#1 2015-04-01 19:26:29
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When I was in hospital the other week I missed a court date, it completely skipped my mind cuz well I was spending a week in the cardiac unit. Got out of hospital and a few days later my mother collapses with a sub-dermal hemotoma and has open skull brain surgery ending up in a coma for a few weeks. I, as the PoA, am rushing around trying to sort everything and all of the relatives, etc, basically being frazzled. I suspected I might have missed a court date but my world was shit and it continued to slip my mind earning me a bench warrant.
Melon's drove my car to work today and on the way home she got pulled over, seems the local fuzz were running plates as commuters went by and pulled my bench warrant. He stopped her and searched her for that, fucking ridiculous bullshit. Aside from me not staying on top of my business it seems to me this was a little bit on the wrong side of the illegal search amendment or more correctly to say a sign of the times.
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#2 2015-04-01 20:00:05
I am really sorry about all your shit. I'd also like to thank you for giving me a little perspective on my shit (shitty but not nearly as shitty as yours).
I hope everybody in your life, including you, gets all better real quick.
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#3 2015-04-01 20:24:51
Jeez. get your ducks in a row (i.e. documentation of hospital stay etc) get a lawyer and talk to the f'n creeps. Good luck Emster!
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#4 2015-04-01 20:53:33
Most of it is my fault.
Aside from that, are they actually allowed to just run plates these days?
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#5 2015-04-01 21:13:23
Emmeran wrote:
Most of it is my fault.
Aside from that, are they actually allowed to just run plates these days?
Maybe, but a note from your cardiologist will help. Good luck.
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#7 2015-04-01 23:40:52
Emmeran wrote:
Most of it is my fault.
True, but it was an innocent fuck up. I don't understand how this was a reason to search the vehicle.
It's said that ignorance of the law is no excuse. Find me one cop, lawyer judge, legislator... hell anyone that is not ignorant about some portion of the law and I will buy you a pony. A golden fleeced blowjob pony that eats toxic waste and shits hashish.
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#8 2015-04-02 08:31:23
Weren't the police "wrong doers" when you got a DUI there too?
Or Public Drunken or something like that.
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#9 2015-04-02 13:54:56
square wrote:
License plates are scanned all the time; millions of them per year.
From what I can tell, this collection activity by police pales in comparison to the companies providing private collection of licence plate data. Many of these companies were started by repo agencies and now focus on gathering up data from readers placed by all sorts of private companies. They do big business selling the data back to police. Who then do not have to worry about what little restriction state laws stipulate and pesky budgeting for equipment and manpower. It is the wild west out there and there are little to no privacy protections from this commercial sphere activity.
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#10 2015-04-03 07:02:44
Bigcat wrote:
Weren't the police "wrong doers" when you got a DUI there too?
Or Public Drunken or something like that.
They weren't "wrong doers", they just turned into assholes when I admitted I had been a career Jarhead. They had asked me if I had been in the service because I was being "extremely polite", then they put their hands on their pistols.
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#11 2015-04-03 12:11:20
They can run plates any time they want, since that is not a "search" for Fourth Amendment purposes. As for searching Melons (pic please) I cannot imagine what the justification was. Perhaps they thought she was hiding you on her person. It sounds like one of many millions of constitutional violations for which there is no remedy, unless they hurt her, damaged something, or it led to her arrest. Then you might have something.
I'm sorry about your run of bad luck.
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#12 2015-04-03 14:33:55
Well, if it weren't for bad luck....
"Life" for most people is a double entendre
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#13 2015-04-09 01:59:00
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
From what I can tell, this collection activity by police pales in comparison to the companies providing private collection of licence plate data.
Two billion records in private hands - for sale to the Feds.
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#14 2015-04-09 06:47:58
I know there are thousands of literary references to this yet the only thing that comes to my mind at this early hour is "Red Barchetta"
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