Let's Git-R-Done!
Posted on 02/28/2015 1:38:46 PM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy
A string of errors on the part of troopers with the Nevada Highway Patrol resulted in a humiliating and frightening experience last year for a couple from Washington who were pulled over while cruising down the highway in their classic 1962 Chevy Impala.
Now, the couple, Robin and Beverly Bruins, has filed suit against the troopers and the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Trouble started for the Bruins when they were pulled over by a trooper after he initiated a “routine records check” on the car. When the check did not return a match, the trooper pulled the couple over, Las Vegas’ KLAS reported.
When the trooper ran the registration number which the couple gave him, he didn’t include a “plus” sign. The vehicle showed up as an expired registration for a 2011 Harley Davidson, as a dismissal of charges document explains.
That mistake was compounded when the trooper relayed the Impala’s VIN to a dispatcher who then mis-keyed one of the digits.
When the entry bounced back as a stolen vehicle from California, troopers then proceeded to badger Robin, forcing him to take off his shirt and kneel on the ground before ultimately arresting him.
Dash camera footage recorded the entire dramatic scene.
“Driver! Remove your keys from the ignition and put them on the roof now!” a trooper commands.
Robin complied and says he made a joke to his wife but then turned around to find himself staring at drawn guns.
“And I turned and looked back and saw three gun barrels pointed at me. And, obviously it hit me. Whoa! What’s going on here. To this day I have never experienced anything like looking down the barrel of guns like that,” he told KLAS.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Hey buddy!!!! If you don’t want to do the time, then don’t do the crime!!!!!
/bootlicks
I don’t...
Guess news the Dems/Liberals/Commies/tyrants don’t want known will have to be faxed from desktop to desktop. (sort of kidding)
During the French Revolution, anyone found to be a counterrevolutionary got a one way trip to the guillotine. Everyone knows this. What is not so well known is that antigovernment newspapers were shut down. People starting printing and copying single page newsletters that were passed around from person to person in order to provide a source of information outside the official government narrative. Bookstores were on of the distribution nodes for these underground newsletters.
The BBC provided a radio based version of this service for occupied Europe in World War II.
This will happen here unless we stand up and stop it. We don’t seem to be much interested in doing that at the moment.
Not to mention that in Nevada bike plates are a smaller size.
Seems like no dogs were hurt.
Liability insurance would be a good idea. Give each officer an allowance that are base for yearly premiums of good performing officers. Let the individual officers pick up additional premiums that insurance companies assess for actual performance.
That’s a big “but”.
The “good guys” need to slow down, it’s not a game, it’s serious business.
But hiring standards are low, supervision is cursory and the public apathetic. Apathetic until it happens to them or a family member that is.
Liability insurance would be a good idea. Give each officer an allowance that are base for yearly premiums of good performing officers. Let the individual officers pick up additional premiums that insurance companies assess for actual performance.
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Holding breath....
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Many cops are so arrogant that it never occurs to them that they may have made a mistake. This story reinforces the argument I made recently about the local cops that they seem to be looking for something to get on you rather than serving and protection you.
Grey’s Law: “Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
—Ref: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HanlonsRazor
+1.
Judge: The officers acted in good faith. Case dismissed.
Ping.
You would think that the toll road people could see a license plate that has the word "TRAILER" clearly written on it in the photograph they mailed me along with a bill and figure out that the plate belongs to a trailer and not an almost 60 year old antique vehicle with original plates with the same number. But that would be giving the toll road people credit for having a measurable IQ.
Is that sarcasm?
(Because I haven't made anyone cry today. ;))
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