Posted on 04/30/2024 1:58:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan
"You don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and you don't FA with Florida Man's car." — Jim Croce, possibly.
New York Man was visiting his Summerland Key vacation home earlier this month and decided to hit the Winn-Dixie one night "to pick up some coffee and Key lime pie," as he told his arresting officer two days later. Key lime pie is not a controlled substance in Florida — thank goodness — but keying somebody's car for having a "Let's Go Brandon" sticker is.
What New York Man, later identified as Richard Philip Brothers, 63, of Syracuse, didn't know was that he'd been caught on video doing his dirty deed in the Winn-Dixie parking lot. The sheriff's deputy showed up well-prepared, with his Miranda warning card and the surveillance video ready to go.
"Do you remember what you did when you walked out of Winn-Dixie," the cop asked after reading Brothers his rights, "to the green Toyota Tundra?"
"I walked by a truck, yeah."
"What did you do to it?"
"I scratched it… I guess [the Brandon sticker] infuriated me… Yeah, that’s the only reason I did it."
Florida Man is pressing charges of criminal mischief, thank you very much, which is a third-degree felony and punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine....
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Cuffed and locked up. Whoah, Nellie. For keying a car. I am amazed.
You make good points but I stick with their being irrational.
Uh, 63 isn’t that old. Really, even if my kids say it is. 😜
But this arsehole was acting like a child and deserves a big fine and some time in the Graybar Hotel.
They had him on security video.
Same thing with political signs in yards. Our side isnt themone who steals them. The left does. The self proclaimed guardians of free speech, oh wait they are no longer for free speech anymore...free speech they dont like is dangerous or misinformation
You are probably right. I thought he should have fessed up from the start - I'd like to believe we should be able to honestly answer questions, but I've heard too many times of people getting hosed by talking to the police without a lawyer.
The wife was only angry because he got caught.
Imagine being successful enough to own a second home (near the Florida Keys) but vindictive and stupid enough to do thousands of dollars worth of damage over a bumper sticker.
Anything you say can and will be used AGAINST you ... but never FOR you.
I hope she didn’t bond him out and let him stew in there a couple days.
Read later.
I don’t have to imagine it. I lived in NY for 7 years (Ithaca 5 yr NYC 2 yr) I saw it on a daily basis. A hatred and fear of firearms, a love of government, an undeserved innate sense of superiority to those who lived in other states, a completely self absorbed attitude where nothing west of the Hudson exists (NYC only), an attitude toward Republicans that one normally finds reserved for cannibals, and an absolute unshakable belief that your own opinions are not only correct but superior to everyone else’s. And that just touching the surface of New York values.
Funny story about a car in a Kohls parking lot that was loaded with liberal stickers Obama/Biden, friends don’t let friends vote Republican etc. probably holding the car together. I was waiting in the car while my family was shopping. The owner (or girlfriend of the owner) came over to me and asked if I would jump start their car dead battery - they had the cables. I told them I would like to, but i was in a Republican car and theirs wouldn’t like the electricity from it. The expression on her face was priceless.
My first job was in South Louisiana cutting cane in high school. My second job was as a deckhand on a tugboat. When I turned 18 I could work on the oil well drilling rigs, and did so. The guys that hired us wanted us to be everything we could be and gave us jobs so we had money to go to college. They were kind men but hard men. They wanted us to succeed. If we did not do our work properly they would have fired us.
I learned as much from them as I did from my University Professors. Without those hard men I would not have been a geologist, instructor pilot and pharmacist.
Those asshole students today rioting on campus have never been hungry nor in need.
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Dear NY Liber- er Marxists - if you want to vacation, vacation in North Korea. It would be better for you. Don’t visit Florida. You’ll hate the real Americans who loves Trump here.
I think you're right.
If there's a place in this country where one could reach the age of 63 without having grown up, it's a college campus.
A nickname UConn fans at The-Boneyard gave them.
>> The deputy who arrested this jerk put on a classic display of proper, calm, non-confrontational, de-escalatory policing. In the process, he got the jerk to admit his crime on camera, and then carried out a felony arrest without putting anyone’s life in danger. That video could be used for training.
I knew of this video but hadn’t watched it until just now. Agree 100% with your assessment. That is one competent officer! I’d like to think he’s far from the only one.
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