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Posted: 4/4/2006 9:15:50 PM EDT
Good thing she wasn't armed - someone might have really gotten hurt! |
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So are you saying that police should not impound cars or take adults into custody for thier own good.
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So, is there a problem now with allowing people to go on their way? She didn't want a ride, and she was allowed to go. I would think that the anti-JBT people here would be happy.
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The cops offered her a lift, she declined. She could also have asked for a taxi, though why she'd do that if the cops offer her a lift is beyond me. She chose to walk around town at night. I won't say she was looking for trouble, but she definitely could have made some better choices.
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Putting aside the issue of 18 year-old girls being out at midnight with druggies and passing up a free ride home by the cops, 18 year-old girls shouldn't walk home alone at midnight UNARMED. There's a loooong string of stupid decisions made by this girl that night. |
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I have my CHL but I do all I can so I will never be in a position to use it. My primary weapon is the gray matter God put between my ears. My handgun is my backup. My wellbeing is my own reasonability. Not saying that she shouldn't be able to carry a handgun with her, but she lives in the PRK ( no real CCL) and she is not 21. ( not saying that I think that poeple shouldn't be able to carry or buy a handgun until 21). She had a choice to make and she decided not to have anything to do with what the police had to offer. Nowhere in that artical did they say that the poor girl was abandoned on the street. She wanted to walk, they let her. |
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Oaky, skipping over the part where they offered her a ride or whatever and she declined... I have these questions about the story:
One: WTF is the idea of her ride being arrested for "suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia"?? Either he had drug stuff or not. Two: WTF is the rapist had a $1 million dollar bail and was out on his "own recognizance" when he already had a nother case pending? No Expert |
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Her bad. |
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1) He is on 'suspicion' because he is a suspect - he's innocent till proven guilty.... 2) California - don't ya just love it? |
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WHY? WHY Is this SOB out of prison? I'm certainly no expert either, but I'm gussing he's a flight risk? |
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I used to live 3 blocks from there. That sucks. Upland used to be a nice town (a little redneck, but not too bad).
WTF is a Seuti Magba-Kamara? It sounds like she was on her way to Ontario. Bad idea at night. |
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i bet the rapist will soon show signs of an STD and sue the woman for giving him the disease. she'll be forced to pay him several hundred-thousand dollars in damages in a civil suit and criminal charges will be filed against her before she ultimately has to serve several years in prison for not disclosing her illness to the man before she was raped.
i'm just kidding, but now that i think about it, that's probably what's going to happen. sometimes i hate this place. (the world) |
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Suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia --- They probably recovered some devices commonly used to ingest controlled substances. IE a glass pipe with residue. They have to test the residue for a qualatitive analysis even though it is obviously used for smoking / ingesting whatever crap they decided to put into their body that evening. |
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At least the POS was arrested quickly. Unfortunately, he wasn't shot in the process.
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"Good thing she wasn't armed - someone might have really gotten hurt! "
No shit. Thats f'ed up. They got the car and the drug stuff. woo hoo. Streets were save. She gets raped.. Sue the City, I say!! |
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Goddamn you are a frickin' mind reader! |
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I offer to give or get rides for people who are in bad neighborhoods, they usually decline. (There is a reason they are in the neighborhood.) If you force someone against their will, they are in custody.
With that said. What happened to her was horrible. She is still a victim even though she made some poor decisions. Suspicion of drug paraphernalia. PC term for person isn't guilty til the trial is over. Suspicion of murder. Dude is carrying around a severed head and a large bloody knife. 10 people witnessed the SUSPECT do it. But innocent until proven guilty. You understand |
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Why would you sue the city? Sounds like the Police offered to help her out but she didn't accept. |
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She's the dumbass who decided to hoof it. Why the "" next to "Magba-Kamara" is that a race reference? Is "Magba-Kamara' supposed to be a black name? Sounds like a Romulan or something. |
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Meaning she got was coming to her for hanging around (and presumably using) with some druggy scumbag who gets his car impounded? |
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Thus proving the truism that Stupid hurts. Really stupid hurts bad. |
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Stupid hurts.
Can't fault the cops on this one. Nothing in the law allows them to force a person to accept a ride home. Personally I dont buy her story. She prolly willingly got into the car, offered sex for drugs and when done the driver told her "Gee, thanks for the sex...but i don't have no meth." She knew he had the "gun" becuase he's a criminal aquantaince of hers. |
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Yeah, anyone who has ever been around someone with drugs deserves to be raped.
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I fail to see where the cops were wrong here. The woman made the wrong choices... sad for everyone involved, you think those cops don't feel bad about it?
They're people, some of them with daughters. She decided she was a big enough girl to do it her way, and unfortunately she became a victim. At least they caught the bastard. |
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Sucks, but she chose poorly. |
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You can't just expect to walk into a lion den and not be a part of the menu. She SHOULD have accepted the ride home. The police are not at fault here. It was first and foremost the rapists, but it's not like the situation could have been avoided in the first place (though he might have just raped somebody else anyway). |
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You say redneck like it's a bad thing. |
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In CA, possession of drug paraphernalia is a misdemeanor cite, not an arrest. Trust me, the jails out here are too full. Of course, if asshat fails to appear on his cite, a mandatory bench warrant is issued. There is definitely more to the story here. Either:
1. He has a warrant, or 2. He has no license and his car was impounded, or 3. His license was suspended and his car was impounded, or 4. Probably all of the above. When referring to paraphernalia, we're talking meth pipe. Marijuana pipes with residude, but no usable quantity, are not illegal. Hmmm, tweakers... |
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