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Cops bust high school beer kegger - root beer, that is
BayNews 9 ^ | Saturday, March 29, 2008 | ROBERT IMRIE

Posted on 03/29/2008 4:31:48 PM PDT by rarestia

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To: wku man
"What's lame about it? Makes sense to me."

What's lame about it? Please refer to posts # 4 and 11, and especially post #12.

21 posted on 03/29/2008 5:29:21 PM PDT by Hoof Hearted
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To: Viking2002

Even the cops can’t do anything about being young and insightful. Made em’ look like bafoons, especially now.


22 posted on 03/29/2008 5:30:01 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: wku man

Take your crap over to DU, you’re not welcome here.


23 posted on 03/29/2008 5:31:26 PM PDT by TheRealDBear
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To: wku man

Of course they had probable cause, they left the house under influence of soda-pop. Phhhhhttt!


24 posted on 03/29/2008 5:31:57 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: wku man

If the kids didnt smell of alchol, slur their speech, stagger around...denied they had been drinking, where was the probable cause????

Just because some kids didnt park to suit you, doesnt mean you have a bunch of drunks on your hands.

Do you believe you are innocent until proven guilty?

I am sick and tired of the police trying to micro-manage the lives of the citizens they are hired to serve!


25 posted on 03/29/2008 5:34:38 PM PDT by T Wayne (If you know how many guns you have, you don't have enough!!!)
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To: T Wayne

I guarantee any kid registers anything, everything you listed would be there. “PO” “LICE” world has changed.


26 posted on 03/29/2008 5:36:50 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: wku man
"When police respond to an obvious party, they announce their presence, and kids begin pouring out of the house running away, they have probable cause to believe something criminal is in progress."

The story states only, and I quote: "Juveniles began coming out of the house after the officer used his squad car's loudspeaker to warn that cars would soon be towed, Officer Jason Rasmussen wrote in his report."

I missed the part of the story that stated that the kids were pouring out of the house and started to run away, most likely because you invented that part of the story yourself.

It simply did not take place the way you are presenting it. You are basing your argument on your own misconception of what occurred according to the story.

27 posted on 03/29/2008 5:38:15 PM PDT by Hoof Hearted
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To: TheRealDBear

Worse, the cops in Durham, NC, posed as a delivery service and delivered a package full of marijuana to a frat house. There was no one at the house by the name on the package, which had been refused once before. This time someone inside the house signed for it and put it to one side thinking the supposed recipient might have used the house for an address (as students sometimes do).

Five minutes later the SWAT squad crashed through the door, put everyone in handcuffs, strip-searched them, and did thousands of dollars of damage ‘searching’ the house, hoping to find some other kind of drug-related items which would justify their raid. They found nothing, and the package had not been opened.

Nevertheless, they still charged the signer with drug-trafficing. In the meantime, several pounds of the marijuana in the package went missing while in police custody. (?) (This is the same police force that recently investigated three students for another crime that never happened.) Eventually—after expensive legal fees—the charges were dismissed.

But the whole operation smacked of a set-up—for a crime which never happened.

This sort of thing could happen to anyone (the police “manufacture” probable cause to search your house). And if you can’t prove your innocence, you can be in for a long prosecution (if you can afford a defense lasting a year or more).


28 posted on 03/29/2008 5:44:50 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: wku man

Sorry, don’t buy it.
My son was walking home one night after going to a local fast food restaurant. He put a bag into his sweatshirt. It was cold outside, he was keeping food warm. The local cop pulled over and told him to take out whatever he had put into the shirt. He assumed it was drugs. My son knows how they work here. He took the bag out. The cop was so mad that he found mashed potatoes! He had my son take off his shoes so he could make sure he did not have anything hidden there. This happens all the time.
My son knows that anything like that happens again, he is not to go along with the nonsense. They are out of control around here. But, it is time to stop putting up with it.

If I want to throw a party and it gets noisy, then deal with that. Don’t be assuming kids are drunk.


29 posted on 03/29/2008 5:45:30 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (Nuke the ACLU and their snivel rights)
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To: rarestia

A kid tries to do the right thing and the idiocy that IS much of today’s law enforcement crashes in anyway. Amazing.

I hope the police involved feel this embarrassment and humiliation for a long, long time!


30 posted on 03/29/2008 5:45:46 PM PDT by DangerDanger ("Libertarianism is the Heart and Soul of Conservatism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: wku man

When police respond to an obvious party, they announce their presence, and kids begin pouring out of the house running away, they have probable cause to believe something criminal is in progress.
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Negative! they have cause to believe a party is in progress.. There is no note of anyone running away or behaving as if they were drunk... If anyone had left for their cars it would be to avoid having it towed which is what the police announced as their intention over their bullhorns,, you can’t cause a situation to occur and then use that situation to advance your illegal search...

Quit licking their boots.. They got them good... if their H.S. friends hadn’t been railroaded for being seen drinking out of a plastic cup (THE HORROR!) on the ASSUMPTION the cups held alcohol they wouldn’t have punk’d the cops... I’m just surprised no dogs were shot and no kids were tased.


31 posted on 03/29/2008 6:04:17 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: rarestia
"It was a tremendous waste of time and manpower, but we still had a job to do, and our officers did it," Joling said. "If one kid had come there, even hadn't drank there, but had come there and had been drinking and had left and crashed and burned, then what would the sentiment be? Why didn't the police check everybody out?"

Ah, yes, justification for raiding an American citizen's home and running illegal breath checks and searches without probable cause, or at least without constitutional probable cause but the new "neighbor complaint" probable cause, and of course teenagers are second class citizens anyway so what does it hurt to trample all over their rights? /SAR

32 posted on 03/29/2008 6:09:25 PM PDT by calex59
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To: rarestia
Did the police arrest the kids for "simulating a drunken keg party," or some such nonsensical trumped up charge?

-PJ

33 posted on 03/29/2008 6:11:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: wku man
Maybe next time he has a party, he'll tell his little friends to park a little better and be a little quieter.

So...there were citations for parking and noise?

34 posted on 03/29/2008 6:11:20 PM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (I wrote the original “That’s The Ticket” Skit for SNL.)
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To: rarestia

To think, just how much revenue was lost!! Darn the luck.


35 posted on 03/29/2008 6:12:51 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Red_Devil 232; Awestruck
I suppose you read the second to last paragraph? It explains why they continued testing.

No, red, it doesn't "explain" anything, it is simply an attempt to justify this whole illegal move. The cops broke the law and trampled on civil liberties here, they are the cause of the expense and the illegal searches.

Keep hanging in there with this type of LEO and soon you will be living in a real live police state, we are about 3/10ths of the way there now.

36 posted on 03/29/2008 6:13:52 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59

LOL!


37 posted on 03/29/2008 6:28:32 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: unixfox

That is the kicker. The cops weren’t there to protect anyone. They were there to fill the coffers. Here a minor citation is about $100. Can you imagine what these cops pictured?
Wonder how many real criminals skated on by while the cops harrassed this group?


38 posted on 03/29/2008 6:42:35 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (Nuke the ACLU and their snivel rights)
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To: ozaukeemom

Freedom of Peaceable Assembly?


39 posted on 03/29/2008 7:31:49 PM PDT by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: Hoof Hearted
Yeah, I'm pretty sure any judge in the land would agree the cops had probable cause when they saw kids running away from an obvious party.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

40 posted on 03/29/2008 7:46:42 PM PDT by wku man (BLOAT while you can...)
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