Brickbat: Off Duty

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In Chattanooga, Tennessee, Christopher Padgett cut off his ankle monitor and ran off shortly before his murder trial. Police are still looking for him. He got a good head start on them because the Hamilton County Corrections Department doesn't monitor those on electronic ankle monitors on weekends or after business hours on weekdays, and Padgett cut his off sometime around 1:40 a.m. on the day of his trial.

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[esteve7]

so you're saying that dept needs more money, right?

[(((Renegade)))]

After escaping, did he rape Kitty Dukakis?

[Swiss Servator]

+1 chugged bottle of perfume

[Pompey]

I get this reference though.

[Pompey]

Man, I just don't get this reference at all.

[(((Renegade)))]

You youngsters!

[Shit Gary Johnson Says, Jr.]

Birch Barlow: Mayor Quimby, you are well known for your lenient stance on crime, but suppose for a second that your house was ransacked by thugs, your family was tied up in the basement with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there's too much blood on the knob....

Mayor Quimby: What is your, ah, question?

Birch Barlow: My question is about the budget, sir.

[AlmightyJB]

We all raped Kitty Dukakis.

[Radioactive]

and it was awful esp. for the rapists

[AlmightyJB]

And?

[Swiss Servator]

...nothing else happened.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"No. 1," Cranmore said, "there is no law currently that allows an officer to arrest an individual for technically violating a monitoring system."

Huh? Violating pretrial release conditions means release gets revoked. If the corrections officer in charge of monitoring GPS tracking gets on-call pay, he should be in trouble for not responding to the early morning push notification he received.

[Shit Gary Johnson Says, Jr.]

That's hilarious. If we don't have ultra-specific laws to cover every eventuality, well, that's life, amirite? Score one for the murderer.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Since 1989, the county has used monitoring to alleviate chronic overcrowding at the jail. Whether people were convicted or waiting for trial, officials considered it a cheaper alternative.

When criminalizing every human activity starts costing more than it pays, it might be time for a change.

[Agammamon]

That's just bail. Though what *is* scary is that 'officials' consider it a 'cheaper alternative' to holding the accused until trial rather than what it *should* be - the default pre-trial option. Bail is something that should be granted *unless there's strong evidence that you won't show up for the trial*, not 'because its cheaper to us than having you rot in jail for six months'.

[The Fusionist]

It seems the guy was charged with murdering and robbing a cab driver in 2012.

"Padgett, who has faced murder and robbery charges for more than four years, made bond in 2015. But when he violated his conditions, authorities put him back in jail on a $350,000 bond, which he made [on September 30]."

If you're wondering why he was on bail, Article I(15) of the Tennessee Constitution says: "That all prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, when the proof is evident, or the presumption great."

So apparently this wasn't a capital prosecution.

[Shit Gary Johnson Says, Jr.]

It seems the guy was charged with murdering and robbing a cab driver in 2012.

Good thing he didn't get a ride from Uber or he would have been the one getting murdered!

[AlmightyJB]

He could have murdered an uber driver becauae I don't think that's a crime in some states.

[Princess Trigger]

He can plea self defense, since we know all Uber drivers are murderous, mass murdering rapists.

[AlmightyJB]

Brickbat 2: Postal carrier dumping mail into ditch.

http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/21/us.....o-a-ditch/

[The Fusionist]

Chattanooga may not have the resources to monitor alleged murderers who are out on bail, but it *does* have resources to carry out drug busts.

[euniceallison444]

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[ammythomas251]

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........ http://www.jobprofit9.com

[thomasammy45]

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........ http://www.jobprofit9.com

[ammyt97]

until I looked at the paycheck saying $4730 , I did not believe that...my... brother woz like actualy bringing in money part time from there computar. . there friend brother started doing this for less than 7 months and resently paid for the morgage on there home and bought a new Cadillac .......

........ http://www.jobprofit9.com