Woman Arrested, Cuffed for Eating Candy

[EagleKeeper]

If you choose to challenge the authority, you could get bit. She pushed the issue, troubled then followed

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Thraxen

She mouthed off to the guy and it gave him reason to pursue the issue. She acted like a 12 year old. Detained for 3 hours ? No... but she will have learned her lesson.

Oh please... so what if she mouthed off? She did as asked. It's a stupid law to be arresting people over.

You like mouthing off to cops ? I don't think "so what" applies.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: rh71
She mouthed off to the guy and it gave him reason to pursue the issue. She acted like a 12 year old. Detained for 3 hours ? No... but she will have learned her lesson.

He acted like a 12 year old as well. I expect officers who are entrusted with the usage of deadly force to be a little more mature and sensible.

 

[Wuffsunie]

"Don't you have some other crimes you have to take care of?" Willett said she told the officer

That explains why she was arrested. The eating had nothing to do with it.

I can't believe that that actually happens. How the hell did things ever get to the point where this was thought necessary?

 

[Dacalo]

Absolutely ridiculous....

 

[Thraxen]

Harrassed ? How ? Point it out.

I think being questioned by police over eating a candy bar is harassment. It's stupid. She then finished before entering the station and the officer continued to follow her. More harassment.

ou like mouthing off to cops ? I don't think "so what" applies.

It sure as hell does. A police officer should be able to take a little mouthing without resorting to abusing their power.

 

[dmcowen674]

Oh the Noessssss, incoming Snackbars and French Fries!!!

 

[rh71]

*nvm*

 

[Wuffsunie]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Oh the Noessssss, incoming Snackbars and French Fries!!!

That's the DC area you're talking about. Those are Freedom Fries!

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Nail
Either way, I wonder if she's cute.

Doubtful, policemen let good looking women get away with murder.

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: gigapet

Originally posted by: rh71
She mouthed off to the guy and it gave him reason to pursue the issue. She acted like a 12 year old. Detained for 3 hours ? No... but she will have learned her lesson.

she was being harassed and she reacted as any other person would who was being harassed by another....the person harassing her just happened to have a gun and the ability to take away her freedom.

Harrassed ? How ? Point it out. All he did was warn her to finish it (which she did) and she mouthed off to him after that. The guy was upholding the law. Blame the lawmakers, not the cop.

You're a tard, she mouthed off AFTER being harassed, the cop was following her etc. I'm sure she felt uneasy.

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: Amused
This happened to a teenage girl a year or so ago.

It's rather pathetic.

When the heck did you become a Elite member? Congrats.

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: Nail
Either way, I wonder if she's cute.

Doubtful, policemen let good looking women get away with murder.

Which is why I as a male have to pay so much more for car insurance.

Err... I would if I didn't have my little scam going on.

 

[bradruth]

Originally posted by: rh71
Blame the lawmakers, not the cop.

:thumbsup:

Originally posted by: Gurck
Doubtful, policemen let good looking women get away with murder.

You'd be suprised how many cops give breaks to ugly women & be a real hardass to attractive women. Think of it as karma balancing out a little.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Wow.

Maced in a theater. Arrested for eating the final bite of a candy bar in the subway.

WTF is wrong with the authorities?

The mace in the theatre lobby, given the reports I've heard to this point, appears to have been justified. This, OTOH, is a result of bureaucrats (and police) with too much time on their hands.

 

[Achtung]

If she had stopped eating, it would have been the end of it

Uh, she did stop... great to know we've got such geniuses working as police chiefs...

 

[anonmouseuser]

Maybe she's a terrorist. :roll:

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: anonmouseuser
Maybe she's a terrorist. :roll:

terrorists can take these ideas since you don't want situations like this so closely policed. Let's stick some C4 in a candy bar...

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Wuffsunie

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Oh the Noessssss, incoming Snackbars and French Fries!!!

That's the DC area you're talking about. Those are Freedom Fries!

No, we are taking about DC off Capitol Hill. Those are "Crack Fries".

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: anonmouseuser
Maybe she's a terrorist. :roll:

terrorists can take these ideas since you don't want situations like this so closely policed. Let's stick some C4 in a candy bar...

Oh, so you're one of those people.
Don't you understand that if we can't eat candy bars in our own train stations, the terrorists have already won?

 

[vood0g]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Wow.

Maced in a theater. Arrested for eating the final bite of a candy bar in the subway.

WTF is wrong with the authorities?

this situation is completely different than the one where the officer maced those two jacka$$ess in the theatre. the cop here was being abusive where as the cop in the movie theatre was justified.

 

[dmcowen674]

This is on the front page of the News and I'm sure may even upsurp the DNC tonight.

She'll be on Leno, Letterman, etc too.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: conjur
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040729/ap_on_fe_st/candy_bar_arrest_1

WASHINGTON - A government scientist finishing a candy bar on her way into a subway station where eating is prohibited was arrested, handcuffed and detained for three hours by transit police.

Stephanie Willett said she was eating a PayDay bar on an escalator descending into a station July 16 when an officer warned her to finish it before entering the station. Both Willett and police agree that she nodded and put the last bit into her mouth before throwing the wrapper into a trash can.

Willett, a 45-year-old Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites) scientist, told radio station WTOP that the officer then followed her into the station, one of several in downtown Washington.

"Don't you have some other crimes you have to take care of?" Willett said she told the officer.

Washington has been under heightened security because of the continuing threat of terrorism. And last week, police declared a citywide crime emergency over rising juvenile crime.

The transit police officer asked for Willett's identification, but Willett kept walking. She said she was then frisked and handcuffed.

"If she had stopped eating, it would have been the end of it and if she had just stopped for the issuance of a citation, she never would have been locked up," Transit Police Chief Polly Hanson said Thursday.

Metrorail has been criticized in the past for heavy-handed enforcement of the eating ban. In 2000, a police officer handcuffed a 12-year-old girl for eating a french fry on a subway platform.

In 2002, one of their officers ticketed a wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy patient for cursing when he was unable to find a working elevator to leave a station. Unflattering publicity eventually led the police to void the ticket.

Willett was the second person arrested this year for eating or drinking, Hanson said. In addition, police have issued 58 tickets and given more than 300 written warnings.

Wow...great way to spend taxpayer dollars.

:roll:

But imagine all the revenue they're generating, it's a net gain.

 

[yukichigai]

Y'know, when I was in DC the law enforcement officials were courteous, friendly and helpful. Except for the Metro cops. My little brother and I were running down a hill to a Metro station, and as we stopped for a traffic signal a Metro cop behind a barricade (DC blocked off a bunch of roads to landmarks and such after 9/11) yells at us, "hey, stop running, or next time it won't be a warning!" Yes, because it's not as though 1) there's no law that says we can't run, and 2) there's no possibility we were in a f%$#ing hurry. Ass.

 

[Pocatello]

Those cops got nothing to do, so they so her who's boss.