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Dog Owners Threatened With $750,000 Fine Over Missing Dog Posters
NBC Washington ^
| Sunday, Apr 12, 2015
| Darcy Spencer
Posted on 04/12/2015 4:08:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:10:39 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: nickcarraway
"So he told me that regardless if we put up the fliers, or if other people put them up, we had made the original flier that had my phone number, and that we could get fined up to 750,000," Police.
Can't live with 'em,
But we are going to have to learn to live without 'em.
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:11:05 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
To: nickcarraway
Increasingly governments at all levels are using criminal law fines as “revenue enhancers.” Such a practice is totally corrupt as it places the prosecuting authority in the position of an interested party.(Conflict of interest.)
To: Balding_Eagle
I doubt police took it upon themselves to make the ordinance.
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:17:50 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Balding_Eagle
"So he told me that regardless if we put up the fliers, or if other people put them up, we had made the original flier that had my phone number, and that we could get fined up to 750,000," That brings to mind a whole new way to SWAT someone!
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:18:16 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:24:36 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
To: cripplecreek
The police originally told him to post fliers.
To: nickcarraway
Sounds like a job for the Institute for Justice. As far as I can tell based on the article the only law they broke was failing to file that BS notice. How would they be responsible for someone posting more than the permitted posters?
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:32:14 PM PDT
by
lastchance
(Credo.)
perversion of justice is a bottomless pit.
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:33:13 PM PDT
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: nickcarraway
“108.4 Any sign, advertisement, or poster that does not relate to the sale of goods or services may be affixed on public lampposts or appurtenances of a lamppost, subject to the restrictions set forth in this section”
Am I not understanding something? Doesn’t this allow for their lost dog posters?
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:33:14 PM PDT
by
Roos_Girl
(The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
To: nickcarraway
I agree the law and the threat of fines stinks. Fortunately they can still post notices and distribute fliers at private businesses and residences with the owner’s permission. I bet there are places that have bulletin boards just for such fliers.
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:34:07 PM PDT
by
lastchance
(Credo.)
To: nickcarraway
300 fine per flier
Possible $750,000 fine.
That is 2500 fliers.
Washington DC 68 sq miles.
Almost 37 per square mile.
Wikipedia list 1500 miles of public streets in Washington DC
Just guessing some of this isn’t accessible to common folk.
That is one every 1.6 miles on every street.
If they focused on the area the dog was lost say just 25% of the area. That makes it every .4 miles.
I could see how this could draw the cities attention.
Then are we support someone who choose to live in DC?
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:34:51 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(EGO venit lego tantum titulus Posteri)
To: nickcarraway
I don’t understand why someone would ask police for advice on such matters.
However it is Washington DC.
I took a sign down that I’ve been walking past every day for at least 3 years.
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:35:57 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Balding_Eagle
The police didn’t make the ordinance. It was the petty D.C. bureacracy and administration that did it. Don’t blame the Cops who are stuck enforcing baloney rules and regs created by the gov’t entities. Geez, some people want to blame the Cops for everything.
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:36:19 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(The useful idiots always go first)
To: Roos_Girl
U B old skool....These days even SCOTUS agrees that cops can just make laws up as needed.
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:37:58 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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WOOOF!
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:38:11 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Paladin2
Many pardons; I guess my privilege is showing.
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:41:42 PM PDT
by
Roos_Girl
(The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
To: nickcarraway
I hope they find the poor puppy.
To: nickcarraway
Government can just warm your heart sometimes.
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posted on
04/12/2015 4:52:24 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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