Boss Hogg Is Alive And Well
0When I was a youngster in the 80′s my parents would go out on Friday nights and a sweet old lady named Mrs. Bennett would come baby sit my siblings and me. She would bring us all kinds of tasty treats and put on the Dukes Of Hazard for us to watch. The Duke boys were the coolest people in my young opinion and I wanted to be just like them. I wanted to drive a fast orange car with a flag painted on it and jump creeks where suddenly the road went out. Of course they wouldn’t have to jump those creeks if it weren’t for the villain Boss Hogg and his minion Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane (and his dog Flash). They were frightening yet comical. A couple of bumbling idiots who had no reason at all to chase the poor Dukes. Mrs. Bennett is no longer with us but the Dukes of Hazard live on forever.
Today I read an article about a poor woman who was traveling during this holiday season. While going through security in the Las Vegas airport she was pulled aside because of a suspicious item in her baggage. It was a small cylindrical shaped object with a gel like substance inside. The TSA agent, who didn’t seem to have a dog named Flash with him, questioned it and called over his supervisor who informed the young lady that she could not, in fact, take her cupcake, mainly because of the frosting on the plane with her. She was saving this cupcake for such a time when her young child might become hungry. Its something that happens, and I’m only speculating, thousands of times a day.
Let me put this into a perspective that me, as a young child, could understand. The woman in question was like the poor Duke boys (except she’s a woman) just driving along minding her own business. The scanner is like the creek that the road has suddenly washed out from. The TSA agent is Sheriff Coltrane and his boss is Boss Hogg. The TSA decided to hit her up with a bogus charge while the boss approved. Unfortunately, the woman was not able to jump the creek in this example and she was forced to leave the General Lee aka her cupcake behind much to the chagrin of her poor child. Are these two “lawmen of Hazard County” bumbling idiots? My friend, the evidence speaks for itself and I rest my case.
