Staff Writer
McALLEN, Texas - Reporter Junior Bonner has been fired after allegations surfaced that he has been taking free shrimp plates for the past six months from a seafood restaurant in Brownsville. The surprise dismissal was announced this morning by Tribune Editor Patrick Alcatraz, who said, "If there is something I abhor it is reporters taking free food from anyone. Our policy is simple - you take free food; you're fired."
Bonner, a native of Colorado, had been with the online publication less than a year. It was not known who fingered Junior, but rumors surfaced as early as last month. Reached at his mobile home in Combes, Bonner said: "I'm guilty, yep. I took those shrimp plates without paying for them. Was it wrong? Absolutely. Does it taint my reporting for The Tribune? Yes, I suppose it does. Should anyone believe what I write? Perhaps not..."
Bonner said he would be taking a few days off and then fly to Amsterdam for a little vacation time. He would not say whether his local girlfriend, Sissy Estrada, would be going with him.
Alcatraz, who only yesterday returned to the editorship of The Tribune, said he takes a hard line against any reporter receiving anything gratis. "Taking freebies soils the profession," he said. "A reporter trading in his ethics for a plate of shrimp? That is not a reporter. That is a freeloader. Junior Bonner knew our employment policies..."
Reporter Ricardo Klement, the senior staffer in the newsroom, said this: "What Junior did is unforgivable. And I agree that his cowboy ass should have been fired. People without morals don't belong in Journalism. I wish him luck, but know that he's a rotten dude, as they say in his world. What man takes free food anyway? It's not something a man ought to be doing..."
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17 comments:
FLYING TO EUROPE, DAMN, HOW MUCH DO YOU PAY YOUR REPORTERS. HE LIVES IN A MOBILE HOME, WITH A MUCH YOUNGER WOMAN, he bums around for food, drinks outdated beer, smokes leftover tabacco. Likes to chase women. This guy has no shame. Please no more hiring of goofy looking, worn out, urban cowboys, that even know what a horse looks like.
Eliot, make sure that when he leaves check his worn out coat, he probably is stealing pens and pencils. He looks like the type, yess, sireee!!! Pilgrims, a real dud cowpoke.
What a fink, bumming free food, smoking buglers, drinking lone star, Eliot, the minute I lay eyes on him. I knew he was a bum. Jr. Bonner, I don't know you, but your appearence gives you away.
He was probably getting paid to write good articles about the srimp place,and of course getting free food.
Yesss...sireeee, a real bummer.
Eliot, I know you are no friend of Harlingen, nothing wrong with that. Have you seen, that the economic situation in the Redneck city is the worse. It was on a tv program on abc.
Check it out.
A special note to Jr. Bonner. I didn't mean to be hateful about your appearence. Or your free loading ways. But, JR. you belong in Colorado. Please don't go to Europe, customs might not let you into the county.
SESSI:...We are finding out much more on Junior. It seems he was using the City of Brownsville library's computer, which pissed me off because kids could not use the one Junior used when he was there, which was everyday. In the end, he was nothing but a deadbeat... - Editor
So he didn't even own a lab top, what a thief, stealing from the tax-payers, to write articles, and getting free food. You know, he was probably writing for other publications under a different name.
So he uses public computers to write articles, gets paid, than goes and gets free meals.
Have you checked, for all we know he hangs out at the Palms lounge, with Hassee.
Not that I go to the places, but I have read about them.
Good riddance, I will donate $10.00 for his one way ticket to the outland of Alaska. Good by Jr. Bonner. And stay gone.
SESSI:...Yeah, we're getting more bizarre info on Junior Bonner. But we're letting it go. He's fired and that's that. Who is Hasee? Don't know the name, and likely do not want to know. Junior was on familiar terms with the weird, like John, the Apostle... - Editor
Say, this Jr. Bonner thing is nothing but alot of science fiction/fantasy, am I correct? Because it all reminds me of an episode of 2 and a half men. Where Robert Wagner played the part of Junior.
GLADYS:...Science fiction? Ha ha ha ha. Science fiction! No, no, no. Plus, we're not familiar with that movie. Junior Bonner, however, is a singular talent, someone Hollywood waould want Steve McQueen to play. You take it from there... - Editor
Poor Jr. now unemployed, with a pretty wife, and beat up car.
Patrick, did you at least gave him a pack of buglers. OR maybe a bag of donuts. Harlingen, has a homeless shelter. Please tell him it is on E street and Polk. I just hope he doesn't scare anyone at the shelter.
And the poor old cowpoke shuffles off into the sunset, alone and on foot. His beloved has abandoned him, drawn into the whirling revolving door as you enter Patrick's den. Like the doomed women before her, she goes looking for love in all the wrong places. Meanwhile Jr's huge belt buckle is the only thing keeping him connected to the dusty earth by it's sheer weight alone. That same belt buckle that fronted his shriveled belly when he lost the now infamous moral battle with the free shrimp. Come on Patrick, have a heart. A living, breathing, walking legacy of our western heritage is about to pass through those hallowed bat wing doors of the last standing watering hole, never to return, all because of some shrimp? Even if they were the last shrimp out of Louisiana, they aren't worth the downfall of Jr. Didn't you even once feel like Adam should have had at least a bite of the apple? M
ANONYMOUS M:...You may have a point about Junior Bonner. He blew it by taking free food while working as a reporter. However, of course, we believe that even the snake must be forgiven. BTW, it wasn't an apple at the Garden of Eden, as Biblical lore seems to indicate. History shows us that the Persian ground upon which the Garden rested likely did not avail apples as much as it did figs... - Editor
And the fig leaves came in handy later on in the human scandal. Nothing like a good multi-tasking tree. M
Patrick, the buckle on Jr. Bonner's belt has the state of Texas, are you guys sure this free loader is from Colorado??
He is probably from Floresville Texas, and has never worked a day in his life. I don't think he knows where the state of Colorado is located.
ANONYMOUS:...Junior was indeed from Colorado. The belt buckle was a giftfrom a woman whose mother had been a stripper at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club in Dallas. It was purchased at the State Fair of Texas in 2003, according to Junior... - Editor
Wow, I don't know about the Tribune anymore, I know I wouldn't work there. Heck, you can loose your life in no time at all. I hope Eliot, stays in South America, heck they might decide to shoot him to. He is about the only writer, with good common sense. A descent man, I might add.
An Open letter to Jr Bonner:
Mr. Bonner you better come home and take care of Mom, Alcatraz is planning to make a move on her.
He sent you to the red district in Amsterdam, hoping you will get what Ron Mexico sr. got.
To add to insult he is sending you naked so they can shoot you sooner.
Poor Jr. Bonner, no job, no woman, no clothing, no lone star beer, no buglers, and in a foreign country. You mean you fired him, because he was eating free shrimp from a restaurant. Everybody does that,who doesn't get a free meal every once in awhile.
You got rid of him, to sink your claws on Sissi.
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