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How Not To Pay a Parking Ticket

Posted by samzenpus on from the living-in-terror dept.

cohensh writes "A Purdue engineering student was arrested for terroristic mischief. After receiving a parking ticket and having a boot put on his car he put the ticket, boot and payment in a box and left it at parking services. Someone thought the box was suspicious and the building was evacuated. Eventually it was traced back to the student who was arrested for 'leaving something that a reasonable person may think is a weapon of mass destruction.'"

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  1. Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them by Dadamh · · Score: 5, Insightful
    See: TFA.

    This is insane. What reasonable person would assume that a box left at a parking agency was a weapon of mass destruction? What terrorist bombs a minor college parking station?

    Goddamn.

    1. Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's not insane. My father was killed by a shoe box, and my mother was raped by a packing crate.

      Boxes are dangerous! The Republicans are absolutely correct when they insist on cowering in fear whenever they see a box.

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    2. Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 3, Insightful

      people are terminally stupid).

      Unfortunately stupidity is not terminal often enough. I blame the nanny state, and warning lables on everything.
      My favourite example: A hair dryer with the warning "Do not use in bath." If you are stupid enough to use an electrical appliance in the bath, you deserve to die!

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  2. Epic Fail by agentc0re · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Prosecutors will decide next week if there is enough evidence for the charges facing Sun to stick. If they do, he could face serious fines and jail time.
    So this poor kid has to stay in jail until they...find a convenient time to accuse him of "terrorism"? They had no trouble rushing to the point of accusing him that it was a "weapon of mass destruction"... and why is anyone calling this box that in the first place? Wouldn't IED be more fitting? This whole story is full of fail. I hope this kid gets some good lawyers and sues the shit out of anyone accusing him of terrorism.

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