Posted on 03/29/2008 4:31:48 PM PDT by rarestia
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands.
But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That's because the keg contained root beer.
The party was held by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don't always drink alcohol at their parties.
(Excerpt) Read more at baynews9.com ...
What's lame about it? Please refer to posts # 4 and 11, and especially post #12.
Even the cops can’t do anything about being young and insightful. Made em’ look like bafoons, especially now.
Take your crap over to DU, you’re not welcome here.
Of course they had probable cause, they left the house under influence of soda-pop. Phhhhhttt!
If the kids didnt smell of alchol, slur their speech, stagger around...denied they had been drinking, where was the probable cause????
Just because some kids didnt park to suit you, doesnt mean you have a bunch of drunks on your hands.
Do you believe you are innocent until proven guilty?
I am sick and tired of the police trying to micro-manage the lives of the citizens they are hired to serve!
I guarantee any kid registers anything, everything you listed would be there. “PO” “LICE” world has changed.
The story states only, and I quote: "Juveniles began coming out of the house after the officer used his squad car's loudspeaker to warn that cars would soon be towed, Officer Jason Rasmussen wrote in his report."
I missed the part of the story that stated that the kids were pouring out of the house and started to run away, most likely because you invented that part of the story yourself.
It simply did not take place the way you are presenting it. You are basing your argument on your own misconception of what occurred according to the story.
Worse, the cops in Durham, NC, posed as a delivery service and delivered a package full of marijuana to a frat house. There was no one at the house by the name on the package, which had been refused once before. This time someone inside the house signed for it and put it to one side thinking the supposed recipient might have used the house for an address (as students sometimes do).
Five minutes later the SWAT squad crashed through the door, put everyone in handcuffs, strip-searched them, and did thousands of dollars of damage ‘searching’ the house, hoping to find some other kind of drug-related items which would justify their raid. They found nothing, and the package had not been opened.
Nevertheless, they still charged the signer with drug-trafficing. In the meantime, several pounds of the marijuana in the package went missing while in police custody. (?) (This is the same police force that recently investigated three students for another crime that never happened.) Eventually—after expensive legal fees—the charges were dismissed.
But the whole operation smacked of a set-up—for a crime which never happened.
This sort of thing could happen to anyone (the police “manufacture” probable cause to search your house). And if you can’t prove your innocence, you can be in for a long prosecution (if you can afford a defense lasting a year or more).
Sorry, don’t buy it.
My son was walking home one night after going to a local fast food restaurant. He put a bag into his sweatshirt. It was cold outside, he was keeping food warm. The local cop pulled over and told him to take out whatever he had put into the shirt. He assumed it was drugs. My son knows how they work here. He took the bag out. The cop was so mad that he found mashed potatoes! He had my son take off his shoes so he could make sure he did not have anything hidden there. This happens all the time.
My son knows that anything like that happens again, he is not to go along with the nonsense. They are out of control around here. But, it is time to stop putting up with it.
If I want to throw a party and it gets noisy, then deal with that. Don’t be assuming kids are drunk.
A kid tries to do the right thing and the idiocy that IS much of today’s law enforcement crashes in anyway. Amazing.
I hope the police involved feel this embarrassment and humiliation for a long, long time!
When police respond to an obvious party, they announce their presence, and kids begin pouring out of the house running away, they have probable cause to believe something criminal is in progress.
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Negative! they have cause to believe a party is in progress.. There is no note of anyone running away or behaving as if they were drunk... If anyone had left for their cars it would be to avoid having it towed which is what the police announced as their intention over their bullhorns,, you can’t cause a situation to occur and then use that situation to advance your illegal search...
Quit licking their boots.. They got them good... if their H.S. friends hadn’t been railroaded for being seen drinking out of a plastic cup (THE HORROR!) on the ASSUMPTION the cups held alcohol they wouldn’t have punk’d the cops... I’m just surprised no dogs were shot and no kids were tased.
Ah, yes, justification for raiding an American citizen's home and running illegal breath checks and searches without probable cause, or at least without constitutional probable cause but the new "neighbor complaint" probable cause, and of course teenagers are second class citizens anyway so what does it hurt to trample all over their rights? /SAR
-PJ
So...there were citations for parking and noise?
To think, just how much revenue was lost!! Darn the luck.
No, red, it doesn't "explain" anything, it is simply an attempt to justify this whole illegal move. The cops broke the law and trampled on civil liberties here, they are the cause of the expense and the illegal searches.
Keep hanging in there with this type of LEO and soon you will be living in a real live police state, we are about 3/10ths of the way there now.
LOL!
That is the kicker. The cops weren’t there to protect anyone. They were there to fill the coffers. Here a minor citation is about $100. Can you imagine what these cops pictured?
Wonder how many real criminals skated on by while the cops harrassed this group?
Freedom of Peaceable Assembly?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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