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.)
If this is a violation of the law (which I would think it is) then the sheriff should be arrested and charged.
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.
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.
Good luck in getting payment for a restroom charge. It’s probably not legal to begin with, and definitely unenforceible
I buy a McDouble & a Sml Fries = $2 + Tx. I time my potty stops for a McD and it works out well.
What small, small villiage idiot man. Same with the resturant owner. People are sickening these days.
The Sheriff had no business in giving that information to any citizen, period.
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."
Hey restaurant. Prove I used your restroom. Was it me driving the car? Was it me in your restroom? Maybe all I did was check my hair in the mirror - how would you know? Surely you don’t have surveillance in there, right? Actually, I just went in to see the general cleanliness level of your restrooms - my wife is very particular. When I saw how bad your men’s room was, we went down the interstate another exit.
Maybe there were no family dogs that needed shooting and he had nothing better to do. I wonder what the coding was for the citation or whatever he used.
McDonalds and nice hotels are my picks for clean public restrooms.
So who’s the Sheriff of Mayberry this time, Goober?
At most she may have commited some kind of theft of service.
Check back in 6 months, after this I’m going out on a limb to say that the Flood Zone will no longer be in business.
I normally use the restroom or at least look at it before eating is a new restaurant. If the restroom is filthy, I won’t eat there. Perhaps this McD’s simply failed standards.
Why is this on a Boston TV station, and who the Hell even knew that WHDH was still on the air? The strangest aspect of this whole story is the WHDH angle.
In 2010 I stopped on Alligator Alley in FL to take a midnight pee. As I began I saw something about four feet away I thought was a retread tire blow out. It moved and I didn’t whiz for a week.
I used to be a deputy sheriff in that county back in the 1990s. I left after 11 months because of shady activities. About a year after I left, the Chief Deputy and a Sergeant were indicted for drug trafficking.
This doesn't surprise me one bit. It is a very small, rural county - the type of place where "Boss Hogg" politics prevail.