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Women receives bill after making restroom pit stop
NBC ^ | 2/28/13 | NBC

Posted on 02/28/2013 7:44:18 PM PST by k4gypsyrose

A license plate gives police a whole lot of information about you, and law enforcement is supposed to protect those details. However, one local sheriff admits he gave a driver's name and address away, and the reason he did it is downright bizarre.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 1984; bigbrother; coruption; crime; news; policestate; restroomcharge
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Disturbing!
1 posted on 02/28/2013 7:44:28 PM PST by k4gypsyrose
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From the article:
The sheriff said that, at the time, he had probable cause to run Barnes' tag, because he was investigating it as a possible crime.
Hey there, Mr. Sheriff. Could you please provide the Penal Code section that you thought had been violated? (I didn't think so.)
2 posted on 02/28/2013 7:51:06 PM PST by Bob
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To: k4gypsyrose

If this is a violation of the law (which I would think it is) then the sheriff should be arrested and charged.


3 posted on 02/28/2013 7:56:09 PM PST by Jeff Winston
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To: Bob; Morgana

Sheriff is supposed to enforce the law, not patrol the potty of a private business


4 posted on 02/28/2013 7:56:09 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: k4gypsyrose

The police probably shouldn’t have looked up the license plate. However, it is a pet peeve of mine that businesses that maintain restrooms for their customers get taken advantage of by people who stop but do not purchase anything. My husband and I travel often by car and see this often especially at McDonalds. In my opinion it is just dishonest and rude. If one doesn’t want to purchase something, there are roadside travel stops. It is the old “something for nothing” attitude. It is just too prevalent today.


5 posted on 02/28/2013 7:56:18 PM PST by pjpblush
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The story all came about when a woman stopped to use a restaurant’s restroom and then left without buying anything.

A few days later, the woman checked her mail to find a bill from that restaurant, asking her to pay for using their restroom. And it turns out the sheriff, himself, helped the restaurant’s owners track her down.

“I just feel like I’ve been violated,” Patricia Barnes said.

Barnes received a handwritten letter that asked for $5 because she used the restroom at The Flood Zone in Houston County.


6 posted on 02/28/2013 7:58:26 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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My husband and I travel often by car and see this often especially at McDonalds.

I sometimes stop and use the restroom at McDonalds, if I need to, because I am a customer of McDonalds.

I may not buy anything on that particular instance, but I have done business with them before and will do business with them again.

7 posted on 02/28/2013 7:59:21 PM PST by Jeff Winston
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To: k4gypsyrose

Good luck in getting payment for a restroom charge. It’s probably not legal to begin with, and definitely unenforceible


8 posted on 02/28/2013 8:00:12 PM PST by Figment
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To: pjpblush

If I owned a business, I would not mind at all if travelers stopped and used the restrooms. If I ever get the urge and am shopping at a nearby town, I always use Lowe’s because they are the cleanest.

I also do a lot of shopping there tho not necessarily at the same time I visit their bathrooms


9 posted on 02/28/2013 8:02:46 PM PST by yarddog (yu)
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To: k4gypsyrose

I buy a McDouble & a Sml Fries = $2 + Tx. I time my potty stops for a McD and it works out well.


10 posted on 02/28/2013 8:04:28 PM PST by TaMoDee ( Lassez les bons temps rouler dans les 2013! Geaux, Pack, Geaux!)
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To: k4gypsyrose

What small, small villiage idiot man. Same with the resturant owner. People are sickening these days.


11 posted on 02/28/2013 8:08:09 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: yarddog

Buccee’s has people on payroll working 24/7 cleaning the restrooms.


12 posted on 02/28/2013 8:08:09 PM PST by Terry Mross (How long before America is gone?)
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To: pjpblush

Using a restroom is dishonest?


13 posted on 02/28/2013 8:09:30 PM PST by chessplayer
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It used to be gas stations. Back in the day people would stop at a gas station to use the restroom. Very common. I never heard of anyone charging for it. McDonald's is todays gas station.
14 posted on 02/28/2013 8:14:08 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: k4gypsyrose

The Sheriff had no business in giving that information to any citizen, period.


15 posted on 02/28/2013 8:16:00 PM PST by Gator113 ( REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS and leave my guns alone!!)
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To: TaMoDee

I try to avoid McDonalds as it is a bit of hit and miss with them. Sometimes clean, often not. If I am in a small town which is the county seat, I often use theirs in the Courthouse. Almost always spotless.

If not that then the city hall or other government buildings.


16 posted on 02/28/2013 8:16:16 PM PST by yarddog (yu)
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I once went on the courthouse.


17 posted on 02/28/2013 8:20:19 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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I dunno... you might change your mind! LOL

Hubby was returning to our business one day and got behind someone driving REALLY fast. As he was nearing the shop, he noticed that they had pulled into our parking lot.

According to the office manager, the guy came rushing in the door (nearly knocking over a customer) and hurried into the bathroom, which is directly off the customer lobby/office. After that, there passed several minutes of loud, strange noises from the bathroom and some awkward silence between the manager and the customer. To quote the manager, “It sounded like the bathroom scene in ‘Dreamcatcher’ was being played out in there!”

Eventually, the guy came out (without flushing), went directly to his car without saying a word and drove off. The smell would have stripped paint! His “thank you for letting me use your bathroom” was diarrhea all over the toilet and floor.


18 posted on 02/28/2013 8:20:51 PM PST by nodumbblonde ("I'm all for helping the helpless, but I don't give a rat's a** about the clueless." - Dennis Miller)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I used to buy a cup of coffee at McD if I needed to use the bathroom. I might still if the line isn’t too long. The problem is when the street people end up using the restrooms ALL the time, and/or trashing them. We were at a hamburger joint in the city and the manager had to buzz you in to the one restroom. (The other one had been trashed).

As my elderly mom left the restroom, a homeless guy sprinted in behind her almost knocking her over to catch the closing door.


19 posted on 02/28/2013 8:22:09 PM PST by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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Disturbing!

Yes definitely! You'd think NBC would hire people how know something about English grammar to write their headlines. Apparently NBC doesn't know about subject verb agreement. "Women" is the plural of "woman." "Receives" is the third person singular present tense conjugation of the verb "to receive."

20 posted on 02/28/2013 8:22:50 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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