• May 26, 2012

Everyday America: Woman Hears Urban Music, Assumes Husband Is Hostage

by Jack Stuef  

They always go after the rural middle-school teachers.

In the popular vernacular, it was a butt dial, the bane of many a chagrined cell phone user. This time, it led to a frantic 911 call from a wife. Soon, more than 30 gun-toting officers converged on Carleton Washburne School, which also houses the District 36 offices where the man works.

And how could such a thing happen?

“He was listening to music and he had, I don’t know, hip-hop … or music like that, where there were lyrics that were gangster-like,” explained Mark Friedman, interim co-superintendent of District 36. “So there were lyrics on the radio as he was driving home, and she listened to it and became concerned.”

Perhaps the government can give jobs to some of the black people left unemployed by the recession. They can go around to the rural areas of this country and encourage the hill people to come up and touch their non-white skin and see that they are not so scary and murderous after all. And then America will finally have Hope n’ Change. [Chicago Tribune via Wonkette operative "Juli Weiner"]

{ 64 comments }

ManchuCandidate January 5, 2011 at 11:39 am

If he had Justine Beaver on… poor guy would be in the slammer as a pedo.

CZL January 5, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Would that really be wrong?

Gratuitous World January 5, 2011 at 11:42 am

comin straight outta Carleton. crazy muthafucker named friedman…

edgydrifter January 5, 2011 at 11:45 am

But if the music was playing in his car, that means… he's a cryptonegro!
THIS IS HUGE! They could be anywhere!! Right next to YOU!!1!

horsedreamer_1 January 5, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Cryptonegro? Wasn't that one of the fake trailers shown between Planet Terror & Deathproof?

jtinks January 5, 2011 at 11:45 am

not rural at all, this is from a super-wealthy north shore chicago suburb.

Gratuitous World January 5, 2011 at 11:59 am

the most action this area has seen since the 2 Wilmette geriatrics fought over that campaign yard sign.

SecretMuslin January 5, 2011 at 2:54 pm

Is this the same place where the fat, old Rascal couple got in the fight over the Wendy's Baconater?

fuflans January 5, 2011 at 1:57 pm

AND the same town where laurie dann had her little rampage back in the 80's.

this is why i don't live there anymore.

also, i couldn't afford to…

el_donaldo January 5, 2011 at 11:46 am

That music must have been "very urban" then.

Zvi_Bleindmeis January 5, 2011 at 11:48 am

Well, Keith Urban.

horsedreamer_1 January 5, 2011 at 12:01 pm

& he's stealing our white women. Well, Australia's.

harry_palmer January 5, 2011 at 11:48 am

This is a North Shore suburb, which becomes obvious if you listen to the rest of the wife's 911 call: "They didn't sound at all polite like our servants. And yet I felt a strange tingling, down there … "

SorosBot January 5, 2011 at 11:48 am

So the wife, in her paranoid racist insanity, calls 911 because she heard rap, then when her husband returned home perfectly well and non-kidnapped she doesn't think to call the cops and let them know it was all an incredibly stupid misunderstanding. Good job, crazy lady!

BornInATrailer January 5, 2011 at 11:50 am

Collatin' ain't easy but it's necessary..

edgydrifter January 5, 2011 at 11:53 am

Midstate Office Supply in the house.

horsedreamer_1 January 5, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Mourn ye 'til I join ye, H-Dog.

Don't worry, neither, bro: I'm lookin' after Baby Prince H real good, to make sure he grows up to office PROPER.

Monsieur_Grumpe January 5, 2011 at 11:50 am

Just imagine the chaos if this music were playing. http://www.muslimhiphop.com/

jodyleek January 5, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Muslim Hip Hop: Teabaggers :: Slim Whitman: Mars Attacks! aliens?
'Cause that would be awesome!

Monsieur_Grumpe January 5, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Genius!

4TheTurnstiles January 5, 2011 at 11:51 am

She didn't suspect him of Jungle Fever?

elviouslyqueer January 5, 2011 at 11:59 am

Perish the thought. It was bad enough that she suspected him of getting jiggy and crunk.

jodyleek January 5, 2011 at 11:52 am

He's a brother of another color! Gimme a high fibble!

Sue4466 January 5, 2011 at 11:52 am

I'm sorry. Music caused her concern, which led to a SWAT team converging on a school? No one has any fucking common sense or critical thinking skills. No one.

hagajim January 5, 2011 at 11:53 am

Bones, Thugs and Whitey! Honestly, haven't the hillbillies,snowbillies and grifters ever heard of a Wigger? Sheesh.

HistoriCat January 5, 2011 at 11:56 am

They can go around to the rural areas of this country and encourage the hill people to come up and touch their non-white skin and see that they are not so scary and murderous after all.

Oh no – that leads to even worse trouble. You don't want those people interfering with your wife or daughter … could lead to all kinds of trouble.
"Hey where the white women at?"

ttommyunger January 5, 2011 at 2:58 pm

Ohhh, It's twuuu, it's twuuuu!

HELisforHEL January 6, 2011 at 12:57 pm

"May we dance wif yo dates?"

Negropolis January 6, 2011 at 10:59 pm

But, but, the blacks have cutties. That's why good white folks refuse to shake our hands, or politely Purell their hands out of view. That's what you guys do, right?

PsycWench January 5, 2011 at 12:00 pm

She didn't think something was up when her husband was called "bitch" numerous times and told how much the bad guy's jewelry cost?

undeterredbyreality January 5, 2011 at 1:48 pm

He was on the down-low.

horsedreamer_1 January 6, 2011 at 11:45 am

Plus-one… Tyler Perry film treatment.

horsedreamer_1 January 5, 2011 at 12:02 pm

The husband accidentally downloaded some Bubba Sparkxx to his IPOD. He just assumed it was something else.

SorosBot January 5, 2011 at 12:03 pm

Since this woman was crazily racist enough to think that rap equals a kidnapping, I kind of pity the husband now that she's discovered he likes "urban" music.

angryclownspawn January 5, 2011 at 12:32 pm

She's gonna totally freak out when she starts to poke around in his closet and finds all the bling and his very, very urban outfits he has tucked away for when she takes the kids to visit her mother.

LionelHutzEsq January 5, 2011 at 12:06 pm

Chicago Tribune via Wonkette operative "Juli Weiner"

So, is "Juli Weiner" a pseudonym? Or are those scare quotes?

Redhead January 5, 2011 at 3:22 pm

Didn't Juli used to be an editor or contributor or something on Wonkette? Or am I confused again? (I'm late for my afternoon coffee, so it's very possible that I'm just confused…)

HistoriCat January 5, 2011 at 3:36 pm

Editor/contributor – one of those. Wonkette must be like the Des Moines of political blogging – you have to pay your dues there before moving onto a larger market.

LionelHutzEsq January 5, 2011 at 3:50 pm

Yes.

LionelHutzEsq January 5, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Things to do if you hear very, very urban music:

1) Roll up your windows.

2) Get into a low, crouching position and take cover.

3) Call 911 and alert them to the thumping bass.

4) (Women only) Close ears so as not to be lured by the jungle rythyms.

5) (Men) Close ears so you will not give in to the fear of an urban planet.

Sophist FCD January 5, 2011 at 12:14 pm

You forgot to include a link to the video footage.

SudsMcKenzie January 5, 2011 at 12:38 pm

Kid Rock = call CDC
Snoop Dog = call DEA
Ted Nugent = call ATF
Coldplay = call in Drone strike

DashboardBuddha January 5, 2011 at 1:18 pm

Brilliant

HempDogbane January 5, 2011 at 1:36 pm

LeeAnn Rimes = call RNC

WigFlipper January 5, 2011 at 12:50 pm

Serious comment: what the fuck is Winnetka doing with a SWAT team?

SorosBot January 5, 2011 at 12:52 pm

They need the means to keep the undesirables out.

the_onceler January 5, 2011 at 1:53 pm

speak in code: "to prevent crime".

the_onceler January 5, 2011 at 1:50 pm

Oops, didn't read your's and asked the same question below.

fuflans January 5, 2011 at 1:59 pm

serious answer, probably because of lauri dann.

Steverino247 January 5, 2011 at 1:16 pm

You can't outrun the crazy, bitch. I done told ya.

donner_froh January 5, 2011 at 1:28 pm

The Winnetka SWAT squad must have looked impressive when they rolled up in their armored Prius and Segway scooters.

the_onceler January 5, 2011 at 1:50 pm

Is this the proper venue to ask why Winnetka even has a SWAT team?

bumfug January 5, 2011 at 1:59 pm

Of course she was concerned – every time he butt-dials and she hears country music, he's drunk. It's just a leap of logic.

mereoblivion January 5, 2011 at 2:07 pm

It was the best of rhymes
It was the worst of crimes

ttommyunger January 5, 2011 at 2:59 pm

Serves her right for marrying a nigger…

TanzbodenKoenig January 5, 2011 at 3:11 pm

Speaking as a long term Knoxvillian – you do NOT want to approach hill people, under any circumstances. They are a skittish creature and will fight back when cornered, especially if they are rabid/on a meth bender. Who knows what they would do when confronted with a walking, talking black person.

DangerHelvetica January 5, 2011 at 4:49 pm

"I thought you liked rap music."
"I did, but that was before I realized it had words."
"Wait a minute, you didn't know rap had words? Why did you think it was called rap?"
"I thought it was because of the rhythm. You know, rap-rap, rappity-tap."

MiniMencken January 5, 2011 at 6:57 pm

As Yakov Smirnov once observed, "What a country!"

Bluestatelibel January 5, 2011 at 7:48 pm

No snark, but this reminds me of the Frontline program last night that showed how this poor guy was wrongfully executed, and one of the biggest things against him was that he seemed to like heavy metal music, so naturally he was guilty.

Negropolis January 5, 2011 at 11:11 pm

As a very, very urban gentlemen who enjoys very, very urban music (among other genres) I am…well, not offended. Actually, I'm not sure what to think besides having the sadz for this woman.

I remember when a sherrif's deputy in the county next to me shot himself in the leg, and then sent out call that he was shot by a very, very urban gentlement of a certain size, so they put the entire area on lockdown. I had been in the area literally half-an-hour before this occurred, and it blew my mind that I could have been unwittingly caught up in this. While on trial for whatever he was charged with (an ultimately put on some BS level of probation), he was frequently spotted at a local strip club. What a guy.

No snark, and no lesson, but just a realization of how often this stuff happens and how it happens literally everywhere from the rural to the urban and everything in between.

catchtheflava January 6, 2011 at 8:59 am

The husband realized he was in trouble when the wife came out in her jammies to get his ass, askin' him why he needed to go out every night of the damn week. Then she was drivin' back to the house, drivin' all crazy, and he's foggin' up the windows and writing HELP MEEEEE, that's the real hostage story here folks

XOhioan January 6, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Yes, Mrs. Friedman–your hubby has jungle fever. Get an apple bottom or get out.

jim89048 January 6, 2011 at 9:21 pm

I'ma wonder if he came home with a backwards "B" carved into his cheek.

wondering where i am January 7, 2011 at 12:20 am

Butt Dialing: had to go to Wikipedia for that:

"The term was invented by Amit Goldenberg, an Israeli linguist who discovered the phenomenon while researching cell phone usage among Mexican clothing sewers in a border county of Arizona."

Clothing sewers? Washing fabric down the drain? Oh, women who sew clothing, and dial with their butts? I am so confused.

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