Posted on 12/21/2013 8:18:15 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A video has gone viral after a Long Island man recorded a police officer who threatened to ticket him if he washed his car in the driveway. As WCBS 880′s Sophia Hall reported Friday, the incident happened on Hawthorne Road in Garden City. The 24-year-old said he was washing his 1997 Volkswagen in his driveway when a police officer told him he wasn’t allowed to do that.
The officer said although the car wasn’t going to be washed in the street, which is illegal, washing it in the driveway would still be in the public’s view, Hall reported. No one received a ticket during the ordeal and The Garden City Police Department had no comment about the incident.
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I think there should be some way to bring charges against the person who called the cops on this car washing guy.
“It would be a fun project to get the local media involved and make the neighbor and the cops look like fools.”
If you have that amount of time to spare on it.
:: The neighbor called the cops on these guys and the police had to respond. ::
Well, no the beat-officer didn’t ^have to respopnd^. Neither did his “lieutenant” if he would have asked one simple question: “Is the vehicle being washed in the street or in the driveway?”
Municipal code violations do not supercede the 4th Amendment. Tell the officer, “Please exit my property and return with a proper ^felony^ warrant.”
Say nothing else and do not let the officer gain access to your property past the sidewalk. (Note that, as the bus passed by, the officer’s car was parked in the middle of the street, blocking ^legal^ egress from the driveway - - - an indication of a felony investigation).
Washing your car in the driveway is as American as apple pie!
What guy hasn’t devoted an afternoon to something like this at least once?
When I was young, I would wash my Camaro in our driveway every Saturday morning. But that was before America turned into a police state.
But that is not a fact at all. Not in this case.
Writing on what is thought of the neighbor thinks of the complainer in FERTILIZER on the front lawn is far more effective, as it stays for a long time
Where’s he supposed to wash his car? In his bedroom?
Stake out the cop’s house and have him give a ticket to himself if he washes his car.
How about washing your car windows? That sounds like a REALLY big crime!
Costs a small fortune to pay property taxes in Nassau County (Long Island). What if he was washing window panels on his driveway? Effin Lieberal tyrants are also irrational do-gooders of their god named ‘equality’. Anyone should be able to wash anything in their driveway unless its highly toxic which washing a car ain’t.
No, they didn't. They only need to respond if the neighbor claims that a crime is being committed.
The cops have a duty to verify that some reasonable suspicion exists that a crime is being committed before accusing someone of committing a crime.
Obviously, a person's driveway is not a "public place". The cops have a duty to question the neighbor regarding the elements of a purported crime.
Your statement is the same thinking that causes police to harass people legally carrying firearms. The cops have a duty to question anyone reporting a "man with a gun" in order to determine whether any cause exists to suspect that a crime is being committed. The alternative is to treat the exercise of a right as suspicion of a crime.
We are not allowed to wash our vehicles even in our driveways in Boise. City is concerned about chemicals going in the drains making it to the river.
I live on a corner and wash my truck on the side and halfway in the street. None of my neighbors have ever complained and if they did then flux em.
None of their business and what’s a little water left on the street any harm? Dries fast where I live and I use very little of it as I’m conscious not to waste. I’m a ‘conservationalist conservative’, eheheheheh.
WTH — is the cop a shill for the local carwash?????
And he reads from the ordinance that says that you can’t wash your car in a public place — a public place.
The guy’s driveway is NOT a public place.
His house can be seen by the public. It’s in the public view. Just because the public can see it doesn’t make it a public place.
On the upkside — atleast they didn’t shoot his dog.
Control Freaks
Why be nice about it?
When I was putting my fifty foot tower up for my amateur radio antenna's -- ON MY OWN PROPERTY -- the neighbor who lived west of me complained vehemently to the local village constantly while trying to stop me.
Problem for her was, written in the Village ordinances and by-laws was the fact that while other radio tower structures were severely limited, amateur radio was not. (That exclusion was by design, to comply with FCC Part 95.)
So when she realized she was getting nowhere with the village - who had no option other than to approve my structure - she started openly complaining to neighbors, then my wife, then me.
One day while we're putting the antenna's on top of the tower, she crossed over onto my property and said very loudly "I don't want to have to look at that thing every time I look out my kitchen window!" So I told her "then keep you kitchen window blinds closed, problem solved" followed by an abrupt "get off my property now."
Her constant nagging and complaining went on for about a year and I kept ignoring it. One day she called the police because I was "interfering with her computer speakers." The officer visited her house, then came over to attempt to tell me to stop what I was doing. I told him I'm federally licensed to do what I'm doing and he wasn't legally authorized to tell me anything pertaining to my radio communications.
Officer departed, coming back about an hour later with the same complaint, informing me if he had to come back again, he'd arrest me for "disturbing the peace." I informed him should he come back he'd best bring his watch commander, whom I know personally.
Sure enough, another hour goes by and Sheriff' Deputy is at my door, this time with the watch commander. So I opened my door, looked the watch commander in the eye and said "So, what's up Robb? What brings you here? Arresting me?"
He responded "No" followed by ordering the Sheriff's Deputy to apologize for saying he'd arrest me on a trumped up bullshit charge. They then had to go to the complaining neighbor's house and inform her there was nothing they could do, "it's out of their jurisdiction."
That was about a year ago. Shortly after that incident I painted a satellite dish bright pink and mounted it on my tower, pointing straight at her kitchen window.
Now, there was nothing connected to that satellite dish at all. Yet somehow, "everything" in her house was now getting interference.
I left that dish on my tower pointed straight at her window until the day she moved out about a month ago now.
That dish was up for about a year. It had the intended effect and my new neighbors are much nicer. Zero complaints about interference and frankly the husband thinks my hobby is "cool."
The citizens stopped using tar and feathers on tyrants like this Jack booted thug.
Garden City is unique entity. The police have two functions- one is to keep the border safe from the Hempstead inhabitants and the other is raise revenue by stopping landscaping trucks passing thru.
I guess the Mob will install hidden underground carwashes now and make a killing cleaning cars.
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