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D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday evening in Washington D.C., police officers on routine patrol spotted an unoccupied car parked near the National Mall. They deemed it "suspicious," and took a look inside, where they found a pressure cooker. They also claimed to smell gasoline. The officers called the bomb squad, and at 7:45pm they initiated a controlled detonation of the car's contents. Afterward, a search of the car found no evidence that it contained explosives or any other hazardous materials. The car's owner was located and arrested for driving on a revoked license.
"...an odor of gasoline was detected"
In a fucking gasoline-powered car. Where do they find these geniuses?
You need a license to own a parked car? Was he seen "operating" the vehicle?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
True, and accurately summed up decades ago by Orson Welles when he said, "A policeman's job is only easy in a police state."
They broke the rear window and blew up the pressure cooker outside the car. Reimburse? No, they didn't reimburse him; instead they arrested him for operating a vehicle after license revocation, just to cover up for their incompetence. Obviously if a car belonging to someone has moved, it must be that person who moved it, right?
I guess they just needed to let off some steam.
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Paranoia, it's what terrorists want. It looks like they have thoroughly and completely beaten the government of the USA.
Careful attention to terminology is important. In point of fact, they use an explosive charge of their own, carefully configured and arranged in a manner which they hope will touch off any explosive contained in the pressure cooker. Of course, the police spokesman used outlandish terms in her press release. They "disrupted" the pressure cooker? Jesus - I've never heard a military man use the term "disrupted". It's far more accurate when we say, "We blew it to fuck!"
In point of fact, the cops detonated their own charge, but failed to cause an explosive reaction within the pressure cooker. Maybe they should have used a bigger charge?
Idiots. Everywhere you look these days, idiots. Juvenile minded fools, trying to act like important people.
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It's not a crime to have your car parked somewhere if you have a suspended/revoked license
but it would seem that the guy was driving on a suspended or revoked license
He was not caught by police driving on a suspended driver's license: his car was parked at the time, so there should be no probable cause to arrest.
Someone else can still drive the vehicle for him.
Also, the police should have to pay for replacement of his vehicle and replacement of his pressure cooker, before he can be arrested. As I see it, right now: so far: the police have committed the bigger crime, which is wanton destruction of property.
Oh boy are you misguided.
You can certainly unintentionally confess to a crime. Never talk to the police except through your lawyer.
Yeah, usually from authoritarians who think it's perfectly OK to enforce laws which they couldn't be bothered to actually enact.
Like its gas tank?
It was revoked. Did you know that in the District of Columbia, the Mayor or his representative can revoke your license for any reason at all, and the only appeal is to the Mayor?
Sure, why not? Now they can leverage dropping that charge against his not filing a lawsuit for the damage to his car.
I don't know about you, but I've never been pulled over for a routine traffic stop when I wasn't driving.
You lose. DC Code 50-1403.1(a) and (c).
FUCK YOU and FUCK YOUR "THIS ERA" BULLSHIT!
You know what the reality of "this era" is? The reality is that we as Americans are safer (from all types of crime, including "terrorism") than at any point in history, and that DHS or other "anti-terrorism" jackbooted thugs have had NOT ONE GODDAMN THING to do with it!
The reality is that some terrorists got lucky ONCE, and shit-for-brains sheeple like you are letting the authoritarian powermongers in our government use that as an excuse to flush our civil rights down the toilet. Knock it off, dipshit!
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The problem is, stupidity is sufficient. The police don't need to be actively malicious if their institutional culture - "the brainwashing they've been given" - constantly prompts them to perform unfair and destructive actions.
Also, you're wrong. "Naturally enough, when they realized they fucked up they looked around for a way to cover their ass and saw the guy had a revoked license." Yes, it's perfectly natural to sacrifice a bystander to save your own skin. It's also not something you can blame on stupidity. It's deliberate, selfish cowardice.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.