Just Busted: I don’t get it

by Tracy

Or, who buys this? WHY?

I saw this for sale at Walgreens today. Putting aside the disturbing idea that we have enough arrests in this county to warrant a weekly publication, I’m completely baffled by this paper.

I probably should have bought a copy or at least thumbed through one in the checkout line, but frankly I was too embarrassed. Once, a cop pulled my sister over for expired tags and he insisted on seeing my ID too because he thought for sure I was this hooker he busted before. He didn’t even apologize for thinking I was a prostitute violating parole which I thought was quite rude.

Anyway, I am really self conscious about that even though it was about 12 years ago and I wasn’t going to take the chance of opening up the paper to look at it and have the hooker that looks like me be on the back page and people snicker at me as they walk by until finally I flip it over and see prosti-me.

Seriously though, who would buy this? Why? Is it so you can memorize the face of everybody arrested for a crime in this county so if they come to your house you will know not to let them in? See if anyone you know was arrested? Do people buy several copies to get clippings for the grandparents? You know, because it seems like this would be something better suited for the Internet, so you could have searches and a like button for arrests you thought were particularly good. They could call it BustedBook!

Would you buy this? Do you have any idea why somebody would? Is there a similar publication where you live?

And why is that lady on the upper left smiling? Is that normal for people who’ve been just busted?

Tagged as: Just busted, look who's in jail in shelby county, people pay a dollar for that?, weird stuff I found at Walgreens

http://www.junkdrawerblog.com/ Junk Drawer Kathy

“Is that normal for people who’ve been just busted?” If they’re high on something, then probably.

“prosti-me” You. are. hilarious.
.-= Junk Drawer Kathy´s last blog ..Nevermind the Slippery Sidewalks =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com/ Tracy

My husband said he wanted to make a comment about prosti-me but thought better of it.

I never thought of them being high, but I guess it makes people more likely to be arrested, doesn’t it?

http://www.junkdrawerblog.com Junk Drawer Kathy

“Is that normal for people who’ve been just busted?” If they’re high on something, then probably.

“prosti-me” You. are. hilarious.
.-= Junk Drawer Kathy´s last blog ..Nevermind the Slippery Sidewalks =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com Tracy

My husband said he wanted to make a comment about prosti-me but thought better of it.

I never thought of them being high, but I guess it makes people more likely to be arrested, doesn’t it?

http://www.nancy.cc/ Nancy

How awesome that you spotted this. I’ve never seen anything like it before.

Are people’s names in there? I *might* buy it to look at names, if there were some good ones I could blog about.
.-= Nancy´s last blog ..What Tiger Woods Can Teach Us About Baby Names =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com/ Tracy

I’ll have to check next time I’m in Walgreens. I bet you could find a lot of good names if you worked in a company that prints elementary school yearbooks. I’ve seen some doozies in my kid’s yearbooks.

http://www.nancy.cc/ Nancy

How awesome that you spotted this. I’ve never seen anything like it before.

Are people’s names in there? I *might* buy it to look at names, if there were some good ones I could blog about.
.-= Nancy´s last blog ..What Tiger Woods Can Teach Us About Baby Names =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com Tracy

I’ll have to check next time I’m in Walgreens. I bet you could find a lot of good names if you worked in a company that prints elementary school yearbooks. I’ve seen some doozies in my kid’s yearbooks.

http://momgrind.com/ vered | blogger for hire

I think it’s just like any other tabloid – people love gossip and love reading about other people’s misfortune. Sad but true.
.-= vered | blogger for hire´s last blog ..Holidays in the 60s: Spam Spread, Foil and Scary Dips =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com/ Tracy

It just seems like if I knew somebody well enough to gossip about them, I wouldn’t have to pay a buck to see if they were arrested.

http://momgrind.com/ vered | blogger for hire

I think it’s just like any other tabloid – people love gossip and love reading about other people’s misfortune. Sad but true.
.-= vered | blogger for hire´s last blog ..Holidays in the 60s: Spam Spread, Foil and Scary Dips =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com Tracy

It just seems like if I knew somebody well enough to gossip about them, I wouldn’t have to pay a buck to see if they were arrested.

http://www.projecthappilyeverafter.com/ Alisa Bowman

I’ve heard that we have more people incarcerated in this country than any other country in the world. Not sure what that says about us, but I don’t think it’s good. And just think of all the extra money we’d have if we just eliminated the prison system from the national budget?

The crime blotter was always a popular read when I worked for a newspaper. I forget what journalist started the crime reporting back in the day. I had to memorize his name at one point for a test in J school, but it was either momnesia or one too many keg stands that knocked that piece of trivia out of my brain for good. At any rate, people thought he was sleazy and crazy at the time–that no one would want to read about crime and sex and drugs and such. And now an entire magazine devotes itself to such things.
.-= Alisa Bowman´s last blog ..Why I’m a winner! =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com/ Tracy

I really wish I’d looked through now to see if there were any actual articles or if it really was just pictures of every person arrested in the past week. Not sure if having articles would make it better or worse.

http://www.projecthappilyeverafter.com Alisa Bowman

I’ve heard that we have more people incarcerated in this country than any other country in the world. Not sure what that says about us, but I don’t think it’s good. And just think of all the extra money we’d have if we just eliminated the prison system from the national budget?

The crime blotter was always a popular read when I worked for a newspaper. I forget what journalist started the crime reporting back in the day. I had to memorize his name at one point for a test in J school, but it was either momnesia or one too many keg stands that knocked that piece of trivia out of my brain for good. At any rate, people thought he was sleazy and crazy at the time–that no one would want to read about crime and sex and drugs and such. And now an entire magazine devotes itself to such things.
.-= Alisa Bowman´s last blog ..Why I’m a winner! =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com Tracy

I really wish I’d looked through now to see if there were any actual articles or if it really was just pictures of every person arrested in the past week. Not sure if having articles would make it better or worse.

http://www.tumblemoose.com/ George Angus

Hi Tracy.

I agree! The electronic version is free and just comes to my RSS reader every day!

Kidding!

Morbid curiosity maybe? Like watching a plane crash or a train wreck, or sausage being made.

Who knows. Sometimes when I see stuff like this it makes me want to turn in my Human Race membership card.

George
.-= George Angus´s last blog ..Flash – Orb Chapter Two =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com/ Tracy

See, if I’ve got a dollar to spend, I’m buying Weekly World News. A little Bat Boy never hurt nobody.

http://www.tumblemoose.com George Angus

Hi Tracy.

I agree! The electronic version is free and just comes to my RSS reader every day!

Kidding!

Morbid curiosity maybe? Like watching a plane crash or a train wreck, or sausage being made.

Who knows. Sometimes when I see stuff like this it makes me want to turn in my Human Race membership card.

George
.-= George Angus´s last blog ..Flash – Orb Chapter Two =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com Tracy

See, if I’ve got a dollar to spend, I’m buying Weekly World News. A little Bat Boy never hurt nobody.

http://idothings.info/ JD at I Do Things

Ew! That seems so wrong! Then again, it depends on what these people did to get “busted.” If it was something really heinous or just plain embarrassing, then they deserve to have their faces plastered on the front page of this rag. I wonder if it’s a deterrant? Anyway, I wouldn’t buy it. I swear I wouldn’t. No, really. But if I had to wait in line and there weren’t ANY other good magazines to flip thru . . . No. Still wouldn’t.
.-= JD at I Do Things´s last blog ..I’m Throwing a Contest so you don’t have to =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com/ Tracy

You know what stinks? They keep it at the end of the counter at Walgreens so you can’t flip through while you’re in line.

I keep meaning to buy a research copy but I will have to go to a far off Walgreens for that. I don’t buy things like Just Busted or pregnancy tests or glycerin suppositories in my neighborhood store, because people have some big mouths around here.

http://idothings.info JD at I Do Things

Ew! That seems so wrong! Then again, it depends on what these people did to get “busted.” If it was something really heinous or just plain embarrassing, then they deserve to have their faces plastered on the front page of this rag. I wonder if it’s a deterrant? Anyway, I wouldn’t buy it. I swear I wouldn’t. No, really. But if I had to wait in line and there weren’t ANY other good magazines to flip thru . . . No. Still wouldn’t.
.-= JD at I Do Things´s last blog ..I’m Throwing a Contest so you don’t have to =-.

http://ihatemymessageboard.com Tracy

You know what stinks? They keep it at the end of the counter at Walgreens so you can’t flip through while you’re in line.

I keep meaning to buy a research copy but I will have to go to a far off Walgreens for that. I don’t buy things like Just Busted or pregnancy tests or glycerin suppositories in my neighborhood store, because people have some big mouths around here.

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Unknown

My son’s father is on the new edition. Because the paper has been circulating around my husband’s office, he called me to tell me the news. I didn’t really care, but he was in there for aggravated assault and attempted robbery.

I assume he beat up the new babies mother (he obtained four of them after my son was born) since he is still with her. He might have tried to robe too.

Who knows…
Unknown

My son’s father is on the new edition. Because the paper has been circulating around my husband’s office, he called me to tell me the news. I didn’t really care, but he was in there for aggravated assault and attempted robbery.

I assume he beat up the new babies mother (he obtained four of them after my son was born) since he is still with her. He might have tried to robe too.

Who knows…
Me

WEll the busted paper, which i look @ weekly and so do many of my friends and family, is a paper showing the mugshot of everyone that was arrested in that week. Everyone who was arrested and what they were arrested for. It also gives you the people in certain areas ( some not all ) child molestors and such in a certain area. My husband was looking @ a copy i had purchased and couldnt beleive that a guy he did some work for was a child molestor. not for statutory rape but for the actual crime. We were shocked! I beleive that it does some good to know who does what in your county. Who are the ones who are really actually doing drugs, theft, dui, sex offenders ECT ECT .
Me

WEll the busted paper, which i look @ weekly and so do many of my friends and family, is a paper showing the mugshot of everyone that was arrested in that week. Everyone who was arrested and what they were arrested for. It also gives you the people in certain areas ( some not all ) child molestors and such in a certain area. My husband was looking @ a copy i had purchased and couldnt beleive that a guy he did some work for was a child molestor. not for statutory rape but for the actual crime. We were shocked! I beleive that it does some good to know who does what in your county. Who are the ones who are really actually doing drugs, theft, dui, sex offenders ECT ECT .
s pharris

I can’t help but think, if you can afford a rich lawyer, would your pic. be in this awful magazine?
s pharris

I can’t help but think, if you can afford a rich lawyer, would your pic. be in this awful magazine?
Linda Newsome

I think the Just Busted paper is great. I would think twice before I would do anything to get my picture in there. I live in Georgia and I have seen a couple of people I Knew.Linda
Linda Newsome

I think the Just Busted paper is great. I would think twice before I would do anything to get my picture in there. I live in Georgia and I have seen a couple of people I Knew.Linda
vicki

I am a victim of identity theft. My ex sister in law stole my whole identity, even went to prison in florida under my name. Thank God her boyfriend gave them her real name or God only knows how long it would’ve took 4 me 2 clear that up. I’ve had my credit ruined (trust me, creditors don’t help u so after 10 yrs i’m still trying to get stuff cleared up!) I recently was arrested for checks she had written under my old account. It’s a shame that after all the h*** i’ve gone through now I have to have my face plastered in this paper. All I can say is after all these years she obviously still has my identity. She was released from prison in Jan. on robbing a bank and resisting arrest charges. Under her name it has me down as alias’ she’s used. She got 3 yrs for the other crimes, I lost my whole identity. I also have teenage children that are going to be embarrassed by this. Nothing to really do now except keep fighting. The case is being thrown out but like they say “a picture doesn’t lie” so now I have to explain all this to my kids,new in laws, my Church, just makes me so sad. I know my Church will understand and my kids have known about the identity theft I just hate having to re-live it all. Please pray that we get through this. Thanks 4 reading all this, I know it’s all confusing, it is to me sometimes 2.
vicki

I am a victim of identity theft. My ex sister in law stole my whole identity, even went to prison in florida under my name. Thank God her boyfriend gave them her real name or God only knows how long it would’ve took 4 me 2 clear that up. I’ve had my credit ruined (trust me, creditors don’t help u so after 10 yrs i’m still trying to get stuff cleared up!) I recently was arrested for checks she had written under my old account. It’s a shame that after all the h*** i’ve gone through now I have to have my face plastered in this paper. All I can say is after all these years she obviously still has my identity. She was released from prison in Jan. on robbing a bank and resisting arrest charges. Under her name it has me down as alias’ she’s used. She got 3 yrs for the other crimes, I lost my whole identity. I also have teenage children that are going to be embarrassed by this. Nothing to really do now except keep fighting. The case is being thrown out but like they say “a picture doesn’t lie” so now I have to explain all this to my kids,new in laws, my Church, just makes me so sad. I know my Church will understand and my kids have known about the identity theft I just hate having to re-live it all. Please pray that we get through this. Thanks 4 reading all this, I know it’s all confusing, it is to me sometimes 2.
Guest

I have never had so much as a parking ticket. A 120 lb. woman, I was falsely accused of domestic violence by a 240 lb. man, who was upset with me after I would not sleep with him on our one and only date. I have learned, in the state of Tennessee a citizen can have another arrested with no proof whatsoever. So although the charges were immediately dismissed and my record expunged, I could show up in the next issue of “Just Busted”, and if so, will likely lose my career, home, and reputation. Although my legal fight was immediately taken care of, I have to worry about this rag magazine slandering me after I have been cleared. BTW- My employer was made aware aware of the false charges/charge dismissal/expultion from my record (which took about 5 minutes in front of the judge), and have been supportive so far. However, I feel my appearance in “Just Busted” would likely change their supportive stance. The stalker who filed the false charges has a history of doing this to other women, and does not have to face any charges for lying about the accusations and making my life hell. This is not so in all states, but a horrible flaw in Tennessee law.
gwen thurman

i dont think that it is right to post peoples picture to the public because that is their business not yalls
Cartayl8

i guess some people are very vindictive and trouble-making.whats the point>they should spend more time helping instead of hurting people.
death or bankruptcy to this magazine…..
Tcassalom

hay busted can you com over
Tcassalom

hay busted can you com over

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