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Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« on: August 14, 2009, 05:01:43 PM »
A poster-poster?  That's someone that posts posters, of course!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-obama-joker-suspect-081309,0,4959018.story

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CLERMONT - Clermont police have interviewed one suspect who is admitting to putting up the dozens of posters pasted around the city depicting President Obama as the Joker character from the Batman film The Dark Knight, city officials confirmed.

Assistant City Manager Darren Gray said city officials have an individual "admitting to putting up 500" of the posters.

Clermont Police Capt. Eric Jensen said the male individual has admitted to putting up some signs, but investigators suspect others were involved and their investigation is continuing.

"We have talked to an individual," Jensen said. "He only admitted to some of it...We're still tracking down leads and talking to folks. We have not arrested anybody."

At this point officials are not sure how much damage was caused by the signs or the dollar amount associated with the clean-up.

Dozens of the posters were pasted around the city earlier this week. A pair of the posters were pasted to a Clermont Post Office collection box. They prompted the postmaster to contact the Postal Inspector's office, which is looking at potential federal crimes for defacing federal property.

City officials, meanwhile, are trying to determine what local crimes might be associated with the posting of the images on public and private properties. They've also been busy ripping down the sticky signs because they're a violation of city ordinance regarding illegal signs.

Jensen said he doesn't have a good count on the number of posters put up because, he said, "People are going out and tearing them down."

In a press release put out late today, Jensen said the suspect "also asked if he could video tape the encounter with the officers." Clermont Police declined that request.

"Currently we are still conducting interviews of victims, witnesses, and other suspects who were placing the Obama Joker Poster throughout our city," Jensen said in the statement. "We believe that the postings are the result of multiple suspects. We are hopeful that we can develop enough information to present charges of vandalism to the State Attorney's Office for review."

He did not have a specific reason why the individual who admitted to putting up the posters spent so much time sticking them to surfaces around the city, but Jensen suspects it may have something to do with a contest linked to the image of the President in white face and smeared lipstick, like the Joker.

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I sez:  this is coming from higher up and trickling down to LEOs. 

Obama and company are hurt by this and by the town hall situation, so it's Chi-town rules against any who disagree.
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2009, 05:34:06 PM »
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City officials, meanwhile, are trying to determine what local crimes might be associated with the posting of the images on public and private properties.

Just arrest someone - We'll figure out something to charge them with later!
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2009, 05:35:40 PM »
Isn't posting image on private property without the owner's consent a form of vandalism, just like graffitti?
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2009, 05:44:29 PM »
Isn't posting image on private property without the owner's consent a form of vandalism, just like graffitti?

I think so. It can also be prosecuted as littering, I believe. But I'm no legal expert.

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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2009, 05:51:58 PM »
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2009, 05:52:57 PM »
I think so. It can also be prosecuted as littering, I believe. But I'm no legal expert.

By the time the Obama "justice" department gets done, he'll be the only detainee in Gitmo...  :rolleyes:
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2009, 05:57:44 PM »
Remember how people were discussing the artist who drew Obama's portrait? THe one this image is based on?

Everybody here was calling for him to be prosecuted for his past as a "graffiti artist". How is this different?
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2009, 06:01:55 PM »
So you think everyone on APS is opposed to this man's arrest? 
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2009, 07:00:04 PM »
Not really politics, more legal.  If Obama weighs in, it can come back to the boxing ring.
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2009, 07:30:22 PM »
I'm wondering if a group with some money started renting billboards and started putting up Obama-Joker images there if anything would happen to them?

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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2009, 07:31:42 PM »
I'm wondering if a group with some money started renting billboards and started putting up Obama-Joker images there if anything would happen to them?



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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2009, 08:14:50 PM »
I'm wondering if a group with some money started renting billboards and started putting up Obama-Joker images there if anything would happen to them?

I doubt you'd be able to rent a billboard to do that. The company that owns the billboard would probably not want to take the risk.
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2009, 08:17:33 PM »
And yet, do you know of anyone ever being arrested/ticketed/spanked/chewed out for posting one of these?  And yet I seem to see them daily... and have been seeing them for quite some time now.



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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #13 on: August 14, 2009, 08:39:41 PM »
No, but remember the LED signs in Boston? 
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #14 on: August 14, 2009, 08:46:18 PM »
The Mooninite thing was terrorism (or so they sed), which presumably is different from vandalism.

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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #15 on: August 14, 2009, 08:52:27 PM »
The Mooninite thing was terrorism (or so they sed), which presumably is different from vandalism.

But quite a similar overreaction.
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #16 on: August 14, 2009, 09:16:48 PM »
True

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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #17 on: August 14, 2009, 09:39:08 PM »
But quite a similar overreaction.

No doubt an overreaction. But if he indeed posted these posters on someone's private property without their permission, he should pay a fine.
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #18 on: August 14, 2009, 09:53:53 PM »
Littering for sure. 
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #19 on: August 14, 2009, 10:42:13 PM »
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No, but remember the LED signs in Boston? 

Sure do, but that was a whole 'nuther situation.  Rather than an obviously benign sticker or a sprayed design, the LEDs could have been (and were) mistaken for something more sinister... IEDs etc.

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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #20 on: August 14, 2009, 10:54:00 PM »
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Sure do, but that was a whole 'nuther situation.  Rather than an obviously benign RACIST!!!11 sticker or a sprayed design, the LEDs could have been (and were) mistaken for something more sinister... IEDs etc.


Fixed that for you.   :angel:
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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #21 on: August 14, 2009, 11:02:27 PM »
Littering for sure. 

anything more than that, and I would fight it in court.

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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #22 on: August 14, 2009, 11:03:35 PM »
Title is off. No arrest made, IIRC. I think it's just sending in the cops to spook would-be poster-posters, as opposed to criminal prosecution. The posters make certain natives restless.

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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #23 on: August 14, 2009, 11:04:20 PM »
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Fixed that for you.

Thanks.  You're helpful to a fault.   :rolleyes:

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Re: Police arrest Joker/Obama poster-poster
« Reply #24 on: August 14, 2009, 11:05:31 PM »
Uh.  Sorry, I guess.  What did I do wrong? 
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