Posted on 12/21/2013 8:18:15 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A video has gone viral after a Long Island man recorded a police officer who threatened to ticket him if he washed his car in the driveway. As WCBS 880′s Sophia Hall reported Friday, the incident happened on Hawthorne Road in Garden City. The 24-year-old said he was washing his 1997 Volkswagen in his driveway when a police officer told him he wasn’t allowed to do that.
The officer said although the car wasn’t going to be washed in the street, which is illegal, washing it in the driveway would still be in the public’s view, Hall reported. No one received a ticket during the ordeal and The Garden City Police Department had no comment about the incident.
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Wow, a real one man crime wave!
>>Wow, a real one man crime wave!
Yep. Find one more white guy trying to wash a car in Garden City NJ and the media can declare that the “Knockout Game” is not racist because white people are doing the “Car Wash Game” and it all balances out.
Wait, what?
Can’t wash your car in public view? People become offended if you do? Sounds like the goofiness of people on a Fox story who said people shouldn’t be allowed to decorate their lawns and houses at Christmastime because the decorations would offend atheists and people of other religions.
"Oh, Officer, I was walking along the sidewalk, when suddenly and completely unexpectedly I witnessed the most horrible sight I've ever seen in my life! A MAN WASHING HIS CAR!"
"The problem is your neighbor doesn't like you."
WTF?
I truly feel like I am living in a nightmare. What has happened to America???
It’s been taken over by smug socialists.
This is exactly the type of arrogant, oppressive behavior the first few amendments were designed to prohibit.
America no longer exists in the Northeast and is fading fast elsewhere.
The Police man was just doing his job. When the man asked what the problem was he told the truth. “You have a neighbor that does not like you”
That is the problem, having an a-hole for a neighbor.
Like the Officer said “I don’t make this sh*t up, it’s the law.
This man needs to find out which neighbor doesn’t like him if he doesn’t already know, and tell the neighbor how much he appreciates that neighbors community interest, in a nice way, like using round-up on the neighbors bush’s to keep the grass from choking them out. LOL Just kiddin-—I think.
It seems that no one is willing to stand up for what is right. The cop was wrong. He tried to be a lawyer. He read the ordinance. It stated 'public place'. Not public view.
I would have proceeded to wash the car after the cop left so he did not see it and thus could not testify. The neighbor would have called again. When the cop showed up I would have asked to be arrested. That way the nosy a-hole (and yet to be identified) neighbor would have to testify.
It would be a fun project to get the local media involved and make the neighbor and the cops look like fools.
I can sympathize!!
Now Lucy washing her car in front of the hands, why that's an entirely different kettle of fish...
Should have stopped the officer at the sidewalk and asked for search warrant before he got any closer.
This is why law enforcement is too busy to go after illegal aliens. Americans all over the country are washing their cars in their driveways.
The neighbor called the cops on these guys and the police had to respond.
The fact that it is against the law to wash your car in your driveway says how far America has declined. Is there anything worth saving?
When the cop read it he said:"Public place", then said in response the young man correcting him: "it is still in public view".
But that is not what the law says. Sorry officer, you lose.
Being a cop is an easy job now. All they have to do is just go around ticketing all those criminals washing their cars, and enforcing any other liberal PC bull.
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