jablake

In the book that I cited above the Ex-Cop tells about a child who was arrested for throwing pecans at a school bus. The charges? Something like felony launching of deadly missles etc. The law is a big business fraud. :) I remember children throwing pine cones----those are a lot more dangerous than pecans, btw. It was child's play and it wasn't limited to the children. I remember the bus driver getting out and launching a few pine cones-----he wasn't actually trying to hit the children just scare 'em a little. In this sick society those children may be arrested on felony charges because it is a money game; a fraud.

BTW, my laudry man would call the cops over a $1 dispute. The solution is to pay the $1 or the $10 or whatever small amount he demands and then go to a different laundry-----fortunately choosing a different laundry is a real solution in my area. No need to put up with poor service. The laundry man who'd call the cops (not on me, btw or my friends either) wasn't a bad person. And, he believed he was in the right. He may have been in the right----I don't want a $1 stolen from me even if I'm not going to call the police. Bottom line that laundry would call the police and I just didn't like that mentality so I took my business to a laundry across the street. Also, that laundry went under! :) New management and I now have been using that laundry for years. A machine doesn't heat the owner is happy to replace my money and makes me feel like a valued customer. Downside? His prices are higher. It would be better dollar wise not to have my money replaced and get the lower prices of the laundry man always calling the police.

"restaurant automatically adding 22% tip to a tab (and probably more to the story as to what prompted police to be called)" The story refers to an 18% gratuity so I'm not sure where you are getting a 22% from. Also, the more to the story mentality is just the normal cop-out people often use for a number of reasons. Probably they'd like to think it could never happen to them because they support the police. Or, they don't want to think valuable resources are being wasted on such nonsense. Or, etc. I bet the tenant of Unit 16 believed the police would never arrest him and especially that he wouldn't do jail time (the courts would protect him idiocy) for living in a residential unit that was like 413 SF instead of the mandatory 425 SF. The cattle won't learn as general rule.

Hi gatorfan, You're missing the point. The "crime" may be for not paying the tip, but the police not wanting to look silly have a habit of upgrading the charges. :) So, don't pay that stripper tip and don't be crying when the police upgrade the charges-----hint, hint, hint-----you don't need have drugs or weapons it is just too easy to see you "drop" the drugs----again you don't need to "drop" drugs or have drugs. It is a game. Normal people pay off and the fools that don't may end up with an arrest record and perhaps jail time.

The Wall Street Journal had a piece a some years back where they were completely outraged by a judge making the statement that she was sick of police officers coming into her court and telling lies under oath. My opinion was that The Wall Street Journal was exhibiting clear symptoms of pseudo-conservatism e.g. law and order even when corruption is demonstrably pellucid. The gravamen was that day in and day out police officers would come into court and swear under oath that the alleged drug dealer dropped the drugs. So, thousands and thousands of drug dealers are just going around dropping drugs so police can make arrests? It was a running joke amongst the police and some would argue the ends justified the means. Who cares is police officers lie under oath as long as the drug dealers are arrested? It goes further than the ends justify the means, however. The Wall Street Journal piece was going off the deep end in rage because the judge was telling truth about an issue that might make some people dislike the police---not everyone approves of fabricating evidence etc.