Comments on: Another Isolated Incident

By: Christ on a Cracker

Christ on a Cracker — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:29:06 +0000

@Steamed McQueen
Justin Roy Johnson, 26, 903 W. 24th Street, Connersville, was arrested on charges of visiting a common nuisance.

WTF is that?

By: pam

pam — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:39:29 +0000

and all to supply something the people want.

By: Sinchy

Sinchy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:02:59 +0000

@steamed mcqueen

It’s not the fact that they house was narced on that gets me it’s the first sentence in the article- is this sarcasm? It’s got to be.

“Another tip from a watchful citizen early Tuesday morning brought the Greensburg Police Department closer to exterminating the drug problem in the city”

By: Mark R

Mark R — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:30:20 +0000

I smell a built to spill reference.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:15:56 +0000

@29 No, then they’d just burn down the house.

By: perlhaqr

perlhaqr — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:31:29 +0000

Marc: LED numberplate? Embedded in polycarbonate so they can’t smash it after they kick in the wrong door?

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By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:11:45 +0000

#3 “I always assume they shot the dog(s), or the people didn’t have any dogs, unless the article says ‘the police did not shoot or kill any dogs’ or something like that.”

And even then, who knows? Unless you talk to one or more of the people involved.

By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:08:03 +0000

“Give him the chair! Heh, heh! Yeah!”–Beavis

The scary part is, of course, that in that part of the US they may do just that. And the murderer in the next cell is up for parole this year, after serving less than 5 years.

Or something like that.

By: Samsam

Samsam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:53:42 +0000

Crap, wrong thread.

By: Samsam

Samsam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:52:28 +0000

So, who exactly gets the pension? Just the former employee, or are there benefits for the spouse after the former employee, um, you know, expires?

By: Aresen

Aresen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:30:56 +0000

paranoiastrksdp | March 5th, 2010 at 4:20 pm

Loved that quote. One could add that a journey of 10 billion light years begins with a single step. Of course, the fact that the universe is expanding does create some problems.

By: Cynical in CA

Cynical in CA — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:44:38 +0000

Tennessee.

Don’t care.

By: paranoiastrksdp

paranoiastrksdp — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:20:09 +0000

@#19 Steamed McQueen

Money quote from that article:

“Another tip from a watchful citizen early Tuesday morning brought the Greensburg Police Department closer to exterminating the drug problem in the city.”

LOL. Yeah maybe a couple more decades and a few more million dollars, and you’ll have exterminated the menace posed by recreational marijuana.

Should read some of the other Greensburg Daily News criminal justice articles. Someone in charge of this rag is a massive badge licker.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:01:18 +0000

Wow, so much cynicism, at least that made me laugh.

Seriously, though. I’m looking into moving into a multi-family home soon because it’s what I can afford, all these wrong side of the duplex stories scare the crap out of me, too.

By: Steamed McQueen

Steamed McQueen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:57:19 +0000

Meanwhile, back in Indiana, cops are using their resources wisely, as evidenced by this http://www.greensburgdailynews.com/local/local_story_062120702.html

It’s not so much the massive waste of time that gets me, it’s that the arrestees were ratted out by their own neighbors.

By: Peter Ramins

Peter Ramins — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:09:17 +0000

@#16

No way, Marty! If they keep going to the wrong addresses, think of all the ‘plain view’ opportunities they’ll have to find even more stuff wrong, stuff totally independent of whatever warrant they were operating under or about to call and ask for after they knew what to put on it!

By: Christian McClellan

Christian McClellan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:01:55 +0000

@Cyto

Also, if police serve the arrest warrant at the house, they can avoid the need for a search warrant. The Supreme Court court has identified a few 4th amendment exceptions based on officer safety and protecting evidence but they require a reasonable belief that there is a danger and need to be narrowly tailored. In practice they are conducted as a matter of course.

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:56:54 +0000

Thank God- That’s FIFTEEN OUNCES!!!! of demon weed that will not traumatize our children. Those police officers are my heroes! Hopefully, the taxpayers buy them a more detailed mapbook, so they won’t have any more of these misunderstandings…

By: goes211

goes211 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:55:29 +0000

This one hits very close to home. This is the next county over from my home town. Even worse, the local radio station just defers to the sherrif instead of doing any actual reporting (not that they ever do) – http://www.wksr.com/wksr.php?rfc=src/article.html&id=23439

“According to an article on the WDXE website, Chief Deputy Terry Beecham said the department has admitted the mistake and apologized to the person involved. “We apologized, Beecham said, because we were in the wrong.“ Beecham is strongly denying any cover up, or any attempt to hide what happened from local media. A story of the alleged cover up was on a Nashville television station.”

So of course there was no cover up, because the deputy says there was no cover up…