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By: Birmingham Blues » Blog Archive » Joel Montgomery: The Saga Continues

Birmingham Blues » Blog Archive » Joel Montgomery: The Saga Continues — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:42:36 +0000

[...] wasn’t, say, a Birmingham City Councilor, got drunk and fell on his face in a parking lot, went on an obscene rant harassing and threatening the police officer who was trying to help him, publicly bragged that he [...]

By: Mixed Media » NEWS: Montgomery misses court

Mixed Media » NEWS: Montgomery misses court — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:25:37 +0000

[...] April, police found Montgomery bloodied and disoriented in a Five Points South parking lot. Accoring to the police report, Montgomery was beligerent toward [...]

By: Montgomery’s final word

Montgomery’s final word — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:34:30 +0000

[...] city council meeting to talk about the recent dropping of charges against him stemming from an incident along Cobb Lane on Birmingham’s Southside in April. He read from a prepared statement and said that reports in the media that stated he would be [...]

By: Mixed Media » NEWS: Montgomery walks

Mixed Media » NEWS: Montgomery walks — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:22:04 +0000

[...] Joel Montgomery, after Montgomery promised not to sue the city. The District One councilor was arrested April 7 in a Five Points South parking lot, where police found him bloodied and belligerent. He was [...]

By: Mixed Media » Joel Montgomery Returns!

Mixed Media » Joel Montgomery Returns! — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:56:53 +0000

[...] 1 councilor was badly injured in a fall in Five Points South on April 7, shortly before he was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.Updates to follow [...]

By: Mixed Media » POLITICS: No saving face for Montgomery

Mixed Media » POLITICS: No saving face for Montgomery — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:27:15 +0000

[...] More than 100 residents from Birmingham City Council District 1 attended a town hall meeting tonight at the Parkway Christian Fellowship church, but the council representative, Joel Montgomery, was a no-show. The District 1 councilor has been wholly absent from city politics since he was arrested April 7 for public intoxication and injured in a fall. [...]

By: Mixed Media » POLITICS: Missing Montgomery

Mixed Media » POLITICS: Missing Montgomery — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:32:29 +0000

[...] police report are familiar to many of our readers by now, but if you want to refresh your memory, you can find all that here. Since the embarrassing fall, Montgomery has not returned to City Hall and has not performed his [...]

By: Mixed Media » MEDIA: Mr. Congeniality

Mixed Media » MEDIA: Mr. Congeniality — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:53:03 +0000

[...] picture (above) from his bio on the Pulitzer website. We haven’t seen a mug shot that bad since Joel Montgomery kissed the pavement. And that thing above his right ear — is that a [...]

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:42:22 +0000

“Some of our favorites included that he was found naked in his truck, that he had been found with a prostitute and that he had been injured fighting off an attempted rape by members of the “gay mafia.”

Naked in his truck. Ewwww! Thanks so much for that mental image. I’m going to have to wash my brain out with soap.

As for the gay mafia, they wouldn’t touch his nasty *ss.

By: Mixed Media » NEWS: Joel Montgomery pinched!

Mixed Media » NEWS: Joel Montgomery pinched! — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:24:21 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Montgomery’s bluelight taxi [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:52:03 +0000

I would like to thank this fine officer of the Birmingham Police Department for potentially a life or two by keeping Mr. Public Safety off the roads. Perhaps that life might have been his own, or someone else’s. In either case, he certainly would have posed “a danger to himself or others” had he been allowed to get into his little pick-up truck and try to drive home (assuming that he would have ever found his misplaced vehicle, that is). His mugshot alone should be conclusive evidence that he was a danger to himself.

As for proof that he was drunk, how about a confession out of his own lips?! The words “I haven’t been this drunk before I f***ing went to Iraq” seem somewhat suspicious to me.

Moreover, this all happened in Five Points South on a Friday night/Saturday morning. I’m quite sure there were, and are, plenty of witnesses to Mr. Montgomery’s festivities, including: the bartender(s) who served him; other patrons of whichever club, bar or restaurant he chose to patronize until 2AM while buying only one drink; the paramedics, firemen, police officers and Five Points South area bystanders at whom he shouted obscenities; the nurses and medical personnel at the hospital; and finally, the workers and officers at the jail.

If it is true that Montgomery only had one drink, then it begs the question: What caliber of man behaves this way? Aside from Don Imus, I mean. Just as bad, what kind of person–other than Mel Gibson–talks so abusively to an officer of the law?

Regardless of how many drinks Mr. Public Safety did or did not have, I can imagine inebriates around the area thinking, “That Joel Montgomery character sure gives us drunks a bad name.”