VA cops gang up on girls buying ... bottled water
 

Between the outright murder of an older lady by the Culpeper police and now this, I have to wonder what's in the water in Virginia.
(1) So what if the girls had (zOMG) bought beer? Is it really worth jumping on a car with six-shooters blazing?
(2) Shame that the girls didn't succeed in running the pigs down like rabid dogs. Crippled for life and thus unable to harass any more innocent people would have been an ideal outcome.
(3) Wouldn't approaching people who are buying beer and carding them have the same deterrent effect? (Though personally, I think the drinking age should be 16 or 18, as it is in most countries that weren't founded by anti-pleasure religious nutjobs.)

UVA student Elizabeth Daly cleared of charges from water-buying incident | WJLA.com

Wonder if the ABC agents have as much ammo as Homeland Security?

I suspect it is only going to get worse.

abuse of power?

You think?

Our father's LEOs were the ones who set the dogs on civil-rights protesters. I think the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Well, I think these days it's 'call out the Swat-Team first and ask questions later'.
A few years ago, just starting a trip out of town, I stopped to get a few things at my neighborhood Bottom-Dollar grocery. For some reason my Discover-Card wouldn't work.
The idiot store manager stalled me for twenty minutes to give four of Fairfax County's finest in two squad-cars time to arrive and detain me for an additional half hour.
The lead officer had me dump all my ID and credit-cards at the checkout for inspecton, then finally called Discover's 800 number to verify it wasn't stolen. At least they didn't have their guns drawn!

Happy Motoring, Mark

What if you'd have walked out after telling Mr. Starched Shirt Manager to go make sweet love to himself? Did he pull a gun on you before the cops came?

If something like that happened, you should sue the little kent for all he's worth. Which probably isn't much, but watching his sorry butt squirm would be fun.

We are surrounded by ninnies and cretins and some of them are cops.
Next?

Giving ninnies and cretins that sort of power should be a hanging offense. Start with the chiefs who allowed those cops to be employed.

Maybe, if I'd known HER sorry butt had called the cops.
Anyway that store has since gone out of buisness (Serves 'em right!)

I think there was something goofy with that account-number. Every time I tried to use it at one certain store, Discover would freeze it. Then it would be declined at my next purchase.
Never had this problem with any of my other cards. Even after Discover replaced the card, it happened again. That's when I almost got arrested. I called Discover, chewed out a supervisor, then decided it was time to stop using that card.
But everywhere else that card got declined, no one ever sic'ed the law on me!

Happy Motoring, Mark