"What bothered Milwaukee Police Officer Elmer Lenz was not just that George Carlin was filling the air at Summerfest with shocking words that, in those days of relative innocence*, you didn't hear on television.

It was that Lenz's wife and 9-year-old son were in the audience to see a musical performance on the same stage.

"I couldn't believe my ears," he remembers. "I couldn't see why nobody was doing anything about it.""

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35 years ago, George Carlin was arrested at Milwaukee's Summerfest for performing his "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" routine.

Of course it would get laughed out of court-- quite literally.

Please join me in exploding things this 4th of July in honor and celebration of our freedom to say "Cocksucker" in Milwaukee.

* really? for real? fuck you.