Posted on 12/10/2004 11:58:00 AM PST by Jimmyclyde
Man Fined for Allegedly Using Foul Bills
BURLINGTON, Iowa - A psychiatrist who police say smeared excrement on dollars bills used to pay a parking ticket has been fined $250.
Ronald Preston McPike, 52, of Bonaparte, was charged with harassment of a public official after officials received an envelop in July labeled "Foreign brown substance on bills." The envelope contained several dollar bills and a parking ticket made up to McPike, police said.
Tests indicated the brown substance was fecal matter that had been smeared on the bills.
McPike told police the money fell into a toilet and was retrieved to pay the $5 parking ticket, police said.
Assistant Des Moines County Attorney Heidi Van Winkle had sought the maximum $500 fine and 30 days in jail for McPike.
"Something this disgusting requires more from the court than a minimum fine. This was a snub at law enforcement officers who are just doing their job," Van Winkle said.
McPike's lawyer, Bryan Schulte, said his client had a "serious error in judgment."
"He was vexed at getting parking tickets left and right and didn't consider what he did a criminal act," Schulte said.
Associate Judge Gary Snyder said McPike demonstrated "immature behavior unbecoming a professional person."
"It's hard to put this case into perspective because people seem to get more riled up about parking tickets than anything else," Snyder said. "This is a public heath issue which shouldn't have happened."
McPike declined to comment.
That's just....not right.
Crazy shrinks.
Anthropomoron....
Amazing when a supposed expert on human beings acts like a gorilla.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Shouldn't federal charges apply here, as well?
“Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.”
Physician heal thyself.
This guy needs to see a good shrink, not the crazy one he sees when he shaves.
OK then, it was just an accident. In other news Iran just wants the nuclear material for power generation...
Despite what our homosexual friends may believe, fecal matter is not an inocuous substance.
"Shouldn't federal charges apply here, as well?"
I think "fecal" charges, certainly. Anyway, it was a crappy thing to doo.
Let it not be said that they guy didn't give a shit....
What's he supposed to think? If only he had gotten a National Endowment for the Arts grant first, the left wing nuts in Congress might have been calling it protected free speech.
Bottom line, I think you're right. It was time for the judge to sh!t or get off the pot.
Hey, c'mon, the money just happened to slip into the toilet. Doesn't that happen to everybody once in a while? Be honest. ;)
Shoulda stuffed the bills into a jar of urine, along with a crucifix. Not only constitutionally protected, but potentially federally funded.
Now HERE'S a guy that needs to learn about money laundering.
Exactly...wait a minute, doesn't it say "In God We Trust" on the bills? Quick call the Anti-Christian Lawyers Union, they could make it an "establishment clause" issue.
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