Posted on 09/20/2010 12:24:56 AM PDT by Palter
Martena Clinton drove to the Congressional Black Caucus dinner at the Washington Convention Center on Saturday with high expectations.A friend had arranged a ticket, and Clinton wore a special diamond pendant over her black dress. She parked in a handicapped spot close to the intersection of 9th Street and Mount Vernon Place and glanced in the mirror. She decided the diamond pendant didn't go with her dress,took it off and put it in a console.
She displayed a handicapped tag prominently, locked her car and checked with a police officer who happened to be parked right behind her. He assured her the spot was legal. Clinton put her credit cards, cash and makeup in a pocketbook and left it in the trunk, carrying a small purse into the dinner. It was 5:30 p.m.
When she emerged from the dinner at 11:30 p.m., her black 1994 Lexus was gone.
The police officer who responded to Clinton's distressed call told her that the Secret Service had done what many Washingtonians have grown begrudgingly used to:They ordered numerous cars removed from the area as a security precaution because President Obama was speaking at the dinner.
It should have been simple for Clinton to find her car - police told her that relocated vehicles are typically towed to different spots within a few blocks - but this time police had not kept track of where they had moved it.The Lexus was lost.
District police searched for the car for two hours Saturday night, circling the neighborhood again and again. Clinton, who is a travel consultant, and Gardine Tiggle, the friend who invited her to the dinner, waited at the spot immediately outside the convention center where Clinton had parked the Lexus. Clinton has the handicapped tag because her husband suffered a stroke.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Our mistake Ma’am, wrong Clinton.
Well I guess that also proves no bad deed can go unpunished ;^)
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”.
I really don't know how it works. Can a handicapped tag be used by family members who are not handicapped?
Since there was a handicap tag in the car, I'd think the car removers would have taken better care of the car, or not moved it at all. What if it had been some truly handicapped person in a wheelchair?
Yeah, I dunno. That caught my eye. Kinda, defeats the point.
The picture at the link is ridiculous.
“Clinton has the handicapped tag because her husband suffered a stroke.”
“Can a handicapped tag be used by family members who are not handicapped? “
GOD is winking ;)
I don’t know about DC, but in California, the tag is associated with the disabled person, not the vehicle or the driver. In other words, she was using her husband’s tag to get a better parking spot. What a typical 0bot... Going through life with a sense of entitlement.
These staffers are power hungry.
Considering that SHE is not the one with any handicap I don’t know what she was doing parking in a handicapped spot.
Maybe this whole episode is karma....
Yeah, that’s my guess too, that the tag is associated with the disabled individual, not with the car. Anyway, at the end of the article, she found her car but decided not to notify the police, and said “let them keep looking.” The police will have a good reason to bust her... misuse of handicapped tag!
This clinton person is scum. Perhaps if she had walked a few blocks she would have found her own car. Based on her statement, the police should charge her for the extra hours they may have spent searching for a lost car. As I see it, she stole back her own car.
"An hour later, Clinton was nearly home. She had not called police to report that her lost car had been found.
Remembering how police had stopped responding to her pleas - and considering the $165 hotel bill she had just footed - she fumed: "Let 'em keep looking." "
Johnny & Martena Clinton May 2009
agreed
The disgusting part is that they feel entitled to act this way.
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