{"id":35548,"date":"2013-03-22T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35548"},"modified":"2020-07-05T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T15:59:21","slug":"well-at-least-he-didnt-get-killed-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35548","title":{"rendered":"Well, at least he didn\u2019t get killed on the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lz34P8618qk?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Well, to each, his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">On one hand, it\u2019s good to know that Darien Long isn\u2019t going to die on the job. But on the other hand, it\u2019s ironically unfortunate that not only has Darien Long been let go from his job, he\u2019s also been arrested. For doing god\u2019s work and trying to heaven forbid, actually make a mall a better and safer place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I get all the facts that have surfaced around both the circumstances of his release as well all his arrest, but it all just doesn\u2019t really feel that right regardless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">He\u2019s being let go by the property under the excuse that they are making budget cuts, but the initial story seemed to insinuate that the property owners simply didn\u2019t like the attention that his righteous fame was bringing to the area, and the best (ironic) part was that a lot of the mall\u2019s shop owners didn\u2019t really like the fact that he had a video camera recording everything, including the discreet sales of possible counterfeit goods. It turns out that the shop owners would rather have the mall be populated by thieves, drug dealers and prostitutes harassing patrons, rather than someone who legitimately wants to keep the place clean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Long is aware that they\u2019re all coming back the instant that he\u2019s no longer guarding the property. Personally, that serves the property right, and I hope a gang war or something flares up in there, leading to the property being destroyed in the long run, because it\u2019s a shit hole of a place to begin with, and if crooked bureaucracy is going to eliminate the one beacon of good from it, it doesn\u2019t need to exist at all in my book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">As for Darien Long\u2019s arrest, I get that too, but it doesn\u2019t make it any less unfortunate. Long story short, Long is charged with assault, for tackling a person in the mall that he had at one point banned from the property who still came back anyway. There aren\u2019t a whole lot of facts out there regarding the banishment in the first place, but given the nature of the place, people, and how Darien Long operates, I\u2019m assuming that Long himself had declared him banned from the property, and maybe done so on camera, or taken a snapshot. But being where it is, and the already-known crooked nature of the property\u2019s management, I\u2019m also going to assume that there\u2019s no official record, or police-mandated restraining order preventing the perp from being allowed onto the property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So for all intents and purposes, Darien Long tackled an \u201cinnocent\u201d patron, despite personal history. As unfortunate as it is, and as much as I\u2019d like for them to do so, I\u2019m betting the courts aren\u2019t going to accept video of a verbal banishment in the past as grounds to dismiss the assault case. I think the only thing that saves Long in this case is if there\u2019s clear literature stating his power and rights as the on-site security manager of the property, and very clear and unaltered time stamps of the video incidents of the initial banishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">What I dislike about the whole scenario are all the people interviewed or quoted on the sidelines. From the shop owners who are kind of glad he\u2019s getting the axe so that there\u2019s no chance of there being any video evidence of them selling illegal counterfeit merchandise, to the so-called witnesses of any of Long\u2019s physical altercations with thugs; it\u2019s like they\u2019re all opposed to Long\u2019s self-imposed mission to fight the good fight, and insinuate that he\u2019s disturbing the peace. Even in the embedded video, the witness to the fight that got Long arrested basically has this smugness in her tone, and makes sure to point out that the thug was actually getting the better of Long in the scuffle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">To me, these are most definitely people who are relishing in the fall and failure of a hero, who\u2019s just trying to do the right thing; and I just don\u2019t understand why people enjoy this so much. Not just exclusively in the case of Darien Long, but all sorts of celebrities, heroes, and people attempting to just do good.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, to each, his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. On one hand, it\u2019s good to know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well, at least he didn\u2019t get killed on the job<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,45,90,30,15],"class_list":["post-35548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-hypocrisy","tag-justice","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35549,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35548\/revisions\/35549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}