A Sheriff with a sense of humor
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and his new T-Shirt. We need to clone him and send him to Broward County.
Hat Tip Rick R.
The difference between the UK and the USA.
In the UK, there is a good probability the home owner recording the break in was praying for the cops to arrive ASAP.
In the US, there is a good probability the home owner (who already called the cops as a good citizen should do) would be smirking and thinking what caliber for dumbass.
Hat Tip Dale G.
Love me some Audio Early Warning.
Earlier today, there was some party at a small park two houses down from mine. Like any party this time of the year, it extended into the night till 9 pm or so. There was music and a DJ thinking she was funny, but you could hear it if you stepped outside, inside the house was pretty much quiet.
About 8:45 pm I did hear faint screaming and rather than opening the front door, I clicked on the door bell camera. That thing is sensitive! I know it was getting the sound reflection from the houses in front and you could not make what they were saying, but you could easily figure that a female was saying things in anger. Other joined the loud argument and those untrained in the Latino philosophy of parties would have called the police fearing a battle among the Shaolin Masters of the Machete and other Agricultural implements. But at the end it was just another party where Hispanics drank too much and had to over-scream everybody else about stupid stuff.
Now, that brings us to an important point to assimilate: With the popularity of these devices, you have to factor that your voice can be recorded by anybody, anywhere and that can be damnation or salvation depending on the case.
Plan accordingly.
The insanity of the Left in San Francisco: In order to preserve non-existent housing for the poor, we must stop new housing from development.
Even if you tried, you could not come up with such idiotic process. Even the spirit of Franz Kafka would throw the towel rather than deal with such amount of bizarre political surrealism.
To summarize: The developer wants to build 74 unit building on his property which at least 7 of those units will be reserved by law for low-income families. So, 7 families that could have good and affordable housing will not have it because the crazy people of the Mission district and the city of San Francisco government oppose that some white guy would actually make a profit on property that belongs to him and would even generate taxes for the city.
I swear the mother of all tsunamis cannot clean that city.
Andrew Branca: Claim Self-Defense While Committing A Crime? Sure
I often run across the misconception that in order to claim self-defense it’s a necessary condition that the defender be “white as the driven snow,” and certainly not be engaged in any unlawful activity of his own at the time.
While being utterly innocent of any misconduct of any kind is certainly helpful in a general way in any kind of criminal defense, it’s explicitly not a required condition of a claim of self-defense.
Naturally, if the crime being committed violates one of the required conditions of self-defense, then you lose self-defense on that basis. So if the crime you are committing is one involving the threat of unlawful force against another person, as one example, you’ve lost the required element of innocence and you’ve lost self-defense on that basis.
Claim Self-Defense While Committing A Crime? Sure
OK, I am going to admit here and now I was one of those who believed you had to be angelic to claim self-defense. Drug dealer engaged in business gets robbed at gunpoint and defends himself? I would have expected he would get a substantial time in prison.
Go read the rest of the article as it is short and sweet.
And I will continue te be angelic in my dealings with fellow human beings.