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Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM
net_shaman writes in with word of a Seattle man who was arrested for taking a photo of an ATM being serviced. "Today I was shopping at the downtown Seattle REI. I was about to buy a Thule hitch mount bike rack. They were out of the piece that locks the bike rack into the hitch. So I was in the customer service line to special order one. It was a long line and while I was waiting, I saw two of guys (employees of Loomis, as I later learned) refilling the ATM. I walked over and took a picture with my iPhone of them and more interestingly of the open ATM. I took the picture because I'm fascinated by the insides of things that we don't normally get to see. ... That was when Officer GE Abed (#6270) spun me around and put handcuffs on me."
FML
...that people who are stupid enough to pay Apple's inflated prices for their products really are stupid.
And that's why they're shopping at REI.
I fought the law, and the law won ... as the song goes.
oh, you imagine a law...how nice.
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I am (for the moment) more inclined to believe the person who went public with something that they would otherwise have had no reason to comment on over the officer who stands to come out looking like an ass.
On his blog, the guy calls himself an anarchist Sounds like he was looking for a way to be a douche when he felt his freedoms were being violated.
He started off the blog about what he was buying. If you were unfairly arrested would you start out by giving such detail on what you were buying and what part you had to go to the customer service desk for? A normal person would say "I went to REI and had to go to Customer Service because what I needed wasn't there..." A douchebag would go into the detail he did.
He has an iphone and calls himself a "rail/rubyist" cause RoR isn't gay enough. He might have been looking to get manhandled.
He has a picture elsewhere on his blog and he looks like a douchebag.
Does your confidence in the impending douche-baggery make it any less douche-baggy?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
he looks like a douchebag.
That settles it then, doesn't it? Case closed.
Whose the guy that keeps saying "Me"?
You would be surprised what comes up when you google image search "inside of atm" with quotes & safe search off.
That happens a lot.
Officer: "You're under arrest for driving with only three wheels."
Driver: "But there are four wheels. Two on the front and two on the back. Two plus two equals four."
Officer: "Alright smart-ass, out of the car."
You mean an armored vehicle being operated by private individuals carrying firearms who are protecting bags whose contents cannot be ascertained visually? Sounds suspicious, possibly terrorist.
A security-minded citizen would indeed take pictures and report this activity to the authorities. If he's asked/told to stop by the guards/gunmen, then clearly these guys have something to hide, and he should run away, shouting "terrorist van!" at the top of his lungs.
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An ATM is not a military or government facility.
Well, here's the part that got left out of the post. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Seattle today, and was about to use that ATM to withdraw money to pay for the Viagra we've been giving to the Afghan tribal chiefs to insure their cooperation.
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The better reaction would have been to piss your pants and faint at having had a gun pulled on you. THAT, by the time it got documented by the supermarket and possibly even in ambulance and police records, would provide indisputable proof that something happened.
Hahaha! Yes, immediately throw your wallet at him, then put your hands in the air and yell "Here, take it, just don't shoot me! I have a family!".
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
See, it's a living document.
You are welcome on my lawn.
you've stolen their property (like Levis jeans) which is not the case here.
Well this certainly helps my lawyer defend me. Those rent-a-cops (I call them radios-with-flabby-bottoms) had no right to touch me! I only lift the finest Lee Boot Cut Low-Rise Carpenter Jeans, $10.99 at Kohls if you're a slave to "property rights".
Silly goose, we would never say anything so totalitarian. The correct phrasing is "Patriotic citizen, show me your ID so 9-11 never happens again."
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