As I mentioned in my earlier post I attended the Santa Clara County Fair last weekend.

Making my way through the exhibit halls I saw the booths for the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose Police Department. Each booth had stickers and coloring books for the kids, and job application information for potential recruits.

Just across from the SJPDfolks was a booth selling wallets, purses and other “designer” items from Coach, Gucci, Chanel and LV. Knowing full well a Chanel bag costs several hundreddollars - not $15, I had a pretty good idea it was less than legit.

So, again me being a good citizen, I politely asked one of the uniformed SJPDbooth-jockeys if he realizedhis neighbor was hawking fake goods. He looked over in that direction, giving a response while chuckling, “Ya know, lots of people like that stuff.”

At the next booth, there were two uniformed Santa Clara County Sherrif deputies, that I posed the same query to. Their response…”You’d better call Customs, it’s not our job.”

Maybe they are correct…who cares? Bootleg music, DVD andcomputer software, who does it hurt? Fake autographed sports memorabilia and licensed Sponge Bob stuff. So what.

Hello, Chuck Reed, mayor of San Jose. Your city, your cops, your citizens. Just wanted you to know.

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