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Brickbats

Brickbat: Our Bad

Charles Oliver | 2.10.2017 4:00 AM

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Cops in Workington, England, blew up a "suspicious" car parked near a police station. They later found that other officers had parked the car there after helping its owner, who had become ill. Officials have apologized to the owner.

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  1. MSimon   8 years ago

    The apology was nice. A new car would be better.

    The City vs Country divide has been a feature of human politics for 5,000 years or more. Too bad we haven't figured it out yet.

    Two Ecologies
    A Thermodynamic Explanation Of Politics

    1. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   8 years ago

      Both of those links excellent.

  2. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    "The officers who dealt with this morning's incident did so with public safety in mind and followed the appropriate procedures in respect to an unoccupied suspicious vehicle.

    "The constabulary will review this incident and will take on board any learning."

    Procedures to the rescue! The country is peppered with CCTV. Learn to review recordings of how the suspicious (?) car found its way to your front door.

    1. Pompey:? Class Mothersmucker   8 years ago

      Why do that when there are pants to be shat?

    2. Rich   8 years ago

      review recordings of how the suspicious (?) car found its way to your front door.

      "There is no time! People's lives are at risk!"

      1. Princess Trigger   8 years ago

        I can hear the bomb ticking.
        tick-tick-tick
        Oh, that's the urine dripping down my leg.

  3. The Fusionist   8 years ago

    Local news.

    1. Bacon-Magic <3 Hayek   8 years ago

      It was close to Rotherham.

  4. Monty Crisco   8 years ago

    Seems a bit of an unmeasured response, no?

    'Where'd that car come from...?"
    "Dunno..."
    "BLOW IT UP!!!!!!"

    1. WTF   8 years ago

      The importance of not being seen.

  5. The Fusionist   8 years ago

    In case I'm not here for the morning links:

    Justice Department attorneys unprepared, seem to lack Google skills

    1. WTF   8 years ago

      Maybe because that is irrelevant as to whether or not the ban is legal.

      "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate," the 1952 law states.

      It doesn't say he needs to show the courts a demonstration of harm, or that the courts must find their entry is detrimental.

      1. Libertarian   8 years ago

        Nevertheless . . .

      2. Zeb   8 years ago

        Unless they want to argue that that law is unconstitutional, I don't know how they make the case against the EO. The president certainly has the power to do what he did under that law.

        I think the law gives the president powers that are too broad and open-ended, but I don't think that's a matter for the courts.

      3. Suthenboy   8 years ago

        The 9th circus ruled they way they did because TRUMP BAD. That is what their reasoning amounts to. They got their virtue signaling in and assured themselves of never getting a promotion.

        I don't remember anyone squawking when Obama did it. The SC will smack this down. This would set an incredibly bad precedent that the D's would sorely regret.

        1. dantheserene   8 years ago

          No bad precedent has ever come back to bite the Ds in the ass, ever. They can do whatever they want, at the moment they want to do it, without consequences.
          At least, their behavior suggests that they believe this to be true.

    2. commodious rebrands   8 years ago

      Only AM links are entered into evidence.

    3. Rich   8 years ago

      "You're from the Department of Justice, if I understand correctly?"

      "Yes."

      "So you're aware of law enforcement. How many arrests have there been of foreign nationals for those seven countries since 9/11?"

      "Your honor, I don't have that information. I'm from the civil division, if that helps get me off the hook."

      "More precisely, from the Ministry of Silly Walks."

      1. UnCivilServant   8 years ago

        "Your honor, the fact that hundreds of such arrests have taken place is immaterial to the presidents authority under law to make a determination against permitting entry."

        1. Suthenboy   8 years ago

          Exactly. The court wasn't questioning the president's power to enact the ban, they were questioning the wisdom of it. Presidential power may be under the court's jurisdiction to review but second guessing his wisdom is not. They were wildly overreaching here.

          1. Rich   8 years ago

            Yep.

            And when SCOTUS finds for Trump, all these so-called "Constitutional scholars" should be disbarred.

            1. WTF   8 years ago

              Unless Gorsuch is confirmed unusually quickly, the current court is likely to deadlock 4 to 4, allowing the 9th circuit's decision to stand.

          2. dantheserene   8 years ago

            S-
            The 9th has been weird since I first started paying attention to such things in the late eighties. It must be something in the water.

  6. DJF   8 years ago

    I blame Trump and Putin

    I submit this as part of my application to be hired at the NYT, Washington Post, MSNBC. Anyone who disagrees, I will punch them in the face since they are a NAZI.

  7. Longtobefree   8 years ago

    First project for the infrastructure spending; move the ninth circuit courthouse to Butte Montana, and only hold sessions in December and January. (but there is not enough infrastructure budget for heating)

  8. Longtobefree   8 years ago

    OOPS! Wrong window - - - -

  9. AlmightyJB   8 years ago

    That wasn't overreacting at all.

  10. Princess Trigger   8 years ago

    Blowd it up good.

    1. dantheserene   8 years ago

      That car will never be involved in a hit and run or an armed robbery or a DUI. So who are the heroes now?

  11. Vapourwear   8 years ago

    I wonder what OS the bomb robot was usin.

    1. Zeb   8 years ago

      Vista.

    2. Bacon-Magic <3 Hayek   8 years ago

      The same one the Samsung Galaxy S7 uses.

      1. Careless   8 years ago

        failed on a couple of levels here...

  12. Robert   8 years ago

    How is such a controlled explosion done? Isn't there a danger that if there's a bomb inside, it'll be hurled elsewhere by the explosion?

    No indication in the story of what made the vehicle suspicious. Maybe the communication error mentioned in the article was that one cop said to another something about leaving a vehicle, and the other one interpolated the word "suspicious".

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