Posted on 12/26/2013 5:01:54 PM PST by moonshinner_09
The family of a 72-year-old woman is calling for change after she was arrested for a five-year-old seat belt ticket. “They said, ‘You got a warrant.’ A warrant? A warrant for what?” said Carol Fulscher, the woman arrested. “I never would’ve imagined in a million years that they would’ve arrested a 72-year-old woman,” said Jeanette Byrd, Carol’s daughter. Fulscher, comfortably sitting on her couch at her home in East Moline, was sitting in a jail cell Saturday night, December 21, 2013. “I was frightened to think that she was in a jail cell, with who knows who,” said Byrd. According to the East Moline Police Department public arrest report, East Moline Police brought Fulscher to the Rock Island County Jail at 10:39 p.m. on December 21, 2013. “I couldn’t imagine what she had been arrested for,” said Byrd. Her charge was contempt of court. The reason for the charge was an unpaid seat belt ticket from 2008. “What in the name of time? For a seat belt ticket?” said Fulscher. Fulscher’s sister called East Moline Police when she couldn’t get a hold of her. She asked police to do a well being check. When the East Moline Police officers arrived at Fulscher’s home, they ran her ID and saw the warrant for the ticket. When Fulscher couldn’t pay the ticket, she says they brought her in.
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It’s her own fault.
She should have told the cop she was an illegal alien when she was stopped. Then she wouldn’t be in this fix.
No, not debtors prison. Debtors prison is for when you owe people or companies. If you look carefully at the punishment list for laws there’s always alternatives, X money, Y jail time, if they chose the money path and you don’t pay eventually you get switched. Although in this person’s case it all seems to tie to failure to appear, which results in a bench warrant so you get arrested but not usually any more jail time than it takes to make you appear before the judge.
The problem of course with them using “common sense” is now it winds up in their logs that they interacted with a person who had a bench warrant extant and did not respect the warrant, now THEY’RE in trouble and could wind up in jail for contempt. Maybe if they hadn’t been sent out on a welfare check, with all the paperwork that implies, they would have just informed the family, but the paperwork put them in a spot. It’s an entrenched bureaucracy that puts people in a lot of “them or me” situations, people tend to chose “me”.
It is nothing more than debt collecting at the point of a gun by the government
It’s the way the punishment system has worked for ages. Heck I’ve got a couple of friends that when fined just went ahead and requested jail, they informed the judge they could not possibly pay the fine and the judge changed the punishment.
TAR. FEATHERS.
And maybe there should be a GD statute of limitations on minor traffic fines if the government can't be bothered to collect them in five years.
That would be awesome, then nobody would pay their fines. As someone that get a ticket every few years I fully support this plan.
Now tell me again how they won't move against American citizens if given orders to by the “appropriate authorities”
Now tell me again how they won't move against American citizens if given orders to by the “appropriate authorities”
So old people don’t need to obey laws. Right?
I saw one last night Where the female officer arrested a man whom she said was smoking. He denied it and said he had never smoked in his life. She cuffed him and stuffed him.
Sure you did
The first big blow to union power was dealt by the union bosses. The economic crisis of the late 70’s (high inflation and high interest) was much worse in the farm sector, thanks to jimmah’s grain embargo to Russia. The grain markets dived, but Russia still got grain from other countries.
Meanwhile, it was International Harvester’s turn at the UAW contract table. Farmers were not buying half as much equipment because of the crisis, yet the union thugs said ‘strike’, so they did. Their big boss said that if necessary they’d break IH. They succeeded;..... the greedy idiots.
There were a lot of bitter union members, one being a neighbor of mine. He told me: “I tried to tell the union local bosses to go look at all the equipment collecting dust at the dealers, and talk to the salesmen. Go talk to the farmers!!”.
Nowadays the union power in the QC is the welfare ‘union’.
White Tractor in Charles City, Massey Ferguson in Des Moines and a half dozen others all went the same way and took the suppliers and dealers down with them. I remember kids in my high school class had made plans to head to the Quad Cities for a good job in one of these plants. The dream didn’t last long. The same thing happened at Maytag, although it was compounded by truly idiotic management.
I guess you missed the part where they said she has dementia. Or maybe you didn’t. Do you approve of arresting the elderly and infirm for minor infractions?
That’s a great quote. Ayn Rand, right?
Revenue collection agents for the police state.
I didn’t miss the part where her caregivers did a bad job taking care of her. And I even said that arresting her isn’t a good thing. But I also understand how reality works, and reality is if you don’t take care of your “minor infractions” a bench warrant WILL be issued for your arrest and the next time you talk to cops you WILL be arrested, not for the infraction but for the failure to settle your business.
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