Attack Of The Trash Police!

JohnJacobH RKBA Commentary ^ | 07/10/10 | JohnJacobH RKBA Commentary

[Copernicus]

Yes, Virginia, there are such creatures as Trash Police.

No word on whether they are armed or whether they will break down your door at midnight and shoot your dog.

They do however seem to have taken instruction from former President William Jefferson “BJ” Clinton on the proper definition of the word “is” since they are able to distinguish between the lawful use of a trash can and a refuse receptacle.

[Copernicus]

This is a truly incredible story. I know Charleston has had problems with horse diapers in the past, but I have never heard any Government Bureaucrat try to distinguish between trash and refuse as a code violation.

Best regards to all,

[FreeKeys]

[gunsequalfreedom]

Trying to figure out what this is about. Did someone put the wrong material in the wrong can?

[SC Swamp Fox]

Charleston resident is accused of unlawful use of a trash can.
Here is a link to his phone call to Glenn Beck's radio show.

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[metmom]

I happened to hear this exchange on Glenn Beck when it was on.

Very..... interesting......

Imagine, using a trash can, presumably public, which means that it was paid for by taxpayers and would be public property, for throwing out trash.

[metmom]

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[The_Media_never_lie]

Recently in Charleston, a tourist was arrested and spent hours in jail for carrying an open beer ia brown bag and drinking from it in public. He was not drunk or disorderly, but drinking a beer.

This is going on while there are certain streets in Charleston that you can witness drug deals going down and the police doing nothing. Truly lawless sections of the city.

[RipSawyer]

“Recently in Charleston, a tourist was arrested and spent hours in jail for carrying an open beer ia brown bag and drinking from it in public. He was not drunk or disorderly, but drinking a beer.”
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This is laughing out loud absurd to those of us who know even a little bit of the history of Charleston. Forty five years ago when there was NO LEGAL LIQUOR BY THE DRINK in Charleston I was there and walked into a place that looked like a bar and asked for a beer. I was told that I couldn’t buy a beer because they didn’t have a license but they could sell me a mixed drink! I told the attractive young lady who offered the whiskey thanks but I was in the mood for a beer and didn’t really want whiskey. She then asked me if I wanted to buy anything else. Suffice it to say that apparently anything was available except beer. I went on my way to find a beer somewhere else, beer was all I could afford at the time anyway.

Charleston, South Carolina in the sixties was wide open, I can’t say exactly what the situation is now but it is probably something entirely different from the official story.

[bamahead]

Glenn Beck's full exchange with the target of the trash police's ire is HERE.



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[Xenalyte]

Wow, maybe work a little more invective and unsupported assertions into that story, and it could go mainstream.

[PalmettoMason]

Par for the course here in SC...

Back in the fall we had a benefit party for a friend who had been badly injured in an accident. (Folks here do that all the time.) In addition to an auction, a raffle, and food plates, we had beer and soft drinks for $1 a can. We weren't trying to make any money on the drinks, just offset the cost.

Just after dark a helicopter began to circle overhead, and then the party was surrounded by LEOs dressed in ninja outfits and armed with automatic weapons. They even brought out an armored vehicle. The helicopter stayed on station overhead for the hour it took to conduct the raid.

The crime? Selling beer without a license.

They wrote the guy working the bar a ticket, confiscated a few cases of beer, and left (after taking ID info and photographing people at the party.)

Glenn's caller is lucky they just wrote him a letter.

[SC Swamp Fox]

I suspect that the problem is that he threw trash from his business into a public trash can located on the street which was intended for use by non-residents (tourists).

I bet that businesses and residents are required to use their own dumpsters and trash cans.

[metmom]

Unreal.....

[metmom]

Unreal.....

A public trash can that can’t be used by the public.

I suppose that it depends on what your definition of *public* is...

[valkyry1]

Well that is just like if a person used the trash bin of business to dump a lot of trash in.

I mean if a person is walking by and they toss in the fast food trash thats one, its a matter of degree as I see it.

[valkyry1]

its a matter of degree how much the person is going to dump in as I see it.

[Copernicus]

Wow, maybe work a little more invective and unsupported assertions into that story, and it could go mainstream.

Well, possibly. Sadly, the horse diaper story has been the object of punditry and ridicule for decades:::

http://books.google.com/books?id=IcADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=charleston+sc+horse+diapers&source=bl&ots=uQExiM0Yh3&sig=37ddhL2hg5jy_V-kNQaLNqzFHaY&hl=en&ei=K0k6TNPuKMLflgfJgLHVBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=charleston%20sc%20horse%20diapers&f=false

http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/religionlaw/2002-April/004127.html

Best regards,

[Copernicus]

Wow! Is there a newslink for that?

Berserk cop stories are the best!

Best regards,

[SC Swamp Fox]

Unreal..

Not really, I'm sure most cities have rules against businesses or residents dumping their garbage into receptacles meant for pedestrian use. (You can't take a bag of your household garbage and put it into a can in a city park.)

I agree with valkyryl that it should be a matter of degree. It's not like he put a hefty bag of trash from his business into the side-walk trash can. It was one envelope.

[metmom]

Not really, I'm sure most cities have rules against businesses or residents dumping their garbage into receptacles meant for pedestrian use. (You can't take a bag of your household garbage and put it into a can in a city park.)

I don't disagree with that at all. Going after one envelope is a bit much. Likely it cost the taxpayer more money to make a stink about one envelope than we can imagine, certainly more than the amount it would have taken to simply dispose of it.