Posted on 02/28/2013 7:44:18 PM PST by k4gypsyrose
A license plate gives police a whole lot of information about you, and law enforcement is supposed to protect those details. However, one local sheriff admits he gave a driver's name and address away, and the reason he did it is downright bizarre.
(Excerpt) Read more at 1.whdh.com ...
Only on interstates-not on secondary routes. Of course, there's always roadside bushes. A certain percentage of people who stop at McDonalds to use the rest room do, in fact, buy something, even if it's only a cup of coffee (a high profit margin item). If they don't stop at all, you can be certain that they buy nothing.
In better days, I was out looking at land up in the mountains of NC and took my folks along, it was a nice day and a nice drive. Some of the parcels were out in the country, really out there, nothing but farms and trees for miles around. My mother had an emergency, and had no choice but to ask us to look the other way while she answered the call of nature behind one of those trees.
We really weren’t as far out in the middle of nowhere as we thought, though. Turns out she more or less mooned passing traffic on the Blue Ridge Parkway, lol.
‘Course the arthritic knees and elbows plus the extra sixty pounds make crawling under the door a little more problematic for me than it was fifty-five years ago...
‘Course the arthritic knees and elbows plus the extra sixty pounds make crawling under the door a little more problematic for me than it was fifty-five years ago...
My grandma was a stickler that “If you stopped in a store for anything, you had to buy something.” When she passed she had a stack of 10cent post cards. I still have them and the same habit, too.
““I just feel like I’ve been violated,” Patricia Barnes said.”
the law of “when you gotta go, you gotta go” somewhat applies. Yeah, a bit unusual to be called out on this by having your license plate looked up, but what surprises me more is that this woman went to the press! THat’s the weirdest part of this story.
If businesses have parking and bathrooms solely for the purposes of this woman to pee wherever she wants then it has to do the same for everyone else.
With all that parking and peeing and the extra demands of our present government, it’ll be no wonder business are failing left and right.
This sheriff is an idiot. Stopping at a restaurant to use the bathroom is now a "crime"? Really. I think most restaurants will gladly give you a glass of water gratis if you ask. And I've never heard of a restaurant denying someone using the restroom. It's called good will. It's called treating your customers and potential customers with respect.
I'd imagine this restaurant is going to lose more than the $5 in business over this bone-head move they made in conjunction with their ignorant local sheriff.
Sometimes the next rest stop is 20 minutes further away than one can hold it...How many folks decide that they're just going to "get something for free" and then do it by "oh my God" using a restroom without making a purchase?
Balderdash. If I am a regular customer of a business, I have absolutely no qualms about using their restrooms even if I happen not to buy something ON THAT VISIT.
I used to be a deputy sheriff in that county back in the 1990s. I left after 11 months because of shady activities. About a year after I left, the Chief Deputy and a Sergeant were indicted for drug trafficking.
This doesn't surprise me one bit. It is a very small, rural county - the type of place where "Boss Hogg" politics prevail.
And the fact that this power hungry public servant broke the law doesn’t measure on your outrage meter??
I've stopped at McDonalds many times and they made a profit off me each and every time...But I rarely used their bathrooms...They owe me a lot of trips to the bathroom...
I stopped in Barstow California about 45 years ago and they had a pay toilet.
I have never stopped in Barstow since.
Businesses need to remember why they are in business or accept that someone will never stop there again.
It’s the kind of petty abuse that has always been with us and always will be. I’m glad someone is paying attention.
It’s just the WHDH link that caught my eye. That was the unusual thing. “Why does the post link to a(n obscure) Boston TV station?”, I wondered. WHDH was an historical radio and later TV station, their microphone logo is seen on period newsreels filmed in Boston from the 1930’s through the 1980’s. Hardly a JFK public appearance, Dukasis announcing his run for the presidency, a submarine disaster in Portsmouth in the 1930’s, all these record its once proud emblem. I just haven’t watched that station in about 20 years, and was somewhat surprised to see that they are still even in business, though a broadcast license is the nearest thing to a license to print money ever granted by the U.S. government.
Agreed. I buy something fast like a juice box for one of my kids. It is enough to be a customer, but I don’t have to eat it right then.
BS...I buy stuff at McD’s and never use their facilities...once in a while I stop to pee and do not buy anything. Until they put up a sign saying I can’t, I will do that when I need to go. If McD’s didn’t want this to happen, they could make a person wanting to pee in their pot have to get a key from a clerk at the counter.
And btw, it has nothing to do with ‘something for nothing’...get a life.
When I lived in Ireland back in the late ‘70’s it was sometimes necessary to use the sheep loo...it was often hard to find any public facility.
OTOH, some folks ask for a free pack of matches on the way out!
So basically you and your wife look down at people who use the bathroom. You two sound like such lovely people.
For me, too. Being young and agile certainly did have its advantages.
Bingo! There are not “roadside centers” everywhere. Usually, I try to buy something.
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