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NYC top cop apologizes to couple in 80s for visits
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Posted on 03/19/2010 3:05:55 PM PDT by JoeProBono

NEW YORK (AP) -- Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years.

It seems a glitch in computer records had led them over and over to Walter and Rose Martin's modest home in the Marine Park neighborhood, about 7 miles southeast of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The most recent intrusion came Tuesday, with officers pounding on both the front and back doors, yelling "Police, open up!"

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: cheesecake; donutwatch; jpb; newyork; police

The house where 82-year-old Rose and 83-year-old Walter Martins live in the Brooklyn borough of New York


1 posted on 03/19/2010 3:05:55 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

My gosh that’s the Bunker house.


2 posted on 03/19/2010 3:07:49 PM PDT by DManA
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To: JoeProBono

So Joe, would you advise these folks to settle for a cheesecake?


3 posted on 03/19/2010 3:10:07 PM PDT by DManA
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To: JoeProBono

Hmmmm.

4 posted on 03/19/2010 3:10:15 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: JoeProBono

So Joe, would you advise these folks to settle for a cheesecake?


5 posted on 03/19/2010 3:10:21 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

“Git me a Behr!@!!!


6 posted on 03/19/2010 3:11:00 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: DManA
Probably ~ much like it anyway ~ now, wait until IRS begins enforcing the Obamakkkare insurance program.

These folks had well-trained experienced police officers knocking on their doors. IRS is not going to send out well trained people with years of experience.

By the second day they will be armed of course.

7 posted on 03/19/2010 3:11:28 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: MrEdd

ROTFLAMAO


8 posted on 03/19/2010 3:11:34 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: JoeProBono

EIGHT YEARS??????????????


9 posted on 03/19/2010 3:19:00 PM PDT by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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To: DManA
>So Joe, would you advise these folks to settle for a cheesecake?

Yup. Orly Taitz


10 posted on 03/19/2010 3:20:32 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

It fits with “NYPD repeatedly arrests wrong man” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2445399/posts


11 posted on 03/19/2010 3:21:06 PM PDT by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
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To: JoeProBono

Uh, Joe, did you catch the part where the guy is 80 years old?


12 posted on 03/19/2010 3:38:07 PM PDT by DManA
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To make sure it will never happen again, Browne said the address has been flagged with alerts, so if there's any record indicating officers should question the Martins, "they're barred from doing it."

"It seems like too simple a correction for something that has been going on for eight years," she told the New York Daily News, which first reported the story.

I must be a computer genius, because my first thought before I even clicked onto this thread, was to flag the address.

13 posted on 03/19/2010 3:39:24 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberal politicians in the GOP are easy for the left to turn, why is that?)
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To: DManA

Did you catch the part where Orly’s a lawyer;-{)


14 posted on 03/19/2010 3:40:11 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Oh yea, make me out to be the sexist. How ‘bout some BEEF CAKE for Rose?


15 posted on 03/19/2010 4:06:01 PM PDT by DManA
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16 posted on 03/19/2010 4:13:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

That looks pretty good actually.


17 posted on 03/19/2010 4:15:52 PM PDT by DManA
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To: ansel12

The problem in a massive bureaucracy is that there’s a different computer databasee for every single city department, separate from each other and from state computers. Maybe they changed it in the NYC police computer, but the NYC sales tax people almost certainly have their own computer, which is different than the state tax people, the state DMV has its own computer separate from the others, etc.


18 posted on 03/19/2010 5:26:18 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: JoeProBono
"Round up the usual suspects!"
19 posted on 03/20/2010 7:35:17 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

20 posted on 03/20/2010 9:04:59 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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