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Mother lets son drive golf cart at resort, gets jailed for child abuse
The Charlotte Observer ^ | May 21, 2016 | Mark Washburn

Posted on 05/22/2016 9:57:33 AM PDT by EveningStar

On the second day of her dream vacation on exclusive Bald Head Island, Julie Mall went with her family to the beach to catch the sunset. Her 11-year-old son asked to drive the golf cart back to their $1,000-a-day rented cottage.

It was dusk, no traffic on the path and his father would sit next to him. A two-block, 30-second ride. She said sure. What could go wrong?

In the next four hours, Mall says she was pinned to the ground by police, repeatedly accused of being drunk, frogmarched barefoot aboard a ferry in handcuffs, jailed in leg irons and charged with child abuse.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: baldheadisland; casedismissed; childabuse; dismissed; donutwatch; golfcart; jail; juliemall; northcarolina; pigfilth; police; policebrutality
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To: EveningStar

Not a golf cart and not a path to begin with. There could easily have been other vehicles on the road, this is not the same as driving a golf cart on a golf course.

She also admits drinking and wagging her finger in the cop’s face.

Sorry, I am not believing a word she says.


61 posted on 05/22/2016 11:07:26 AM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: EveningStar
“Same was physically assaultive and required me to initiate ground control to secure her custody.”

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article78955387.html#storylink=cpy

Come in Major Tom!

62 posted on 05/22/2016 11:10:12 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: EveningStar
"That, whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." - DOI, 1776
63 posted on 05/22/2016 11:22:51 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: vette6387

Yeah I avoid the cops whenever possible, way too many jerks with badges. I mean really, a family on a golf cart. Just issue the citation and go back and drink your red Bull and watch naked people run through the jungle. And that law we have is ridiculous. Hopefully Bald Head Island will feel the consequences of its actions.


64 posted on 05/22/2016 11:24:26 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: EveningStar

1). Golf carts are specifically exempt from DWI laws (figure it out)

2). There are no laws against children driving golf carts or anything else on private property


65 posted on 05/22/2016 11:25:46 AM PDT by cassiusking
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To: EveningStar
Just so that you FReepers responding to this article know a little something about Bald Head Island.

Approximately 17 years ago, Mr. Progunner and I arrived here in NC and bought our house which is on another island next to Bald Head. One of the first major headlines we saw was in the "State Port Pilot" in our neighboring Southport town newspaper depicting a suicide on the island.

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It didn't take long for our neighbors to inform us about a corrupt county "sheriff". Shortly afterwards county residents started coming to my husband because he's a top rated gunsmith with guns needing repairs. Then we really started hearing stuff. We originally moved here because he was a crane operator looking for a job in a wealthy construction environment and just a part time smith. There are no cars allowed on this island. Residents must park them on the mainland and take a ferry to their precious utopia.

66 posted on 05/22/2016 11:25:54 AM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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To: Pentagon Leatherneck

I grew up on a farm and did likewise, but those were family-owned tractors on family-owned land.


67 posted on 05/22/2016 11:27:57 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

As if North Carolina didn’t have enough publicity problems.......


68 posted on 05/22/2016 11:33:43 AM PDT by Boomer One ( ToUses)
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To: EveningStar

I thought the reason people pay thousands to visit or live on Bald Head was so they could drive around drunk in the golf carts?


69 posted on 05/22/2016 11:35:00 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: EveningStar

Nobody commented on the idiot yelling at the cops: “DUDE, DUDE.” do you really think the cops are going to listen to you, and when the idiot tells the cop to come tell what is going on? He could have been arrested for being stupid.


70 posted on 05/22/2016 11:37:56 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: goodnesswins

Obviously her first mistake, talking while in custody.


71 posted on 05/22/2016 11:38:11 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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“But when the chips are down the cops will take the peoples’ side over the government.”

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...........


72 posted on 05/22/2016 11:39:02 AM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: EveningStar
"Bald Head Village has about 25 officers in its Public Safety Department. With a year-round population of 168, the municipality has the enviable ratio of one officer for every seven residents. By comparison, Charlotte’s ratio is about one for every 438 residents."

I think I see the main problem with Bald Head Village, it's name should be Copville.

73 posted on 05/22/2016 11:40:13 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: clintonh8r
“But when the chips are down the cops will take the peoples’ side over the government.” Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...........

Who writes their checks?

74 posted on 05/22/2016 11:40:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Rebelbase
I thought the reason people pay thousands to visit or live on Bald Head was so they could drive around drunk in the golf carts?

No, that's Bermuda Run.

75 posted on 05/22/2016 11:41:38 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: ConservativeMind

There’s a big difference between a statutory age requirement for driving a cart and a prohibition on it for insurance purposes.


76 posted on 05/22/2016 11:45:49 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Rebelbase

Your pretty much right on schedule RC. And MANY of the residents of BHI are quite arrogant, snotty, snotty etc. We’ve had a few in the shop.


77 posted on 05/22/2016 11:50:30 AM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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To: DJ Taylor

Hell, I was driving a John Deere tractor at 10.


I was driving a station wagon at age 7.


78 posted on 05/22/2016 11:51:45 AM PDT by Maudeen (Sinner Saved by Grace)
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To: pangaea6

“I avoid the cops whenever possible”

Me too. It is a sound policy.


79 posted on 05/22/2016 11:51:56 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Rebelbase

Meant to type RB


80 posted on 05/22/2016 11:53:22 AM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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