He went sober and arranged for an off-duty policeman to keep him out of trouble, or at least to keep trouble away from him.
His crime is to keep trouble at arm's length and get the job done with robotic efficiency.
Yet even that massed experience cannot guarantee that they will always be able to keep trouble at bay.
A judge knocked Trouble's trust fund down to $2 million, enough to cover a $100,000-a-year security detail whose mission is to keep trouble away from Trouble.
Hopefully the scanners will keep trouble out – and that they aren't just made of sticky-backed plastic.
"They have a bad reputation," said one resident of the area, John T. Blackstone, 47. "They like to keep trouble with all the little kids out here".
"Where we come from, we keep trouble to ourselves and try to find a way to fix it," Sharon Scott, 25, one of Ms. Jones's five siblings, said in an interview.
Mandell, in the leather jacket, is a CSWAT (Cyborg Special Weapons and Tactics) officer employed to keep trouble out of the bar, but it seemed this line of work had earned him enemies.
The mainstream media has a system, known as the Kisha Club, that tends to encourage complicity with official sources and conspires to keep trouble-making riff-raff out of press conferences.
