Wrongfully arrested thread?

I wasn't arrested, but I was interrogated as a suspect for a crime that I didn't commit. Even worse, there was no crime at all. I was accused of stealing money from a customer's house, from a locked box underneath her bed in her bedroom. The only time I went into the customer's house was to run an extension cord from just inside her front door to the outside. Turns out, the lady was senile, and her family members had to tell the cops that there was no such money. (Either that, or the family members stole it). In any case, they dropped the investigation.

Sad part is, I was never told any of this. I was brought in as a suspect and interrogated, and never received any follow up. My employer had to call the police station for an update, and he passed the information along to me.

Sure, you can blame him and revoke his vanity plate... Or you could, y'know, change your procedures to something that WON'T fit on a licence plate, like say, "No license plate"

Eh, who am I kidding. This is the DMV we're talking about. We're lucky they know how to spell "tags."

Danny White? I think not.

You know, I'd think it more the case where this man could never get a ticket because the system is flawed. Or even better yet, he could sue for something another. fark, maybe he should get shafted. I have no want of vanity plates, I try to be completely nondescript in my ride.

Posted this the other day... didn't get greenlit, but I found it very odd:

"A League Two footballer has been cleared of attacking a woman in a London nightclub.

Joshua Scott was found not guilty of common assault at the Old Bailey over the incident involving Charlotte Wheeler at the Mayfair Club in August 2010.

He was bound over to keep the peace for 12 months and fined £250."

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*shakes tiny fist in rage*

Wow! Way to "stick it to the Man," or something. . . .

Jesus, people are stupid.

jack21221: Wrongfully arrested thread?

Coincidentally enough, in 1972 I was sent to prison by a military court for a crime I didn't commit. Happily I was able to promptly escape from a maximum security stockade and made my way to the Los Angeles underground, where to this very day I survive as a mercenary.

I swear to god, I'm just going to start submitting every damn news story I see and hope it goes green. Not that I care, or anything.

Europe:

1. no vanity tags issued by the state.
2. no state mandated overly technically complex plates. just a standard that any company can build to.
3. no pro abortion, anti-abortion, MADD, i gave to the policeman's ball semi-state endorsed vanity tags.

and, resultingly, none of the US's bullshiat.

Hmm, is it possible to submit FARK threads as prospective FARK threads?

Vanity plate users are strange people. Attention whores?

Bomb Head Mohammed: Europe:

1. no vanity tags issued by the state

You can get them in the UK...

But they're a bit rubbish. (new window)

I was sent to court and wrongfully convicted of killing my wife. I escaped and when the bus transporting me to prison overturned. I was relentlessly pursued by this dick from the federal government. I eventually caught up with the one armed man who really cleared her and cleared my name.

No vanity plates and no specialized civilian plates, like these (new window). You don't have to demonstrate your youneekniz in every way, A-whore.

I shot the sheriff.

GranoblasticMan: Sure, you can blame him and revoke his vanity plate... Or you could, y'know, change your procedures to something that WON'T fit on a licence plate, like say, "No license plate"

Eh, who am I kidding. This is the DMV we're talking about. We're lucky they know how to spell "tags."

When I was in college I drove a car with Missouri plates (MO). I went to school in Tennessee (TN) and of course my plates were registered with the school using the correct abbreviation, MO. I received parking tickets from the campus meter maids all the time written up for MI plates, MS plates, etc. It didn't take me long to figure out those tickets would never be charged to my account.

I was going to kill my wife for farking around, but chickened out at the last minute. Of course, just my luck, some other guy does it and I get convicted with back to back life sentences. Thankfully I was able to tunnel out and escape. Made a pretty penny from the warden's scams over the years too. Now I'm living it up in Zihuatanejo.

Lone Stranger: I was sent to court and wrongfully convicted of killing my wife. I escaped and when the bus transporting me to prison overturned. I was relentlessly pursued by this dick from the federal government. I eventually caught up with the one armed man who really cleared her and cleared my name.

Did he use Clearasil?

My wife was killed by an one armed man, but no one will believe me.

I was trying to throw this party once, and everyone was over for the weekend. And then my Uncle Bernie died. So then me and my best friend had to pretend like he was alive.

SH: Vanity plate users are strange people. Attention whores?

Yup. Bumper sticker people as well.

Public Savant: Lone Stranger: I was sent to court and wrongfully convicted of killing my wife. I escaped and when the bus transporting me to prison overturned. I was relentlessly pursued by this dick from the federal government. I eventually caught up with the one armed man who really cleared her and cleared my name.

Did he use Clearasil?

Only thing I got out of this story is the guy is catching Hell because of a poorly written computer system with shiatty input validation. Maybe they're trying to use the fines they milk out of him for an upgrade.

Too bad he couldn't use drop table

Didn't some guy do this same thing with motorcycle tags about 10 years ago in CA? I seem to remember this same story line.

I used to think DC cops were stupid.

Now I'm sure

i know this lady who was convicted of killing her husband and went to jail for it, but it turns out her husband was actually still alive. after she got out on parole, she tracked him down. turns out the whole thing was a life insurance scam. and since they couldn't prosecute her for murdering him again, she killed him for real.

It sounds like the system is more broken than I thought. I don't see how someone's plate would pop up in the description of the fine. Is you put NO TAGS down as the violation you should still need to enter what plate it went to. Same for the person with NV in their tag. Just because you happen to have a couple of letters that are used in their fine codes doesn't mean you should get the ticket.

Somebody probably thought it'd be quicker if the computer just moved all the info into the place it thought it should be.

-If I got a vanity tag, it would be REFUND. I really wonder how that would work out...


/really wonder

jack21221: Wrongfully arrested thread?

Don't you know? Everyone here is innocent.

jack21221: Wrongfully arrested thread?

I wasn't arrested, but I was interrogated as a suspect for a crime that I didn't commit.

It wasn't me. It was the one-armed man.

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Don't you know? Everyone here is innocent.

Lawyer farked you too?

Nah. I'm the only guilty man on Fark.

/ooooh Andy. . . .

Yeah, it's a biatch, me and 3 of my friends got sent up for something we didn't do. Luckily we managed to escape, and now if you need help, you might try to find us.

Pert: Bomb Head Mohammed: Europe:

1. no vanity tags issued by the state

You can get them in the UK...

But they're a bit rubbish. (new window)

It's more a case that you can request a specific plate number. It must conform to the standard layout and already be issued. You also cannot buy a plate that is issued in a year later than your car. So you're pretty limited on what you can have.

GranoblasticMan: Sure, you can blame him and revoke his vanity plate... Or you could, y'know, change your procedures to something that WON'T fit on a licence plate, like say, "No license plate"

Eh, who am I kidding. This is the DMV we're talking about. We're lucky they know how to spell "tags."

Or, don't use data in a field to indicate that there is no data for that field. They could just put a little checkbox on the ticket form indicating why they don't have a license number to write in.

I used to be a cop and this one time I was after this maniac who hijacked a municipal bus with 30 passengers on it. The hostages were already dead by the time I got to his hideout ( I did a thermal check and only 8 signatures were there; all his men) yet I was blamed for killing the bus passengers and was given a 70-year cryoprison sentence. The maniac was given an eternity sentence, yet somehow escaped during a parole hearing.

the funny part is, after 36-years, I'm unfrozen to help the police capture the same guy who I brought in decades earlier.