Theft? Perhaps not.Obstruction? Maybe...although I’m not a lawyer.
“Theft? Perhaps not.Obstruction? Maybe...although I’m not a lawyer.”
The man found something in his car he did not see out there or giver permission to put there. By natural law it is his property to do with what he wishes. The police have acted like pompous, ignorant fools in this instance.
I can’t see even that.
Suppose someone stuck something to your car. say some dark box shaped thing on the undercarriage. You have no idea what it is, perhaps thinking maybe it was something in the road that got kicked up by a tire and somehow stuck there.
You could have easily peeled it off and thrown it away.
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How is he suppose to know who it belongs to?
This is obviously a correct decision.
Think about it this way. Obama’s DOJ targets you because of your posts on Free Republic. They stick a tracker on your car. You find it and throw it in the trash.
This is just a process crime, like lying to the FBI. Even if you aren’t guilty of anything, just being interviewed probably gives them something they can argue wasn’t true. For example, you say, “I don’t remember.” Do you really want to go in front of a jury to prove you really didn’t remember when you said it? That’s exactly what they got the Valerie Plame guy for in the Bush administration, saying I don’t recall.
Even if you aren’t guilty, pulling the tracker off your car makes you a criminal and subject to search of your home.