Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges 876
a_nonamiss writes "A Georgia couple, apparently tired of people speeding past their house, installed a camera and radar gun on their property. After it was installed, they caught a police office going 17MPH over the posted limit. They brought this to the attention of the local police department, and are now being forced to appear in front of a judge to answer to charges of stalking."
Moo (Score:3, Funny)
Well, according to the article "They have said they did so in hopes of convincing neighbors to slow down to create a safe environment for their son."
thinkofthechildren [slashdot.org] will get you a lot futher than speed [slashdot.org].
Believe it or not... (Score:5, Funny)
Those police offices are a real danger (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, that's one fast police office!
Another Arrest (Score:3, Funny)
Moo (Score:5, Funny)
Certainly, capricious captions claim: Careless Cop Caught Cutting Celerity Cap; Criminal Court Charges Capturing Couple
Cartersville: Child-caring couple connect camera, chronicalling cop cutting celertity cap. Court...
Re:The police are not there to protect the citizen (Score:5, Funny)
If local cops are mis-behaving, this is what IAD is for, and if IAD is corrupt, that's what the FBI is for, and if the FBI is corrupt, that's what Canada is for. :)
Re:Those police offices are a real danger (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The police are not there to protect the citizen (Score:1, Funny)
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
Re:Those police offices are a real danger (Score:5, Funny)
Desert island (Score:3, Funny)
But you might get visited by pirates.
Re:I see this all the time. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Moo (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The police are not there to protect the citizen (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Service to whom (Score:3, Funny)
The police are there to do the paperwork after you are unable to protect yourself.
Or to clean up the mess after you're able to successfully protect yourself. ;)
Re:To all the cop haters! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The police are not there to protect the citizen (Score:4, Funny)
I for one, welcome our new hypocritical, speeding, scaly reptilian cat overlords!
Re:Moo (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Moo (Score:4, Funny)
"A Georgia couple, apparently tired of people speeding past their house, installed a camera and radar gun on their property. After it was installed, they caught a police office going 17MPH over the posted limit. They brought this to the attention of the local police department, and are now being forced to appear in front of a judge to answer to charges of stalking."
Wow! Mobile police offices - must need a lot of horsepower to tow that thing!
Re:Moo (Score:5, Funny)
they caught a police office going 17MPH over the posted limit.
So whether or not the office was speeding is a non-issue. I'm pretty sure driving an entire police office along a residential street is illegal in some way.
Re:The police are not there to protect the citizen (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The police are not there to protect the citizen (Score:3, Funny)
Hint: in the meantime, learn to club seals- it's all food if it ain't trying to eat You!
All of these posts suggesting 'move somewhere else' seem to be missing the point, and also that mindset contributes to the current problem.
Okay, say we (in the USA), all move to Canada....we will bring the 'cancer' with us, infect Canada with the same ol' BS, then what?
I say fight the infestation where it is, then we can safely annex Canada as per the Fallout series games. (just joking!-WTF with that?)
Oh yes, while I'm on a roll...Kill all the whales, wipe out all rainforests, and invest heavily in petrochem research- fsck all alternative energy!
Did I forget anything?
Re:Moo (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Give me a fucking break. (Score:1, Funny)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0407887/ [imdb.com]
Re:Believe it or not... (Score:5, Funny)
I always wanted a hopped up muscle car when I was younger. I couldn't afford one. Now I can, and I have one. It is a '70 Mustang, and her name is Bessie. Bessie is the prototypical juvenile, male-caveman, scratch you crotch and drink cheap beer car. Chromed engine, dual exhaust, 250 horsepower, big tires, tra la la la.
I'm driving Bessie on Beach Boulevard behind an ancient guy in a beat up truck. He decides to turn in front of me without a blinker. I accelerate to swerve and avoid him, and this asshole, overaerobicized woman jumps in front of my car with her hand up.
Meet Ethel, the neighborhood busybody/nuisance. She proceeds to yell in my window, "Hey, slow down you fucking idiot." I'm a well-bred, mellow guy by nature, so I ignore this. As I drive away, she yells, "asshole" at me again. Twice? Fuck that. I turn around and drive up next to her.
"Do you have a problem?" I ask.
"Yeah, why are you driving like an idiot?"
"I was driving like an idiot? How, exactly."
"You were speeding. I watched you."
" You were? I see. How did you measure my speed?"
(Ever the interrogator, I am.)
"I heard you."
"So, you measured my speed by ear?"
"I can hear."
" How fast did you HEAR me going?"
"Look," she says, "I don't have to take this. Here comes a cop. I'll wave him down."
THE POLICE? This woman is a trip. She waves him down, and proceeds to tell him that she observed me speeding.
"What happened?" he asks. I told him the story, and told him that I accelerated to an indicated 33 mph (the speed limit is 35) to avoid a collision.
"Are those mufflers legal?" Ethel asks. She's pushing it. I reply, "I have a C.A.R.B. exemption for them." I give the paperwork to the cop.
She tries to find another thing to screw me with. She says "What about those big tires? They CAN'T be legal. " I began feeling little overheated gears in the back of my head start to turn.
"These tires were available on the 1970 Boss 429, " I told the cop, " Which makes them street legal as a replacement."
Ethel gets angry. She whines, "So you're not going to give out any tickets to this asshole?"
The cop says, "No, I am not."
I've about had it. So I say, "Sir, this woman told you that she left the street at the corner, and she met up with my car here. According to Title 39, pedestrians have to cross the street at a right angle. This woman admitted she crossed at a 45-degree angle, which is a ticketable offense."
"What?" The cop looks confused.
"Also, she told you that she walked in front of my car to stop me. A citizen can't detain someone without probable cause, under Terry v. Ohio (My new favorite case). Since she couldn't measure my speed, she had no probable cause to detain me. That is an indictable offense."
The cop says, " But, I didn't see any of this."
"But," I said, "I did, and, as an officer of the Court, I can demand her arrest. I'll agree to dismiss the Illegal Detention charge, but I want her cited for not crossing at a right angle and Hazardous Conduct on a Public Street."
The cop called his Lieutenant, and after the cop told the story, he authorized the summonses.
She went home with $215.00 worth of traffic tickets, and they are worth a total of four points against her license, as well as the appropriate insurance surcharge!
Of course, if she demands a trial I won't prosecute. But the look on her face as she walked away was more than enough satisfaction for me.
Yea, I've passed the bar, and I'm on a mission from God.
Re:Desert island (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Moo (Score:2, Funny)
but if some peckish beaver were to decide to partake of a nearby tree that just happened to fall...
...you did say it's the township, not you, responsible for maintaining (discovering) the state of the road 0:-)
Trouble is holding the beaver against that tree until he's hungery.
Re:The police are not there to protect the citizen (Score:2, Funny)
Everybody knows that law enforcement can find you based on a single crappy analog recording of your back by extrapolating the reflection of your shoelaces in the window reflection behind you and tracing it back to a single batch sold at some obscure shop with an easily harassed salesman, don't you watch shows like CSI?
Re:Moo (Score:3, Funny)
Police office (Score:3, Funny)
Of course! What town doesn't have a law against that on the books?
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Re:Moo (Score:3, Funny)
For some reason I don't think countries come from beavers...
Hungery? Where's hungery? Are they at war with Bulimia?