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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: gofaster on June 03, 2003, 02:30:47 PM
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Hey, girls! Who's ready to party? I think I know somebody who's been a baddddd girl and needs to be punished! Woo-hoo! You look dangerous - I better use my handcuffs! Yeaah!
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Bachelorettes Mistake Policeman for Stripper After Officer Arrives at Party on Noise Complaint
The Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Fla. June 3 —
A police officer arriving at a bachelorette party because of a noise complaint was mistaken as the entertainment.
The partygoers thought Gainesville Police Officer Jamie Hope was the stripper, and they didn't realize he was legitimate until he drove away with the bride-to-be in handcuffs.
"They didn't go so far as to try and grab him," Gainesville Police Sgt. Keith Kameg said.
But they were wondering when the show would start.
"When he was taking her to his car, everyone thought he was the stripper and everyone said, 'OK, the warning has gone far enough. Are you going to start stripping?'" Kameg said.
The 30-year-old Hope, a married, six-year veteran of the force, was dispatched to the party early Sunday because of a noise complaint.
He issued a noise warning, and as part of procedure, he also ran a warrants check on the bride-to-be. That's when he found that the 24-year-old woman had an outstanding warrant for a violation of probation involving an almost 2-year-old open-container citation.
Court records show she had failed to pay $11 in connection with the citation, resulting in the probation violation and a warrant. The woman's bond set Sunday at $11, and she was released.
"He had to make an arrest," Kameg said. "We have to do that by law."
Said Hope: "I told her about the open container. Her friends, they were saying, 'I'm sure he's joking.' I guess she was waiting for somebody to tell her the joke was over. I don't think it hit home until we were actually in the car."
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we need to get the open container criminals off the streets to make our country safe.
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No, we have to enforce our laws when people are too stupid to pay an $11 fine, rather than skipping it and risking being carted off to jail at some time in the future.
I saw this kind of thing more than once while working in intake in the local co jail. Idiots didn't pay some piddly fine (the smallest was a ~ $50 fine for angling w/o a license), so a warrant is issued. Said idiot gets pulled over for random traffic offense, license is run for warrants by procedure, and now idiot gets a trip to the jail to be printed and photographed, gets a court date, and also has the joy of having his car towed and the expenses associated with that.
Nobody's fault but your own if you don't pay your fines.
SOB
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There was a TV commercial with a similar premise, except it was a bachelor party and a female cop.
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Originally posted by funkedup
There was a TV commercial with a similar premise, except it was a bachelor party and a female cop.
I vote for Pfunked's version of the commercial!
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pay your piddly fines, the govt needs your piddly money, some times i think there is a law against everything.
"angling w/o a license"....hardened criminals
i think our police and courts should work on real crimes not "piddly" crimes.
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Anyone remember that sting operation a while back where all these wanted criminals were invited to a "fake" sporting event (or the sort)....and then ole SWAT swoops in and all the "Woohoo this is my lucky day" guys got lugged off to jail?
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Good point John, there should be no fines for anything. Apart from murder, rape and assault, we should pretty much be able to do whatever we want without fear of being arrested. And, if for some extreme reason a fine is warranted, this penalty should in no way be enforced.
SOB
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get real. That cop must have had his baton up his bellybutton if he took that girl to the jail because of an $11 open container citation...
Geez what a retard.
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He didn't take her to jail because of the citation, he took her to jail because of an arrest warrant issued because she didn't pay her ticket.
Take it up with the judge if you don't think arrest warrants should be issued for failing to pay a fine. The cop's just doing his job... it's not his place to question whether the warrant is a "good" one.
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A warrant is a court ORDER to any Law Enforcement Officer to arrest and take to jail the person who has already shown a lack of maturity and inability to take responsibility for their actions. You get a ticket, summons or any other legal problem that requires you to appear in court you had better figure on going or pay a harsher penalty later for your lack of responsibility.
The warrant does not grant exceptions to service.
Don't like the situation??? Tough and grow up while you're at it. :rolleyes:
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Yeah, because no cop in the history of mankind has ever been able to bend the rules and look the other way.
My statement still stands.
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If you look after the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves...
I think pretty much the same applies to Law Enforcement
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Originally posted by john9001
we need to get the open container criminals off the streets to make our country safe.
No, we need to get the open container criminals off the streets so they don't cross the center line and kill ourselves or our family.
Geez, Mondo, what is so difficult to understand about that. Drunk drivers kill, so they need to be thrown in the hooskow for as long as it takes for them to learn not to drive drunk ever again.
And as it's already been said in this thread, the dip**** woman should've paid her fine when she had the chance. It's not the cop's fault.
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Originally posted by Hortlund
Yeah, because no cop in the history of mankind has ever been able to bend the rules and look the other way.
My statement still stands.
You're right. The cop should have risked his career because she was too stupid to pay her fine. What a jerk he was.
SOB
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HHmmm Cop goes to a loud party call and ends up running a name through the computer. A warrant pops up. A record of the check and result it brought up is automatically made. It may even have been over the open radio whereby EVERYONE on the frequency, including the Officers supervisors, can and likely did hear it. Now the cop is going to be a "nice" guy and not make the arrest that was ORDERED by a JUDGE (you Do know about court orders don't you hortlund?????) because a person didn't have the maturity to take care of a minor infraction properly???
Yeah you're right, the Cop should have put his job and families welfare in jeapardy over this situation. After all he doesn't need the raise he might have gotten that year or even his job as much as the tard needs to be a tard. :rolleyes:
Some folks ought to walk the walk before talking the talk. ;) :p
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ok ok...what the sodding hell is an open container violation?
And an $11 fine??
What was in the container...weapons grade plutonium?
Tronsky
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Tronski, it refers to her driving around with an open container of alcohol in the car (think beer in hand). Some parts of the country seem to think that the open container law means that if you open it, you have to finish it. $11 is a pretty light fine for what amounts to a precursor to a DUI.
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Originally posted by Maverick
HHmmm Cop goes to a loud party call and ends up running a name through the computer. A warrant pops up. A record of the check and result it brought up is automatically made. It may even have been over the open radio whereby EVERYONE on the frequency, including the Officers supervisors, can and likely did hear it. Now the cop is going to be a "nice" guy and not make the arrest that was ORDERED by a JUDGE (you Do know about court orders don't you hortlund?????) because a person didn't have the maturity to take care of a minor infraction properly???
Yeah you're right, the Cop should have put his job and families welfare in jeapardy over this situation. After all he doesn't need the raise he might have gotten that year or even his job as much as the tard needs to be a tard. :rolleyes:
Some folks ought to walk the walk before talking the talk. ;) :p
Now now, no need to roll your eyes at me young man.
We dont have the same system here in Sweden.
Basically there are two options if a criminal is wanted. Either he is wanted by the police. In those cases, the courts doesnt have anything to do with it. A prosecuter issues a wanted-eh-"document" (dunno how to translate that correctly). That document is processed down the chain of command to all the police units through the computer system, and "the old way" (several very big stacks of wanted documents kept at the police station, that the cops go through whenever they have the time)
OR a person can be wanted by a court. But that is only in severe cases, like murder, brutal rapes, big drug offenders etc. I worked at a court a little over two years and we NEVER issued such a warrant. Normally we just let the police and prosecuters do their stuff, and when they are done, they come to us.
Not only that, in Sweden there is a law pretty much saying that if the punishment for the offense is no higher than fines. The officer at the scene can decide to let it slip. Or in other words, if the "crime" committed is not punishable by anything more severe than a fine, then the officer can look the other way and not report the "crime".
To me a $11 debt for some lameass BS (what exactly is an open container anyway? maybe I dont understand this because of the language barrier) sounds just like something that would have one of our cops say "well, dont do it again miss" and that would be the end of it.
And as for court orders, we kinda dont have that here either. Apparently it is common in the US that the judge can order someone to do something...like "This court orders you to repaint your house" or whatever. In Sweden the court is bound by what the parties say in the lawsuit, leaving the court basically two options, do as the plaintiff wants or do as the defendant wants, or some inbetween solution.
In a criminal case, the court is bound by the law, leaving no room whatsoever for anything other than determening guilt, and determening punishment as stated by the law. There is no "This court orders you to apologize to all your victims and then help them rebuild their house" or something like that.
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OMG I just read what mjolnir said.
You yanks have a veeery weird legal system.
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Why did he run her name in the first place? I never heard of running a name as procedure for giving a noise ticket. Lol, a noise ticket for a bachelorette party, c'mon.