Today's lesson, kids ...

[Hawkmoon]

... if you want to torch police cars, cover your tats.

https://www.newser.com/story/292493/fbis-clues-to-alleged-arsonist-tattoo-and-an-etsy-review.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_crime

Creative police work tracks down woman who [insert obligatory "allegedly"] torched two police cars at a "peaceful" protest. Her lawyer's statement?

Blumenthal's attorney, meanwhile, tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that the authorities' methods for tracking his client down is a chilling example of law enforcement diving too deep into citizens' privacy.

I'm confused. I thought we wanted the police to solve crimes. I guess that doesn't apply when the criminal is a card-carrying social justice warrior(ess).

[MechAg94]

Arson is no small crime they can brush off either.

[griz]

Blumenthal's attorney, meanwhile, tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that the authorities' methods for tracking his client down is a chilling example of law enforcement diving too deep into citizens' privacy.

That sounds a lot like an admission of guilt to me.  It will be interesting to see if the defence asserts that her arm can't "testify" against her. 

On a side note about the reporting:

accused of torching two police cars after a peaceful George Floyd protest

Are they saying it was peaceful until the arson?

[just Warren]

I learned this in kindergarten. Millennials, man....

[230RN]

griz read my mind:

...accused of torching two police cars after a peaceful George Floyd protest...

Are they saying it was peaceful until the arson?

That "peaceful protest" bullcrap bothers me no end.

[zxcvbob]

Notice the word "after".  It makes all the difference.

[230RN]

Per Hawkmoon:

Blumenthal's attorney, meanwhile, tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that the authorities' methods for tracking his client down is a chilling example of law enforcement diving too deep into citizens' privacy.

Yeah, so now some hotshot "community organizer" is probably planning on arranging massive demonstrations to protest that "law enforcement is diving too deep into citizens' privacy."

Yay.  More street extortion and blackmail. Yay. "Progress." Yay.  So our limpwristed mob-pandering re-election-seeking legislators will break their necks passing laws against the enforcement community using tattoos for ID.

This is not meant to be funny.

Terry, 230RN

[Fly320s]

Don't fret, SCOTUS has ruled many times that information plainly visible in public is fair game.

[230RN]

That don't matter nohow for the community organizers, who are very aware of the low legal sophistication of their mobs.

Whatever they can make a stink about... that's the name of the game. They also have bullhorns and confederates who can drop off loads of bricks and 2x4s at strategic locations.

Terry, 230RN

[griz]

Notice the word "after".  It makes all the difference.

Just in case you're not entirely kidding, I would submit that the protest stopped being peaceful no later than when they turned the police car over, and probably before that.

[K Frame]

"Blumenthal's attorney, meanwhile, tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that the authorities' methods for tracking his client down is a chilling example of law enforcement diving too deep into citizens' privacy."

That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard from an attorney.

No privacy issues at all.

Reminds me of one I saw years ago...

People called the police because a guy was in his back yard buck naked.

Police arrive, yep, buck naked. Arrest him on whatever charge.

Goes to court, his attorney tries to claim the neighbors and police violated his privacy by looking into his back yard.

Only problem was... he didn't have any kind of fence at all that would make his back yard private.

Convicted.

[230RN]

A woman's cleavage is private, too.  Don't look at it.

[WLJ]

A woman's cleavage is private, too.  Don't look at it.

Even when a hot casing falls down it and she's jumping up and down all over the place?

Why I tell women it's not a good idea to wear low cut tops to the range.

[AJ Dual]

I just find it funny that the police went all deep-dive CSI crime procedural TV show levels for their car.

Do they work that hard for property crime where an average citizen is the victim? Dunno... 

[RoadKingLarry]

Even when a hot casing falls down it and she's jumping up and down all over the place?

Why I tell women it's not a good idea to wear low cut tops to the range.

My wife learned that lesson the hard way, even after I'd warned her. Of course, having suggested buttoning up the shirt made it my fault.   

[zxcvbob]

I just find it funny that the police went all deep-dive CSI crime procedural TV show levels for their car.

Do they work that hard for property crime where an average citizen is the victim? Dunno... 

They do not.  They say "it's a civil matter" and won't even write a report.  (so that's what I told my insurance company when they asked for a police report)

[WLJ]

My wife learned that lesson the hard way, even after I'd warned her. Of course, having suggested buttoning up the shirt made it my fault.   

When it comes to women every man is Trump

[230RN]

Quote from: RoadKingLarry on June 20, 2020, 09:58:57 PM

"My wife learned that lesson the hard way, even after I'd warned her. Of course, having suggested buttoning up the shirt made it my fault."

The logic thinking response there is that "you invited the devil in" when you mentioned it.  There's no logical thoughtful response to that.

This would not usually be stated aloud, but that's why it was your fault.

Terry, 230RN

[HankB]

I just find it funny that the police went all deep-dive CSI crime procedural TV show levels for their car.

Do they work that hard for property crime where an average citizen is the victim? Dunno... 

[cordex]

I just find it funny that the police went all deep-dive CSI crime procedural TV show levels for their car.

Do they work that hard for property crime where an average citizen is the victim? Dunno... 

They often look deeper in cases of arson.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Even when a hot casing falls down it and she's jumping up and down all over the place?

Why I tell women it's not a good idea to wear low cut tops to the range.

Surprisingly enough, has never happened to me.

I've had it down the back of my shirt and down the small of my back into my pants, but never the cleavage.

And I have some serious cleavage and have often worn shirts with low necklines while shooting.

[WLJ]

Surprisingly enough, has never happened to me.

I've had it down the back of my shirt and down the small of my back into my pants, but never the cleavage.

And I have some serious cleavage and have often worn shirts with low necklines while shooting.

5 out of 6 people say Russian Roulette is perfectly safe

[just Warren]

My wife carried the imprint of a .380 shell on one of her inner side-boobs for over a year.

Not only did the shell find its way into her shirt, it somehow got stuck under her bra and it took a bit to get it out.

On a related note I was at the range next to a guy who was wearing flip-flops and he got a hot empty under his foot. That must have been fun for him.

And once I had a 9MM empty lodge itself in the part of my glasses where the ear-piece meets the lens. Fortunately I had hair there that shielded my skin but it could have been double-plus un-fun.

[Jim147]

If I’m running my cast plinking loads in the 1911 I have to make sure to not have on a collared shirt. It’s no fun.

[K Frame]

I had a 9mm casing bounce off the side wall of the booth I was in and lodge behind my glasses. Burned the living crap out of my eye lid.