Sheriff of the day

Citizens of Northwest Ohio, your tax dollars are being put to good use:

WESTON - The children attending Weston Church of Christ's Vacation Bible School recently have learned "there are rules, and then there are Rules."

Wood County Sheriff Mark Wasylyshyn was the guest speaker from the community on one night of the school, and he spoke to two classes, second and third graders, plus fourth through eighth grade students.

After talking to the children about safety, he showed them a thin, paperback New Testament and a three-inch thick copy of Ohio's Criminal Motor Vehicle Laws, or the Ohio Revised Code. In the classes he asked who had heard about the 10 Commandments, and about half of the children in each room raised their hands.

"God has some very simple rules for us to follow," he told the younger children. "Isn't it amazing God was able to tell us rules, just 10?"

"Those same 10 rules are in this book," the sheriff said, showing a copy of the Ohio Revised Code. He noted how simple it would be if society had just God's 10 rules. A deputy would pull a driver over to the side of the road and inform the driver which commandment he or she had broken. "It'd be real simple."

He marveled in both classes that God "in all his wonder was able to do it with 10 rules. I, as sheriff of the county, don't know every single one of these rules."

Let us pause and meditate on the stupidity...

First off, I did not know that Colonel Klink was still alive.

Second, if I get pulled over for speeding, can I point out to this sheriff that speeding isn't covered in the Ten Commandments?

Finally, did you notice what literature he used to compare the Ohio code? The New Testament. Where are the Ten Commandments located? The OLD Testament. Sweet Jesus.