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Dog Owners Threatened With $750,000 Fine Over Missing Dog Posters
NBC Washington ^
| 4/12/15
| Darcy Spencer
Posted on 04/13/2015 10:43:01 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A D.C. dog owner did what anyone with a missing pet would do. He posted fliers — but then, he says, police threatened him with a $750,000 fine.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 750000; dog; fine; newsyesterday; posters; searchworks
To: Enlightened1
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Atlas Shrugged
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posted on
04/13/2015 10:50:04 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: Enlightened1
city government’s running out of toilet paper again are they??
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posted on
04/13/2015 10:53:14 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Enlightened1
To: Enlightened1
Anything to make DC safer is OK with me.
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posted on
04/13/2015 10:55:50 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Enlightened1
The fine seems excessive and strangely punitive, but anything can be overdone, even the compassionate act of posting a lost dog notice, or helping someone post it.
Sounds like this nice young childless couple just overdid it, enlisting 100’s if not over a 1000 volunteers. Then they followed up with additional postings of possible sightings. Someone complained.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:07:18 AM PDT
by
lee martell
(The sa)
To: Enlightened1
If the posters are missing, how can they prove he posted them?
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:11:09 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: Enlightened1
The cops probably already shot the dog anyway. In fear of their lives, of course.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:28:51 AM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: Enlightened1
How is this not an eighth amendment violation?
Pretty sure 20 times the average salary FAR exceeds excessive fines.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:47:00 AM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: WayneS
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:47:54 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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