Sometimes the cops get ahead of the bad guys for at least a little while. If you’ve ever lived outside the New York area and had a car stolen (if you have lived in New York area there’s no “if”) you will enjoy this story on NPR about “bait” cars set out, juicy and plump, for car thieves. They’re not only apprehended with the help of GPS and a remote kill switch, but hidden cameras and microphones inside the cars “offer a glimpse into the lives of thieves at moments of both giddiness and defeat.”

The NPR reporter asks whether there’s an entrapment issue, which of course there is not. But don’t worry: There will be an appeal at some point, and probably a conviction reversed — and probably in the Ninth Circuit. Nah, not entrapment. Think the inalienable constitutional right to privacy. Or maybe the thieves will be members of a “protected class” such as illegal aliens undocumented immigrants.

But I know where I’m putting my money. After all:

“They’re not the smartest folks in the world, though, because the emergency [brake] is actually pulled.” Dengeles says, describing the video of the two giggling thieves . . . “So they spend about a good two to three minutes trying to figure out how to get the car to move.”

“Not the smartest folks in the world” — now there‘s a protected class!

You guessed it: The next conviction for car theft using a bait car will be reversed … under the Americans with Disabilities Act!

Or is it “frothing” justice? Kim du Toit says, “We don’t need no stinkin’ judges!” Or actually, Kim says the following on the subject of the Second Amendment — Kim’s favorite topic:

The law is what we say it is, not what some unelected jurist thinks.

That’s either a very abstract concept of “the law” or a very scary one. And I’m entirely sympathetic with Kim on gun rights as such. But it’s an odd thing to say you’re defending the Constitution but don’t care what anyone but “we” thinks the Constitution means. What kind of constitution, what kind of rule of law, is that? Kim explains:

Unlike liberals and lawyers who need to have every jot jotted and tittle tittled, we know that the Second Amendment enumerates an individual right, and we know exactly what “shall not be infringed” means, because we’ve taken the time to study what the Founding Fathers wrote at the time, in both their public and their private letters.

Well I think some lawyers, and maybe even some liberals, have taken the time, too. And after all, Kim, it is going our way!

I don’t have a bit problem with originalism; I’m a lifelong Federalist. But when you go waving that thing and shouting that “the law is what we say it is” — that’s when I reach for my revolver.

As soon as someone teaches me which side the bullets go in.

“The best way to make sure that the defamatory or scurrilous or offensive content that brought you to my office is repeated and gets as much attention as possible is to file a lawsuit about it.”

UPDATE: And then some!