Brickbat: Rule of Law

Lee County Sheriff's Office

A federal judge has issued a restraining order against Lee County, North Carolina, Sheriff Tracy Carter and his deputies. The judge found Carter and his deputies have interfered with those trying to serve subpoenas in a use-of-force lawsuit against the department. In fact, Carter had deputies arrest one man who served him with a subpoena.

Comments

[AlmightyJB]

What good is being sheriff if you can't do whatever you want?

[AlmightyJB]

"Thomas said he was attacked after he became mentally disoriented and asked a deputy for help."

Why would you ask a cop for help? He was asking for it.

[Suthenboy]

We had a similar problem here in Louisiana a while back. Private detectives investigating cases were being harassed and sometimes detained. Apparently Sheriffs are touchy about their friends and supporters being spied on/sued.

A few lawsuits and a new law seems to have fixed the problem.

This case sounds like Tracy Carter has a bit of a God complex. Is that a Federal Investigation I smell coming?

[AlmightyJB]

Bad idea

http://www.cnet.com/news/look-.....ical-cord/

Worse idea

http://gawker.com/we-drank-soy.....-510293401

[Rich]

Rhinehart open source recipe [for "Soylent"] yields "Page not found". Hmm....

[Illocust]

Soylents actually pretty awesome. I'm using it currently for those meals I have to eat. The ones were I don't have the energy to cook and I don't want to spend money on pizza hut again. It's quick, cheap, and way more nutritious than what I would be eating during those times otherwise. If I get a craving for something else, I go eat the something else. Soylent is just the hafta eat something or I won't be able to sleep/function meal.

[UnCivilServant]

I have returned.

*waits, looks around, sighs*

No one noticed I was gone.

[Swiss Servator, Nierezeit!]

Your name is...somewhat familiar.

[PM]

Anyone gone from HandR for more than 48 hours is presumed dead and given a sea burial in absentia.

[Suthenboy]

Who are you again?

[Charles Easterly]

Snake Plissken has been gone longer.

Have you ever heard of him?

[UnCivilServant]

Nope*, but there was a Snark Plissken, any relation?

(*as a commenter handle, I know the character reference)

[Charles Easterly]

Thanks, UnCivil, I couldn't remember that he or she used "Snark" so I decided to just make the movie reference and set an opportunity for a chain of movie quotes.

[straffinrun]

I don't get it.

[Almanian!]

/Big

[Ted S.]

Now if we can just make every government-sector worker begone.

[UnCivilServant]

Shill my books to the point where I can live off of them and I'll be out of your tax dollars.

[Swiss Servator, Nierezeit!]

Fair enough.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

You and Zeb.

[JeremyR]

From that same newspaper, comes a story about why (basically) cops were called to that pool party

http://www.fayobserver.com/new.....daef6.html

Okay, in that case, a rowdy party with a fight didn't turn deadly. But it's common enough that you get people concerned...

[Suthenboy]

"It marks Fayetteville's fourth shooting at a house party in a year."

Nice.

[straffinrun]

Nice pic. Looks like he's jerking off the sign.

[Rich]

Also, what's up with his hair?

[Almanian!]

To Protect and Serve

MY AUTHORITAH.

[sarcasmic]

Who enforces this?

[Old Man With Candy]

I don't understand why it isn't legal to shoot process servers on sight. Is the issue animal rights activists?

[straffinrun]

I don't understand why it's illegal to shoot some people and not others when they point a gun at you without justifiable cause.

[UnCivilServant]

Because there may come a day when you have to sue somebody and you want your process servers to get through.

[Old Man With Candy]

So? That just means my range of targets increases to include a few attorneys.

Not that I'm bitter because I got a judgment against me in a suit that I was unaware of (apparently the summons was served to the sewer).

[Cdr Lytton]

A badge on both the waist and shirt? I guess he comes from the Capt. Dudley Smith school of policing. "Hold up your badge, so they'll know you're a policeman."

[Illocust]

Hey, I'd rather policemen be easily identifiable. Nothing good comes from not realizing someone is an active duty cop.