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A woman in Houston, Texas, was arrested and jailed for 12 hours after she held up a make-shift sign to warn drivers about a speed trap. Natalie Plummer was officially charged with walking in the roadway -- jaywalking, essentially -- though she says the police officers who arrested her were just angry that she had tipped off speeders.
Miss Plummer was riding her bicycle along a road near downtown Houston on Thursday when she spotted police officers pulling drivers over.
Read more: Natalie Plummer arrested for holding sign warning drivers about police speed trap | Mail Online
Sounds like this woman needs some help from DoJ lawyers on how to obstruct....
Sounds like this woman needs some help from DoJ lawyers on how to obstruct....
I'm not exactly sure, and don't know how to look it up, but it's my understanding that if one flashes one's brights at on-coming cars (our area's signal for radaring), one can get a ticket. This reminds me of that. I don't worry about it, though. I always flash.
Interesting. I would think her right to free speech would take precedent. She wasn't causing harm. In fact a argument can be made that her actions caused people to slow down (despite the reason) and possibly prevented accidents.
Yeah, you'd think. Although recently with certain communities the police don't want to be video taped, and get real touchy when something threatens their ability to extract money. Don't get me wrong, I fully support the law enforcement community, just with one eye on the watch.
From what I understand they trumped up a different charge to arrest her which was somethig like standing in the street... which she wasn't I believe because she was on the sidewalk. But because it wasn't on video, it was her word against the cops.
I'm not exactly sure, and don't know how to look it up, but it's my understanding that if one flashes one's brights at on-coming cars (our area's signal for radaring), one can get a ticket. This reminds me of that. I don't worry about it, though. I always flash.
If Fred Phelps and inbred clan can call fallen soldiers fags at their funerals then this lady can walk with a sign stating "Speed Trap".
Freedom of Speech.
I'm not exactly sure, and don't know how to look it up, but it's my understanding that if one flashes one's brights at on-coming cars (our area's signal for radaring), one can get a ticket. This reminds me of that. I don't worry about it, though. I always flash.
A judge in Sanford ruled Tuesday that a Lake Mary man was lawfully exercising his First Amendment rights when he flashed his headlights to warn neighbors that a deputy had set up a speed trap nearby.
Here in New Mexico, this is kind of how we deal with speed traps. This is a guy taking care of a photo enforcement vehicle they park all around Santa Fe here.
Gunman in nightshirt blasts speed van: Video
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) - The shooter dressed in a flowing nightshirt who opened fire on a Santa Fe, N.M., speed-enforcement van in the middle of the night likely won’t get away with it because the van’s video camera recorded the entire episode.
Last week the gunman shot up the speed van while parked on Bishop’s Lodge Road near Fort Marcy Park in Santa Fe.
“He walks toward the speed van and he actually begins to fire rounds into the windshield and toward the top portion of the vehicle,” said Santa Fe Police Capt. Aric Wheeler.
The man fired off five bullets from a revolver.
He may not have put much thought into his outfit. He was barefoot and wearing only a night shirt, but police said knew exactly what he wanted to do.
Officers got their first look at the video Friday, too.
“I didn’t expect somebody to be slowly, methodically walking up and taking shots at the vehicle,” Wheeler said.
They did catch the guy later but IMO... he's a goddamn hero fighting facism. Photo enforcement vans here are actually just a private company out of Pheonix, AZ who paint their vehicles the same exact paint scheme as the local police (but their plates are private... not government plates) and then park the vans in blatantly obvious speed trap zone... (like a really wide five lane road that is marked 35mph or where the speed changes on an open road for no apparent reason) then that private company uses the government database to track down your address from your license plate and then split the proceeds with the city.
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
- Benito Mussolini
Here in SC they used to have a van with radar set up on I95 at the 22 mile marker headed south toward GA, and they would nab passers through with a fine ticket for speed, until conservatives in the state legislature told them they could no longer issue tickets unless they were issued by the officer witnessing the infraction.
I'm on the side of the cops in this. So far as I'm concerned both this and the headlight flashing should be charged as conspiracy crimes.
That's a good tax slave. You should get a medal for your obedience.
It's not about slavery. It's about people getting punished when they choose to break the law. If you choose to speed, you run the risk of getting caught. It's a risk/reward thing.
This should be protected under freedom of speech. Personally, I think speed traps should be illegal.
It's not really a liberal vs conservative issue. It crosses over. Both for and against folks cross over. I know liberals and conservatives opposed to it. I know liberals and conservatives for it. For instance, in AZ when I lived there, it was the conservatives that wanted it in place because it was a way to raise revenue without raising taxes.
You don't like free speech?
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