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Police: Man was bringing cans to Mich. to collect deposits
NewsChannel 3 ^
| February 10, 2011 1:00 PM
| unattributed
Posted on 02/11/2011 6:53:03 AM PST by tje
BRANCH COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A Brighton man is in trouble with the law for bringing aluminum cans from Indiana to Michigan to collect the deposits.
On Monday night state police troopers pulled over 64-year-old John Woodfill for driving erratically. He was driving a van with a trailer that didn't have a tailgate.
In the back were more than 60,000 aluminum cans
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: michigan; napl
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The crime is a felony.
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posted on
02/11/2011 6:53:05 AM PST
by
tje
To: tje
Was it a postal truck? NEWMAN!
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posted on
02/11/2011 6:55:44 AM PST
by
Dr. Ursus
To: tje
I feel sooo much safer now...............
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posted on
02/11/2011 6:55:52 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
To: Dr. Ursus
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posted on
02/11/2011 6:56:44 AM PST
by
milford421
(U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
To: tje
He should have hired an illegal to drive for him. They wouldn’t have dared stop him then.
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posted on
02/11/2011 6:57:03 AM PST
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: tje
Um... I'm missing something here. What was his exact crime? Is it illegal to be missing a tailgate? Were the cans falling out of the truck on to the highway?
WTF over...
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posted on
02/11/2011 6:57:26 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(III%. The last line in the sand)
To: tje
The crime is a felony.
What crime? Driving erattically? Driving without a tailgate? Transporting aluminum cans across state lines? If I buy a bottle of Coke in Indiana and drive to the Michigan beach and get a refund after I've finished it, am I guilty of a felony? Does the law in question specifically cite the number of aluminum cans you can transport without being guilty of a felony? I guess the moral of the story is that you shouldn't drink 60,000 beers before trying to transport cans across state lines.
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posted on
02/11/2011 6:58:25 AM PST
by
Yet_Again
To: tje
Police say that Woodfill admitted that he bought the cans from recyclers in Indiana and then took them to Brighton and cashed them in for the deposits. Repeat after me: Do not talk to the cops!
Without the admission of guilt, the donut chompers would have had just about nothing to convict him with. Driving around with a truck full of empty cans is legal. And I doubt that there is such a law as "intent to defraud the can deposit program".
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posted on
02/11/2011 6:59:19 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
To: Dead Corpse
Isn’t it self-evident that he crossed state lines with aluminum cans. That’s enough. Throw away the key (sarc off).
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posted on
02/11/2011 6:59:51 AM PST
by
refreshed
To: Red Badger
Maybe they thought he was out to pop someone.
To: tje
A felony. Really.
Our legal system has started to prey on the good guys.
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:02:05 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: tje
Its called “arbitrage.” Wall St. Bankers do it all the time.
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:02:22 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: Yet_Again
The crime is that I pay 10 cents deposit and this guy is bringing 60,000 cans to get that money. Yes, it is illegal for you to bring in bottles from another state.
That being said, I used to drive from Cleveland to see my husband on the weekends and bring cans to get the deposits from MI. I know lots of people who have done it.
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:03:38 AM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Happiness is a choice.)
To: tje
How much money would Woodfill have collected in Michigan?
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:03:58 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
To: Dr. Ursus
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:05:02 AM PST
by
PDMiller
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:05:02 AM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Happiness is a choice.)
To: KarlInOhio
Repeat after me: Do not talk to the cops! Exactly. Let that be repeated - do not EVER, under ANY circumstances, talk to a cop. It can do nothing but get a person in trouble, even if they are completely, 100% innocent of wrongdoing.
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:05:16 AM PST
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will believe in abject nonsense.)
To: Dr. Ursus
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:05:37 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: tje
Yep....the guv’mint is against entrepreneurship.....no doubt.
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:05:51 AM PST
by
Thumper1960
(A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
To: Dead Corpse
Is it illegal to be missing a tailgate? Not a crime but usually it is an infraction punishable by a fine
It is called an “unsecured load”
If you spill your load because it is unsecured it is more serious
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posted on
02/11/2011 7:06:42 AM PST
by
Pontiac
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