Girl buys water, spends night in jail

[Nightfyre]

I found this story interesting/entertaining.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...181104442.html

Felony charges were dropped on Thursday against a 20-year-old University of Virginia student who says she panicked when undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage Control division mistook her water purchase for beer.

According to Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress, the student, Elizabeth Daly, was walking to her car on April 11 at approximately 10:15 p.m. with a box of sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream she had just bought from a local supermarket when the agents—six men and one woman, all in plainclothes—approached suspecting the box, a blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water, to be a 12-pack of beer. One jumped on the hood of her SUV; another pulled out a gun, Daly said, as her roommates seated inside looked on in horror.

"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform," Daly wrote in an account submitted to the court. "I couldn't put my windows down unless I started my car, and when I started my car they began yelling to not move the car, not to start the car. They began trying to break the windows. My roommates and I were ... terrified."

Daly's roommate in the front passenger seat told her to "go, go, go"—and that's what she did, apparently "grazing" two of the agents in the process.

The students called 911 as they left the parking lot, police said, and were pulled over by another agent driving a vehicle with lights and sirens, Charlottesville Commonwealth Attorney Dave Chapman told the paper.

Daly apologized when she realized who they were, Chapman said, but agents arrested Daly and charged her with two counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and one count of eluding police—each carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison and $2,500 in fines. She spent the night in Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

"This has been an extremely trying experience," Daly wrote. "It is something to this day I cannot understand or believe has come to this point."

Either can Chapman.

"It wouldn't be the right thing to do to prosecute this," he said.

Nonetheless, Chapman "stood by the agents' decision to file charges, citing faith in a process that yielded an appropriate resolution."

"You don't know all the facts until you complete the investigation," he said.

Is it common practice to draw a weapon on an underage person suspected of purchasing alcohol?

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

Give you a heads up? shit. Down in Texas the agency hires underage kids to go into liquor stores and bars to try and purchase booze. You serve 'em and an agent comes in and arrests you.

well, a heads-up in terms notifying the ABC dudes outside after I carded them if they still suspected they were underage.

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by Dayze

well, a heads-up in terms notifying the ABC dudes outside after I carded them if they still suspected they were underage.

Yeah but, you still knew they were there. Very rarely is that the case Texas.

The agents worked with you, they weren't trying trap you.

[mikey23545]

Originally Posted by Molitoth

Wouldn't you think ABC would have an agent inside the store watching underage kids checkout? Maybe even with a walkie talkie to the other agents outside the store?

This would have saved a lot of bullshit all over some sparkling water.

NSA could have monitored it all and given the ABC-123 cops a heads up...

That's what the NSA is for, right?

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

Yeah but, you still knew they were there. Very rarely is that the case Texas.

ah, I see.

[suzzer99]

Please local and state police departments everywhere, spare zero expense stamping out college-age drinking. Lord knows none of us ever drank in college, and I have no sympathy for those who do.

Whatever it takes money and man-hour-wise – no amount of overtime or overfunded pensions is too much. Bust college kids for 25 years, retire at 80% of your final salary (goosed to the moon with bogus overtime your last few years) due to "hazard pay", then go work another lucrative gig and double-dip until you're 65. You deserve it. True heroes.

[teedubya]

Is anyone on CP friends with Donger on Facebook or have met him in real life?

Nope.

There is a big red ****ing flag as to this guy's motives.

CP is one of the largest sports message boards on the internet with millions of posts... of course, the govt. is going to assign some shills to monitor the site.

Donger is that guy.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by teedubya

Is anyone on CP friends with Donger on Facebook or have met him in real life?

Nope.

There is a big red ****ing flag as to this guy's motives.

CP is one of the largest sports message boards on the internet with millions of posts... of course, the govt. is going to assign some shills to monitor the site.

Donger is that guy.

Reported.

And, I don't use Facebook. I wouldn't if I were you, either.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Please local and state police departments everywhere, spare zero expense stamping out college-age drinking. Lord knows none of us ever drank in college, and I have no sympathy for those who do.

Whatever it takes money and man-hour-wise – no amount of overtime or overfunded pensions is too much. Bust college kids for 25 years, retire at 80% of your final salary (goosed to the moon with bogus overtime your last few years) due to "hazard pay", then go work another lucrative gig and double-dip until you're 65. You deserve it. True heroes.

Don't get me started on public pension abuse. That stuff is destroying America from the bottom up.

I met a woman a few months ago who was a former police officer in a very large city. She looked to be in her early sixties, and she shocked me when she mentioned that she'd been retired for 25 years. I asked her how she managed that, and she said she took a "full disability" retirement from the police force.

It turned out that she fell and broke her wrist. Since it was her "gun hand", apparently she made the argument that she needed to retire on disability, and the police force paid it. Are there no desk jobs in the police department? And how long does it take a wrist to heal? It was absolutely ridiculous.

And I should note that this is not an anti-police thing at all. If anything, it's an anti-management thing where people decide that they can give away public money like it's candy. 25 years worth of candy.

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by Donger

Reported.

And, I don't use Facebook. I wouldn't if I were you, either.

[Beef Supreme]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Don't get me started on public pension abuse. That stuff is destroying America from the bottom up.

I met a woman a few months ago who was a former police officer in a very large city. She looked to be in her early sixties, and she shocked me when she mentioned that she'd been retired for 25 years. I asked her how she managed that, and she said she took a "full disability" retirement from the police force.

It turned out that she fell and broke her wrist. Since it was her "gun hand", apparently she made the argument that she needed to retire on disability, and the police force paid it. Are there no desk jobs in the police department? And how long does it take a wrist to heal? It was absolutely ridiculous.

And I should note that this is not an anti-police thing at all. If anything, it's an anti-management thing where people decide that they can give away public money like it's candy. 25 years worth of candy.

I knew a former fireman on disability for back problems that didn't have any disability I could see. All he did was sit around and smoke crack on the settlement money.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

What are you laughing about?

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by Donger

What are you laughing about?

You don't see the irony in your post?

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

You don't see the irony in your post?

No.

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by Donger

No.

The guy accused of being a government monitor tells the guy who is freaking out over the government spying on us that he shouldn't use facebook.

I figured it was intentional. The fact it wasn't makes even more humorous to me. But then, I have a weird sense of humor....

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

The guy accused of being a government monitor tells the guy who is freaking out over the government spying on us that he shouldn't use facebook.

I figured it was intentional. The fact it wasn't makes even more humorous to me. But then, I have a weird sense of humor....

It was intentional.

I'm still not convinced that teedubya is being serious with his accusations, though. I think he's just being silly.