Posted on 09/24/2013 12:41:36 PM PDT by Nachum
A man in Somers, N.Y., hatched a plan to catch the individual responsible for allegedly stealing his pro-gun signs repeatedly from his front yard. He bought a trail cam, set it up near the sign — and then waited.
When he learned that his sign had been taken yet again, he was elated because he knew he had finally caught the person responsible on camera.
He just didn’t expect that person to be a uniformed police officer.
Assuming the photos are entirely authentic, a police officer with the Somers Police Department appears to have been caught on camera ripping the sign, which reads: “Protect the Second Amendment,” from the man’s front yard. It wasn’t immediately clear if the police officer had removed the sign previously too or if the action was ordered by Somers PD.
TheBlaze has left messages with the Somers Police Department as well as the man who claims his signs were removed from his property on multiple occasions.
Here’s the photo evidence, which the man posted on the pro-gun forum NYFirearms.com on Monday (also notice the timestamps of the photos):
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
A colleague had his daily morning newspaper repeatedly stolen.
One evening, he carefully rolled up a bunch of dog sh*t in a paper and bag.
And that was the end of that.
Send your comments to the Somers PD website – you can find it here:
http://www.somersny.com/Pages/SomersNY_Webdocs/comments
Call the Chief his ownself:
Chief Michael Driscoll
914-232-9622
He probably put the sign on the public easement in front of his home. Cities and villages routinely remove any signs put on any such public property. However, if the sign was up on the man’s front lawn the city would have no right to remove his sign.
Cities can generally ban yard signs as a regulation of commercial speech. But not political signs, which are protected by the First Amendment.
FYI. See above.
1st GLARING problem, is living in ny.
Whoops! Wrong dude. This is for fwdude.
The police could take the sign down if it were illegally posted, but can they take his property away?
Wouldn’t they just pull it out of the ground and lay it down?
Or pull it out of the ground and bring it to his door and knock and explain that he can’t post the sign there?
It’s always such a surprise when the biggest supporters of the idea that only government law enforcement agents should have guns are often government law enforcement agents that have guns.
So, there are bad cops. What does that prove? And this is a BAD cop - he should be fired and probably tried and convicted.
But to paint all police with this broad brush is stupid.
Westchester County. Hillary’s stomping grounds.
Or pull it out of the ground and bring it to his door and knock and explain that he can't post the sign there?
It was dark. Too dark to shoot the dog. Lucky dog.
This Harry Homeowner will be lucky not to be charged.
I believe a recent act makes it a crime for citizen-comrades to annoy cops in New York state.
The sign annoyed the police, so they confiscated it.
Don't think this is entirely correct as easements gives the access rights to the target, not the source. It would all be spelled out in the easement as there aren't any specific easement laws -- they are all custom in one way or another.
My city called me up one day (Oceanside, CA) and said they wanted 4' easement on the back of my property so they could widen the road and install a right turn only lane 1 block down before my house. Since the city actually wanted to asphalt over the 4' and allow cars to use it, my lawyer said it's not an easement so the city couldn't force the issue. It died because the city can't force an easement without consideration, and they didn't want to give any consideration. I guess all contracts need considerations from both sides.
Since the officer was in uniform wonder if homeowner can sue city/county civil court for violation of free speech etc?
A little used, nasty, black axle grease applied all along the sides of the sign would make it a slippery varmint...but also provide the officer with a going away present.
Guy needs to do what I do with my political signs. Rub it well with Poison Ivy/Oak/Sumac. Caught me ex-neighbor’s kid that way. “Hey! Joe! Where ya going with that poison ivy on your hands?”
Signs are usually a zoning enforcement issue, the police are not usually involved in zoning issues.
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