Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Was this guy violating the exotic car code of conduct?

[Adam Green (FlatCrank]

Perhaps the cop was hobbling.  Perhaps he was feigning injury to excuse his behavior.  It's moot.  Even if his foot was severed at the ankle and he acted out the Black Knight "flesh wound" scene from Monty Python, his injury was self-inflicted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690

Hit by the car?  You mean he leaned against the mirror as the driver inched the car forward?

Adam

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Steven Noble <snoble [at] sonn.com> wrote:

I think you are over-reacting.  You can see the cop moves in front of the car to block the guy from leaving.  The guy had two choices, wait until the cop moved, or try to drive through the cop.  He tried to drive through the cop.  I don't think the cop expected the guy to actually drive through him.

You see in the video the cop is hobbling, I don't think anyone in their right mind would purposely get their foot run over (and $$/workers comp is not in their right mind), if the cop was looking for an excuse he was already hit by the car before his foot was run over.

Whether or not the cop was right to block the driver, the driver had no right to drive into the cop, no more then he would have the right to drive into a non-cop.  It's vehicular assault (IANAL) from the drivers side and possibly illegal detention (IANAL) from the cops side.. but I assume the cop had the right to detain him.

On Aug 6, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Adam Green <FlatCrank [at] gmail.com> wrote:
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> So the cop puts his foot under the front tire after the vehicle is moving and uses this lie as the excuse to assault the person in the car.  Why can't the cop just write up the ticket and add the offense of leaving and disobeying the instructions to wait?  Is there even a law that empowers the cop to compel the driver to wait for the paperwork?  Is there a law that empowers the cop to escalate a parking ticket into a violent assault?
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> The dim wit kid driving the status symbol does not have my sympathy -- he was wrong to park illegally, wrong to not behave with simple courtesy and he should have just waited politely to take the ticket and thank the cop for doing a useful job of enforcing the law.  But kids have no brains -- biologically they don't have a fully developed prefrontal cortex (reasoning, consequences, accountability) until the human body is 22 to 25 years old.  And he's a young male showing off to a female.  Another recipe for disaster when mixed with the catalyst of a car ... : )
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> It's common knowledge that US police are violent thugs ready to escalate any confrontation to life and death.  So the kid was risking his life or at least a face full of mace and a taser to the nuts.  Now he faces months of time wasted in his defense, in avoiding a felony conviction, in fighting the establishment that protects the police from their own criminality.  What's the point?
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> The real tragedy here is the cop with the predilection to create confrontation, to force the issue, to swing into violent assault -- the situation is patently a matter of an ass clown kid with a rich family, does the cop really "protect and serve" by assaulting this kid over a parking ticket?