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Posted: 9/5/2010 8:24:29 AM EDT
Feds Fine Oregon Company $30K Over 3-letter Word(AP) MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - A three-letter word may cost one of the nation's oldest air ambulance operators a $30,000 fine. The word is "our" - a possessive personal pronoun meaning it belongs to us. But the U.S. Department of Transportation says that was the wrong word for Mercy Flights of Oregon to use to describe a helicopter technically owned by another company. The Mail Tribune reports that the helicopter was purchased for Mercy Flights' exclusive use, but a separate company was formed for the deal, and it has ownership on paper. The DOT says Mercy Flights broke laws prohibiting unfair and deceptive practices in the sales of air transportation by saying it is "our helicopter." The nonprofit was fined $30,000 but it will only have to pay half if it avoids other pronoun violations for a year. |
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Freaking grammar nazis have actual punitive powers now!
Gene5, if you are reading this, don't write anything! |
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I kind of see where the Fed gets the nerve but how much of MY tax money was used to prosecute this?
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A $30,000 fine for a non-profit that does air evac of critical medical patients? WTF.
Where does the DOT think that money is going to come from? It's going to cost someone some money and it isn't going to be coming from the profits from some fat cat businessman because there are no fucking profits.
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So..........................................we now have Pronoun Posses?
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Thank goodness the DOT is keeping a sharp eye out and accomplishing things for the general welfare that no individual state or private entity could hope to accomplish. Just another example of one of our fine bureaucracies at work keeping the nation running like a well-oiled machine and protecting her citizens from fraud and deceit.
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When do we get to fine politicians for money lost due to deceptive campaigning? |
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We often say, "Our state, our city, our street, our school, our... " and the Fed's are going to fine over a common usage of a common word?
And in what way were any citizens harmed by the use of "our". Sheesh! |
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Im fairly convinced that almost all aircraft are owned by shell compaines.
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In before someone shows up to tell it's it's reasonable for the feds to behave this way.
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Now do you understand why big companies have dozens of attorneys on payroll doing contract law?
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This country is fucked unless we see some radical changes in the next few years.
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Did someone complain to DOT? How did this attract their attention? Did they give them the chance to remove "our" before fining them? Assholes.
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Quoted: Did someone complain to DOT? How did this attract their attention? Did they give them the chance to remove "our" before fining them? Assholes. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Check this out... So I'm at the state fair, and all of the hot dog stands have, in small letters, "about a" next to the "Foot Long Hot Dog" sign. Some asshole bought a foot long hot dog, measured it, found out it was only 11 3/4, and threw a fucking hissy fit of such proportions that all of the hot dog vendors had to change their signs. That person, whoever they are, deserves to be curb-stomped in front of their wife and children. |
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When do we get to fine politicians for money lost due to deceptive campaigning? |
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When do we get to fine politicians for money lost due to deceptive campaigning? They appear to be the one group of people who get a pass on this. If Ford, Proctor & Gamble, or Microsoft made all kinds of promises in advertising for a product, and said product delivered NONE of those promises when purchased, there would be legal hell to pay for the company. However, the democrats can lie all day long in political ads and promise all kinds of "hope and change", then be in power for two years and have delivered nothing but failure, but nothing gets said about it. It would be interesting, indeed, if candidates and/or political parties could be held financially liable for any campaign promise they made if they failed to deliver it. It will never happen though. You would need to write new laws to do that, and laws get written by, well...politicians of course. |
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our country is going insane Well, there just went 30k out the window, it isn't "our" country anymore. |
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In before _A certain someone shows up to tell it's it's reasonable for the feds to behave this way. Fixt |
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Quoted: Quoted: When do we get to fine politicians for money lost due to deceptive campaigning? They appear to be the one group of people who get a pass on this. If Ford, Proctor & Gamble, or Microsoft made all kinds of promises in advertising for a product, and said product delivered NONE of those promises when purchased, there would be legal hell to pay for the company. However, the democrats can lie all day long in political ads and promise all kinds of "hope and change", then be in power for two years and have delivered nothing but failure, but nothing gets said about it. It would be interesting, indeed, if candidates and/or political parties could be held financially liable for any campaign promise they made if they failed to deliver it. It will never happen though. You would need to write new laws to do that, and laws get written by, well...politicians of course. Yep. And the statist-line is that "well you can choose to vote them out next election if you're not satisfied with their election claims". Which is no different than someone saying "well you can choose to buy a different product if you're not satisfied with their advertising claims". |
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Quoted: A $30,000 fine for a non-profit that does air evac of critical medical patients? WTF. Where does the DOT think that money is going to come from? It's going to cost someone some money and it isn't going to be coming from the profits from some fat cat businessman because there are no fucking profits. Amazing, the thought processes behind this one. Someone ought be fired. Any ideas how we could direct a firemission on this? |
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Clever subtlety. I see used it here. |
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Freaking grammar nazis have actual punitive powers now! Gene5, if you are reading this, don't write anything! |
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Freaking grammar nazis have actual punitive powers now! Gene5, if you are reading this, don't write anything! I was thinking of poor old Calgunner when I read this. |
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EPA
DOT BATFE IRS OSHA FCC They're all fund raising departments now. |
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And here the FAA only fined Chicago mayor Richard "grab da gunz" Daley $33,000 for bulldozing two active runways under cover of darkness without even issuing a NOTAM.
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That's like suing over the number 17.... Intel tried that with the i586 chip. They lost, that is why it is called the Pentium. |
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They fined a NON-PROFIT organization that gives SICK PEOPLE rides on a helicopter for that???
It's like the Federal government has rabies but no one has the heart to put it to sleep. |
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People in the Air charter business understand that this is a big deal right now. The Feds probably went after the wrong people, but they are nothing if not clumsy and incompetent.
The FAA has Zero accountability, and that is the problem. |
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A $30,000 fine for a non-profit that does air evac of critical medical patients? WTF. Where does the DOT think that money is going to come from? It's going to cost someone some money and it isn't going to be coming from the profits from some fat cat businessman because there are no fucking profits. Those d-bags don't care where it comes from, as long as they get it. |
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Quoted: Awesome. Don't you feel so much safer already? I know I do! |
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Absolutely. This one thing was all that was keeping America from being a complete Utopian society. Today, the air was fresher, the water more sparking, the grass greener than ever before. God Bless America!!!
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Awesome. Don't you feel so much safer already? I know I do! This is precisely what brave young men and women are fighting and dying for on foreign soil. I understand that DoJ is engaged in vigorous prosecution of Best Western motels, as they are neither the best or exclusively western. They seek up to $46.23 in damages. The suit has been going on for 19 years, at an estimated cost of $36,984,650,000. It's worth it though. Those scoff-laws need to be taken down! |
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