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/Sorry had to

Glad I don't live there, had police come knocking at my door because it was listed as a criminals address and my current address gets mail from a convicted child killer.

Jesus?.

If you don't share a name with someone doing anything illegal, you have nothing to worry about.

T-Luv: If you don't share a name with someone doing anything illegal, you have nothing to worry about.

+1

Unavailable for comment.

Speaking of sharing names, I've been wondering: if you have the same name as somebody on the "do not fly" list and change your name, will whoever is in charge of making up that list notice and update it? I was thinking that if John D. Imablowupurplane becomes Charles F. Usaalltheway, he's probably home free.

I thought it was bad when the county tax authority had the personal property taxes of me and another guy intermingled. At least that was only an hour trip down to their office to fix the problem.

It kind of sucks having a really common name.

I don't see the problem here. The guy's where detained, found to be innocent and set free. That is how the system is supposed to work. If in the corse of questioning them, the officers found or saw something leading to terrorist ties, no one would be complaining.

Alt_Login:

What system are you in?

Detaining innocent people is not how it is supposed to work.

Fail.

My name is comprised of random letters in a completely nonsensical order to prevent this sort of confusion. Unfortunately, people keep asking me about delivery times and prices on Warcraft gold.


/Ni hao ma?

nothing to do with this article but I like fail pictures and cant find any today can someone post some please.

aladywhoknows: Alt_Login:

What system are you in?

Detaining innocent people is not how it is supposed to work.

Fail.

A lot has changed since 9/11, we can't investigate crimes now. By the time we get around to being sure pretty someone did it, something could happen!

In 2003, a Maryland man collected a $1.3 million payout after an FBI agent mistook him for a bank robber and shot him in the face.


I hate it when I get shot in the face.


Copas, then the pastor of a Methodist church in Totowa, Passaic County, was helping a friend buy a car at a Paramus dealership in May 2001 when FBI agents surrounded him in the parking lot. An employee at the dealership had told police that Copas resembled an accused child pornographer profiled on the television show "America's Most Wanted."

As employees and passers-by watched, agents rifled through Copas' car, ran checks on his credit cards and grilled him about photos of his children in his wallet, Copas recalled in a recent interview. "This FBI agent was desperate for me to be the guy," he said.

After two hours, Copas said, agents agreed to take him to a local police station, where a routine fingerprint exam proved he was not their fugitive.

Copas said the agents never apologized, but that one told him they were only trying to protect children.


THINK OF THE GODDAMN CHILDRENS!


Measuring how often such mistakes happen is difficult because no one requires law enforcement agencies to catalogue them, according to Radley Balko.

aladywhoknows: Alt_Login:

What system are you in?

Detaining innocent people is not how it is supposed to work.

Fail.

Now, they didn't know they where innocent until they questioned them, did they. The info that the government had was actionable. Why are you defending a suspected child raper anyhow? HMMm?

Alt_Login: I don't see the problem here. The guy's where detained, found to be innocent and set free.


Or shot in the face.

Alt_Login 2008-05-25 02:18:26 PM
I don't see the problem here. The guy's where detained, found to be innocent and set free. That is how the system is supposed to work. If in the corse of questioning them, the officers found or saw something leading to terrorist ties, no one would be complaining.

FTFA:

In a 2006 study for the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, Balko estimated that at least 40 innocent people had died in bungled SWAT raids in the past 20 years, and countless more officers and suspects had been killed or injured.


/that's why

Misleading title!
If these men were really innocent, they would not have been arrested, now would they?

Alt_Login:

Now, they didn't know they where innocent until they questioned them, did they. The info that the government had was actionable. Why are you defending a suspected child raper anyhow? HMMm?

There is a difference between "being innocent" and "not being the guy we're looking for".

I'm still upset there are no Sarah Conner pictures

I got pulled over one time because my car matched the description of a wanted gang leader. Yeah, apparently gang leaders drive '97 Honda Civic hatchbacks.

I remember it specifically because it was right around Christmas time and he asked me if I had any automatic weapons in the glove box.

/WTF?
//when he let me go I felt like I had gotten away with something

spazzm: Misleading title!
If these men were really innocent, they would not have been arrested, now would they?

Best line to get out of jury duty.

KwameKilstrawberry: FTFA: In a 2006 study for the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, Balko estimated that at least 40 innocent people had died in bungled SWAT raids in the past 20 years, and countless more officers and suspects had been killed or injured.

But the people who died were found guilty of thought crimes and declared enemy combatants.

Alt_Login: I don't see the problem here.

Got tired of trolling 800531607?

SpiderKing: I got pulled over one time because my car matched the description of a wanted gang leader. Yeah, apparently gang leaders drive '97 Honda Civic hatchbacks.

I remember it specifically because it was right around Christmas time and he asked me if I had any automatic weapons in the glove box.

/WTF?
//when he let me go I felt like I had gotten away with something

Friends and I went to Galveston when I was in high school, and on the way back we got pulled over 3 times because my friend's truck resembled a criminal's truck who had just robbed two gas stations. Never mind that they were different models and 10 years apart on description, the green color set 'em off. I was drunk as hell in the back, and scared shiatless (being 17 at the time can do that to you).

The guy arrested at work decline to comment. Translation: getting sooooo paid, and good for him.

jjorsett: Speaking of sharing names, I've been wondering: if you have the same name as somebody on the "do not fly" list and change your name, will whoever is in charge of making up that list notice and update it? I was thinking that if John D. Imablowupurplane becomes Charles F. Usaalltheway, he's probably home free.

On your passport they usually put your other known names. They'd get you that way.

But the TSA would probably be too busy trying to figure out if your deodorant is under 100ml to notice.

They MUST have been terrorists. As an God fearing American Patriot, I would rip the heart from each with a spoon so that they would die a slow and painful death.

That's what Jesus would have done.

/God bless America and Jebus!!!!!!

SpiderKing: Yeah, apparently gang leaders drive '97 Honda Civic hatchbacks.

Well... some folks buying Civics wouldn't bat an eye at putting $20K or more into them.

Some folks call them the new Deuce Coupe, but most of the money gets spent on neon lighting, garish wings, body kits, elaborate stereo systems, etc. I think the guys who built Deuce Coupes did more to the engine bay than just clean it, so I think they're in two different leagues.

I lived in NJ off and on while working in NY (bartender) . I would regularly get stopped asking where I was going, its a farking police state. Curious how many of these 'mistakes' take place in NJ

If you hate cops, you'll love Fark.com!



/calm down, haters. People make mistakes.

In the cops defense, they probably did something anyways.

"a mistake that was made in an earnest attempt to find the guy who lived in this house for years."

Where were these assholes say, YEARS AGO when they could have arrested the right guy then?

OMG I HATE COPS THEY DON'T DO EVERYTHING PERFECTLY AND SOMETIMES THEY ASK ME QUESTIONS OMFWTFBBQ POLICE STATE NAZIS!

These are not the dorks you're looking for.

aladywhoknows: Alt_Login:

What system are you in?

Detaining innocent people is not how it is supposed to work.

Fail.

To play devils advocate, mistakes happen.

MonkeyBoy666: Well... some folks buying Civics wouldn't bat an eye at putting $20K or more into them.

Some folks call them the new Deuce Coupe, but most of the money gets spent on neon lighting, garish wings, body kits, elaborate stereo systems, etc. I think the guys who built Deuce Coupes did more to the engine bay than just clean it, so I think they're in two different leagues.

Yeah, I've seen gangsta kids with tricked out Civics thinking that a Honda is a cool car (especially the Vietnamese gangs in Michigan), but a 1997 hatchback?

/srsly?
//DX model, even

crazyeddie: OMG I HATE COPS THEY DON'T DO EVERYTHING PERFECTLY AND SOMETIMES THEY ASK ME QUESTIONS OMFWTFBBQ POLICE STATE NAZIS!

Good luck fixing your front door. Hope you don't live in a dangerous neighborhood. Also, me and ten friends will be busting in your door tonight, and I hope you comply with everything we say!

crazyeddie: OMG I HATE COPS THEY DON'T DO EVERYTHING PERFECTLY AND SOMETIMES THEY ASK ME QUESTIONS OMFWTFBBQ POLICE STATE NAZIS!

Can't wait for them to accidentally serve you a warrant (in a post-9/11 world all warrants are served by SWAT) because you have the same name as a suspect, then get shot because you stood up when they broke down your front door.


/BTW, that scenario has already happened

MattyFridays: The guy arrested at work decline to comment. Translation: getting sooooo paid, and good for him.

Eaxactly. I wouldn't mind being arrested at work if the only fall out was some inconvenience and a check.

92 year old Kathryn Johnston would like to voice her opinion on botched raids, but unfortunately she won't have that opportunity due to being shot full of holes.

bacccc: They MUST have been terrorists. As an God fearing American Patriot, I would rip the heart from each with a spoon so that they would die a slow and painful death.


I read that as American Parrot.

SpiderKing: /srsly? //DX model, even

Those folks almost always buy DX models, because they're cheap. Performance isn't important to them, so the more money they have available to waste on pointless crap the better.

Though in '96-00 CX was the low-end Civic Hatchback & DX was the high-end. LX/EX is only on coupes & sedans.


/Used to own a '96 Coupe
//In '96

Psychotropic:
92 year old Kathryn Johnston would like to voice her opinion on botched raids, but unfortunately she won't have that opportunity due to being shot full of holes.

Oh, you mean "Kathryn Johnston", aka Mullah Omar Said bin Allawi? Wow, you'll apparently believe any nonsense the liberal media cook up to make the government look bad.

strathmeyer: Also, me and ten friends will be busting in your door tonight, and I hope you comply with everything we say!

You had busted into my house last night and left a copy of this behind...

MonkeyBoy666: Those folks almost always buy DX models, because they're cheap. Performance isn't important to them, so the more money they have available to waste on pointless crap the better.

Though in '96-00 CX was the low-end Civic Hatchback & DX was the high-end. LX/EX is only on coupes & sedans.


/Used to own a '96 Coupe
//In '96

Huh, so I had the old high end model? I learned something today.

And I had mine in early 2000. That's why I was surprised I matched the description, I bought the farker from a purely practical standpoint.

/boring

You'll get used to it.

/you'll have to.
//or else...
///had to, but not sorry about it.

MonkeyBoy666: crazyeddie: OMG I HATE COPS THEY DON'T DO EVERYTHING PERFECTLY AND SOMETIMES THEY ASK ME QUESTIONS OMFWTFBBQ POLICE STATE NAZIS!

Can't wait for them to accidentally serve you a warrant (in a post-9/11 world all warrants are served by SWAT) because you have the same name as a suspect, then get shot because you stood up when they broke down your front door.


/BTW, that scenario has already happened

THIS. If it were the cops politely knocking on the door, and saying "Oh, we're sorry to trouble you, have a good day" when they see it's not you, that would be one thing. But it's not.

Noe only in New Jersey. In Atlanta I was extradited to Troop County Georgia because my middle name was not Catherine.
All because a Fulton County police officer could not read my DRIVERS LICENSE. Then at Fulton County jail they were like ooops want to let you go...but Troop County wanted to come and get the girl who was not me...ALL BECAUSE GET THIS-----she wrote a 100 bad check to some pizza restaurant. The longest 12 hours of my life. Till they realized the freaking SNAFU. So yes, it happens. I had just watched that Richard Gere movie where he was falsely put in to jail in China like 2 days before also.

Nice to know that when the cops accidentally shoot me in the face, they'll reimburse me for my pain and suffering.

You know, if I'm not dead.