And just when I was being to think the police couldn't get anymore ridiculous.
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No, it doesn't become the law just because some random officer says so, but because some random officer says so, and then gives you a ticket for it! It was probably the law to begin with. But your still missing the point, why create conflict? all she had to do was hold the rail. It not like they asked her to stirp off or anything. By holding onto the rail she lost absolutely nothing and helped the officer in their job. But instead she chose to create a conflict she could easily have avoided and screwed up both hers and the officers day most likely.
Most law officials are corrupt these days anyway...there are way worse breaches of justice, even in the small town you might live in.
No, she's not being fined for not holding the handrail, she's being fined for talking back (or rather, yelling back) to the police officer. I assure you that if she had did what she was told, or even if she had simply ignored him quietly, she wouldn't have gotten fined. It was the yelling that made them enforce the law.
Um. do not blame the police they and I cannot stress this enough DO NOT MAKE THE LAWS. She got in trouble because she got belligerent at what was probably a friendly suggestion not a ?do this or we fine you order? than as is the law once you arrest someone you arrest them for EVERYTHING they were doing wrong even the little stuff. As it gives the courts more leverage.
But this is why when I went to England and told people I was a cop in america they got all nasty with me. Clean up your act MPS.
But this is why when I went to England and told people I was a cop in america they got all nasty with me. Clean up your act MPS.
Most people who work at the Police are pretty idiots these days, at least that's what my opinion of them is at the moment after seeing that article.
So the police officers who singled her out and no one else of the thousands who used the escalators and probably hundreds who didn't use the banisters weren?t creating conflict?tb. said:
In the netherlands we have an unwritten law that states that when your on an escalator, you have to stand on the right side to create room for people who are in a hurry and climb it.
Getting a ticket for not holding a rail seems ridiculous, but I wouldnt be surprized if its because someone sued someone else after falling off. Canada is a neighbour of the US after all.
Getting a ticket for not holding a rail seems ridiculous, but I wouldnt be surprized if its because someone sued someone else after falling off. Canada is a neighbour of the US after all.
Yes most of the fine was for "obstruction" which she is guilty of but it says in the article there an extra $100 fine for not holding the banister.tustin2121 said:
Tis a rather odd story though! However I agree that we shouldn't abuse the police for this. More the people who created ridiculous laws like that.
I am so pissed that for some reason I can't use the quote button.
Really? Do you have to take a test similar to an SAT when getting you job as a 'salesmen'? No? Do you go through a year of rigourous mental/physical training and are expected to make no mistakes from the word go?
Really? Most? Got any hard numbers there cowboy or are you just shooting from the hip? You realize there are internal affairs departments that fire cops for getting the sniffles too much let alone being caught corrupt? That's a pretty serious accusation to throw at millions of hardworking people.
Really really? They singled her out? Do you think. Maybe. Just maybe. They saw she wasn't sturdy or she was doing something else and they said "Ma'am you might want to hold that hand rail." or something like that and she completely flipped shit on them? I assure you that happens on a pretty damn regular basis.
I'm pretty sure they were enforcing the law, and i'm pretty sure that all the other people did what they were told when the police told them to and didn't get fined. She was given multiple warning so I doubt that even if the police spoke to everyone of those other people they gave them tickets, but again my point isn't that she was in the wrong for her original transgression but that she was just so foolish in how she dealt with it. She was behaving like a 10 year old rebelling, she started and escalated an argument which she then lost, tough luck.