How Not To Pay a Parking Ticket

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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Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them

[Dadamh]

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.

Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them

[billcopc]

A meta-terrorist who wants to bring attention to the ridiculousness of the global terror-scare ?

Hell, I'd blow up a Reese's cup with 9000 pounds of C4, if it could potentially knock some sense back into the average bomb-fearing citizen (clue: it won't; people are terminally stupid).

Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them

[Profane MuthaFucka]

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.

Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them

[H0p313ss]

Kinda like a Democrat having a gun pulled on him. A good Democrat pleads for his life, a good Republican on the other hand would simply pull out his own.

And statistically speaking, who do you think is more likely to survive the encounter?

Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them

[HeLLFiRe1151]

Whoever has the least to lose.

Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them

[Capt.DrumkenBum]

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!

Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them

[oldspewey]

Whoa, just hold on one second there ... I will tolerate a lot of things but i will not just stand idly by while you impugn the credibility and track record of Anonymous Coward.

Police Don't Think

[flyneye]

"Due to the fact that police thought the box could have been a weapon of mass destruction,"
            Here's where the story starts sounding suspicious, like its a race thing or whatever the cops are up to lately.
Prospective porkers are tested for i.q., not as you would imagine for high numbers, but for low. The reason being, intelligent people tend to think independently and that is a no-no that can bring about judgment calls which in turn screws up the part about bringin in the bad guys who broke a law. The police force needs those who unquestioningly enforce laws, not choose, not moderate, not decide if it's worth it. I'm totally serious. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI) , the long version, not the one the Scientologists use, are further used to weed out the ham from the bacon. Ever wonder why the general public attitude is "hmmmph, dumb cops"? Well there it is. If there were no 9-11, the same cops would've dove on the box like football players, convinced there were donuts in it. My old uncle did the testing locally for years.

Re:Police Don't Think

[bill_mcgonigle]

So, the moral of the story is that if you're going to emulate this guy, write 'Donuts' on the side of the box and you'll be good?

Epic Fail

[agentc0re]

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.

Re:how the hell

[^_^x]

If someone booted my car and I could remove it myself, I'd simply dispose of it and say "what? I thought you already sent someone to remove it while I was out after I paid the ticket!" and leave it to them to audit and trace and sort out. They'd assume I wasn't the one to remove it.

I think the risk of damaging the wheel rims and fender, with the problems of locking a car into a place it shouldn't be in the first place is needlessly punitive, risky, and counterproductive, so I'm glad they don't use them where I live (Alberta).