid holidays or sick leave, &amp;nbsp;but are put through the same drug tests and orientation as any county employee.&amp;nbsp; The are employees of the county and not a &amp;quot;temp&amp;quot; service.&amp;nbsp; All the same duties apply, all the same responsibilites, confidentiality and so forth.&amp;nbsp; The pay is the same as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was hired as Extra Help and on the last day of my 9 months I was informed I was made permanent.&amp;nbsp; When the union got the raise for county workers, they started doing away with some of the permanent positions and filled them with extra help.&amp;nbsp; When I left in Feb. I was told that my Permanent position was now EH.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people who have insurance coverage through another source prefer to work that way for the two months off.&amp;nbsp; I considered it but decided even that was more work than I wanted.&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>May 20,  2008 at 01:05 PM : My dept runs on extra...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;My dept runs on extra help.  You train them, they get experience, they leave.  Repeat.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/bakosphere/26929/#c_240930</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;My dept runs on extra help.  You train them, they get experience, they leave.  Repeat.&lt;/p&gt;
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