Posted on 05/31/2014 2:52:48 AM PDT by kingattax
Anything you post on Facebook can (and sometimes will) come back to haunt you. Chicago-area resident Christine Adamski discovered that the hard way when she received a police citation in the mail because of a comment she wrote on the social networking site.
The letter from the Will County Forest Preserve District stated that Adamski had brought her dog to the Whalon Lake Dog Park in Naperville, Ill., without a permit and included an application for the permit, a ticket for $50, and a printout of Adamski’s Facebook post "admitting her guilt."
The post read, “I was feeling bad that I haven’t bought a pass and been bringing Ginger there but I’m pretty glad I haven’t. So not going to worry about it until later. I hope all the doggies get better soon.” At the time, there were rumors that a bad case of kennel cough had afflicted the dogs in the park.
“People were calling and complaining about the kennel cough, but we couldn’t confirm it so an employee visited the Facebook page of the dog park for more information and that’s how we discovered Christine’s post,” Lt. Tracey Phillips of the Will County Forest Preserve District Police tells Yahoo Shine.
“We require people to get a permit to make sure all dogs are healthy and up-to-date on their shots.”
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She should challenge them for proof it happened! Yes, baldly.
I hope it embarrassed the ticketeers.
I remember about 10 years ago there was some Democrat government official hauled before a panel or court or something, and he was confronted with a copy of his ‘daily journal’ which had entries in it that conflicted with his testimony. His defense was “I lied to my journal.” No sh!t.
He apparently got away with it, IIRC because the media let it drop.
If I were this woman, I’d go before the court and plead not guilty and tell the judge I “lied to my FaceBook page” because I was trying to make friends. I’d then ask the judge to have animal control or whoever provide separate evidence (other than the lies I told to myself). If none, then I’d request the judge drop the case.
A permit to walk you dog in a park? Sounds more like Nazi Germany than America. Were I her, I would fight this unconstitutional ticket. BTW, Gaffer, nice to visit with you here and on AMG.
What’s a face book?
It’s something that half of FReepers utilize and enjoy and that the other half calls the devil’s tool. And that one FReeper has never heard of. :)
Hartley, I was not trying to be argumentative, I did not read it that closely. I’m posting to thank reagansshinyhair (most amusing name btw) for his details and just in case you didn’t see his post.
I don’t think it’s just a regular park - it’s a “dog park” where you can let your dog run off leash and there are usually some equipment type thingies around for the dogs to play on. The permit pays for upkeep on the dog park, and makes it so that the dogs that are off-leash (and sniffing each other) have had their shots so they don’t make each other sick. A permit sounds reasonable for something like this. I’d liken it to paying admission to a city-run pool. $50 sounds pretty high to me, but I don’t know much about running a dog park. I’m not the type of person to take my dog to a dog park, either.
I think the headline was sensationalist and designed to inflame, and it doesn’t reflect what truly happened in this case. I’m tired of headlines like that.
And that’s what makes perfect sense in the context of the info about the sick dogs.
The ticket trolls must spend their days sniffing for cash.
A variety of other taxes have already paid for the park (property taxes, and depending on the city, sales taxes). Plus the taxes (fees) associated with obtaining a dog license. One should not have to pay another fee to simply use an existing city owned park, in which one can walk through, without a dog, with no additional fees required.
And a ticket by mail, based on a FB post? Unconstitutional, in my partially educated view.
I prefer to have the tax paid by the people who actually use the dog area of the park, rather than raise taxes on everyone regardless of whether or not they use the dog area.
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