RASPUTIN wrote: 
burn his house down after locking him inside.

MsJudi wrote:
I think all the laws like that are pretty close. We're dowm several neighborhood cats to the local fireman/cat hater. Nothing we can do about it.

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
Then their law is weakass and sucks.

MsJudi wrote:
It's probably a minor misdemeanor.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Seriously, not terminated over this?? Unreal.

Red_Dragon wrote:
In this neighborhood it's a fireman.

 RichardPrins wrote: 
not good enough.

Nebraska cop gets reprimand for trapping, shooting, and discarding elderly couple’s cat | The Raw Story

A police officer in Bloomfield, Nebraska was disciplined when it was revealed that he trapped, shot, then illegally disposed of the body of a 2-year-old cat belonging to the parents of a local veterinarian.

Bloomfield Mayor Phil Schroeder admitted that Officer Wally Holz acted improperly when he trapped and shot the cat a little less than 50 feet from the home of Lisa Kilgore’s parents, John and Teresa Kauth. He then disposed of the body behind a maintenance shed near the police station.

“Larry was a 2-year-old, neutered male domestic shorthair. He was up to date on his vaccinations and was given monthly flea prevention,” Kilgore told The Norfolk Daily News.

Teresa Kauth told ABC 9 news that “I had this sick feeling, I had heard rumors, over the years, that one of the city’s police officers was trapping cats and shooting them.” (...)

Jackson: Gun owner unarmed, unwelcome in Maryland

 RichardPrins wrote: 
I hope I have that much self-control if this ever happens to me. I'm afraid my language might be very colorful.

Increasingly, and openly, ordinary Americans are committing a legal act that some police nonetheless regard as among the most heinous of all offences: it's called contempt of cop.

It's otherwise known as asserting your constitutional rights.

Citizens, feeling empowered, are pointing smartphones, rather than just an accusing finger, at abusive authorities.

Civil libertarians with hidden cameras are challenging the so-called "suspicion-less" roadblocks that police set up to catch lawbreakers. Motorists and others are fighting back in the courts and online against police shakedown rackets on U.S. highways and elsewhere. (...)

And while it is difficult to tell what's driving this new assertiveness, you have to feel it's part of a recovery from the almost supine attitude that most people here adopted in the years after 9/11.

During those years, in response to demands for security from a terrified public, the American "deep state" grew almost exponentially, at a cost so staggering no one seems able to produce a reliable estimate, the Washington Post reported following a two-year investigation. (...)

 Proclivities wrote: 
Removed? That cop should be sentenced to a year minimum in that man's shoes.

Pathetic and manipulative indeed.

 RichardPrins wrote: 
That is an appalling and sickening story, but it's somewhat irresponsible of The Raw Story to use a photo of a Toronto policeman, under a different set of circumstances, for the piece.

Police officer who made mentally ill black man ‘dance like a chimp’ removed from duty | The Raw Story
 
 
When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart : NPR

In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/v-fullstory/3769823/in-miami-gardens-store-video-catches.html#storylink=cpy

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Our county, and particularly our town, spent a lot of time and money making bike lanes all over the place.  Since UNC is so large and there is essentially no on-campus parking, there are hundreds of cyclists around most of the time, and it generally works out pretty well - surprisingly.  Every so often there are some idiots who ride around at night without reflectors or lights - on streets with no overhead lighting.  I nearly side-swiped one such imbecile one night - fortunately I caught a glimpse of him at the last second in my peripheral vision.

okay, no lights on the bike. the attitude of the rednecks people driving cars around here however, is very "damn bike rider needs to stay the fuck off the street." just sayin'.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yeah, I don't give dumba$$ cyclists much slack. I used to ride a lot, and idiots like that ruin it for others.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Yeah, sorry I scratched up your car. Pretty much not the cop's fault, from what I could figure out.