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Thanks for the Ride, Pop!
You know, as a kid, I spent a lot of time bumming rides from my dad. Once you reach a certain pre-driving age, your parents tend to become glorified chauffeurs, toting you around to friends’ houses, the movie theater, or out to the store to pick up school supplies. But once you turn 33, you’d like to think you could drive yourself around a little more, especially when you need to break into someone’s house and steal some loot.
But that’s not the case for a man named Paul Brown, who has been bumming rides from his dad so that he can burglarize houses. The catch here, of course, is that his dear old father in question is actually a Florida judge, who drove his son to not one, but two house burglaries.
Judge George Brown says that he didn’t know his kid was breaking into houses and he has yet to be held accountable for his getaway skills. But there are some folks who are beginning to wonder whether Brown’s claim of ignorance rings true, especially after the judge waited in his car while his son pried open a door and walked out with a fish tank. And when the burgled resident confronted the judge and his son, threatening to call the police, the judge drove away. In fact, when challenged by another resident at his home, the judge simply responded, “If I were you, I’d just write it off and move on in life because Paul’s going to prison and he doesn’t have any money.”
It’s all kind of sad, really. The judge seems to be trapped between his love for his son and the law he is bound to uphold. The whole thing smacks of a Dabney Coleman serialized drama for CBS, in which the judge tries felonies during the day and conducts heists with his son by night. I think we’ll just call it: “Touched by a Dumbass.”
