Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: HankB on December 26, 2010, 04:44:02 PM
-
In Lakeway, TX (a suburb of Austin) a guy was arrested and held for wearing a T-shirt reading "Speed Trap Ahead."
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/in-lakeway-a-crusade-against-speed-traps-1146294.html
He was charged with violating the Lakeway sign ordinance and "engaging in construction operations that produced noise disturbances" . . . a charge which even baffled the prosecutor.
In court, the arresting officer testified "he was simply following orders" from a senior officer, who'd told him a local judge had issued a standing order to have the guy arrested.
The presiding judge "jumped 3 inches out of his chair" when he heard that, and ultimately found the man not guilty on all counts. (He basically said that if Leslie, the City of Austin's unofficial bearded transvestite mascot can parade around in skimpy women's clothing and not get arrested, Lakeway can't arrest this guy for his T-shirt.)
Not quite the end of the story . . .
After being acquitted, the arrestee filed suit against the city. A "confidential settlement" was arrived at, and the currently-unemployed arrestee says he doesn't have to worry about working for 4 or 5 months.
A pity the settlement didn't come out of the arresting officer's paycheck . . .
-
He basically said that if Leslie, the City of Austin's unofficial bearded transvestite mascot can parade around in skimpy women's clothing and not get arrested, Lakeway can't arrest this guy for his T-shirt.
Is that the guy that migrated from St. Louis a few years ago?
-
Some towns welcomed it so much that Texas passed a law capping the revenue small municipalities may receive from speeding tickets at 30 percent of their total budgets.
says much