Check Lady Tries to get Me Arrested

[iradney]

Thanks! I just watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang again recently and I decided that the next time I joined a forum I would use Caractacus as my username.

so very awesome.

[Daemonmonkey]

Reminds me of a friend who was studying law. He was working retail to fund his studies, and had his law book with him to study when business were slow.

Quite often when he got customers claiming it was against the law, he pulled up the book and asked to pinpoint the exact location of the claimed law...

Of course the customer never could do that...

[infinitemonkies]

I believe that disorderly conduct and being a public nuissance really are illegal.

Being against the law is one thing, getting a conviction is ann entirely different matter.

Of course, with all things legal, your area may vary, but where I live, it's so damn near impossible, (even with witnesses, video and a signed confession from the suspect, [no, I'm not exaggerating]) to get those charges to stick the cops not only wont bother even starting the paper work, they'll walk right by and pretend they dont even see/hear it.

[Jester]

CL: IT IS AGAINST THE LAW FOR YOU TO ASK FOR MY ID!

I am waiting ever so patiently for someone to actually try this with me. I'm a bartender, after all, and such a thing would be hilarious.

I picture it somewhat like this..... (cue dreamlike fadeout)

JESTER: "Hi there! What can I get you to drink?"
CL: "I'd like a strawberry mango double upside down daiquiri, please."
JESTER: "No problem. May I see your ID, please?"
CL: "IT IS AGAINST THE LAW FOR YOU TO ASK FOR MY ID! YOU WILL NOT SEE MY ID AND YOU WILL MAKE ME THAT DRINK!"

Cue me and everyone in the bar laughing, and then me attempting to explain the actual law to this loud-mouthed loony toon.

Now that we don't want you here, you are trespassing, which is against the law.

Technical point: it's not trespassing until you tell them to leave and they refuse to do so or do not comply with that order. Merely being in a place that does not want you there is not the same as trespassing.

If she indeed did go to the Police Station, the men in the white coats would have taken her out of there in a straightjacket long before the Cops would have come to the Store and taken Caractacus out in handcuffs!

I highly doubt it. Talk to any police officer. They get crackpots, screwballs, and ridiculous complaints all the time, and they don't take the vast majority of those people anywhere but the front door of the station.

[XCashier]

Reminds me of a friend who was studying law. He was working retail to fund his studies, and had his law book with him to study when business were slow.

Quite often when he got customers claiming it was against the law, he pulled up the book and asked to pinpoint the exact location of the claimed law...

Of course the customer never could do that...

Oh, I would've loved to have seen that happen!

[depechemodefan]

also loved the spineless manager hiding. I remember when I worked in Walgreens-the store that will give you $5 if you didn't get your receipt. One time someone claimed I didn't give her a receipt, so I called the manager. Manager came over, heard what I had to say...then disappeared. He didn't tell me "give her the $5" or "Let me get the $4." ugh.


I wonder if she constantly walks across the street without looking. Everytime there is a near-miss with a car and her, she yells "it is illegal for you to run me over, I'm a pedestrian!!!!" maybe that's what happened when she was walking to the police station that day...and the car did not stop.

[Kogarashi]

Thanks! I just watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang again recently and I decided that the next time I joined a forum I would use Caractacus as my username.

It's an awesome move, made more awesome by my recent discovery that the book it's based on was written by Ian Fleming (the guy who created James Bond).

[taxguykarl]

I highly doubt it. Talk to any police officer. They get crackpots, screwballs, and ridiculous complaints all the time, and they don't take the vast majority of those people anywhere but the front door of the station.

Jester has a point here...no state that I know of (unlike in the UK) has laws against wasting police time.

[Jester]

Jester has a point here...no state that I know of (unlike in the UK) has laws against wasting police time.

I'm not trying to be a contrarian here, but actually, you are partly wrong. For example, if you file a false report, and thus waste the time of cops and the money of the taxpayers, there is a law against it, and you can be charged with a crime.

Just whining to a cop, though....no, not really. Though if you really piss them off, they could probably come up with something, such as disorderly conduct, obstruction of justice, interfering with a peace officer, etc., etc.

Generally, though, they just send the nutballs on their way.....

[mikoyan29]

If I remember correctly, the only thing illegal to ask for is a credit card number. Everything else is fair game.

[Barefootgirl]

Just whining to a cop, though....no, not really. Though if you really piss them off, they could probably come up with something, such as disorderly conduct, obstruction of justice, interfering with a peace officer, etc., etc.

Generally, though, they just send the nutballs on their way.....

We have a law in the UK called the Public Order Act. Section 5 of the POA is the most useful piece of legislation around, because it basically covers anyone being a pillock in public;

A person is guilty of an offence if he:

(a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or
(b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting,

The real beauty of this piece of legislation is that "threatening, abusive or insulting" is NOT DEFINED. Its whatever a police officer or a member of the public deems it to be (and that will stand up in court). Its very useful.