Community helpers

Meredith has been learning about "community helpers" at school. People like doctors, teachers, firefighters, and police officers.

Today's Star Tribune takes a look at an unnamed community helper who didn't seem to live up to the "helper" part of "community helper." The column, by Nick Coleman, is called Minneapolis cop dug a hole for himself in shovel dustup. I'm generally not a fan of Coleman's writing, but this piece does make you shake your head.

The general story is that a woman was trying to help dig out a bus stuck in the snow, full of people from the casino, at midnight. She spotted a shovel leaning against the police station and asked to borrow it for 15 minutes. The response she got was not so much in the "helpful department." The incident culminates with a citation and court date.