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"Kidnapping" basically allows you to legally SWAT someone as long as you're in earshot of their house. Some years back a friend of mine had a SWAT team show up

"Kidnapping" basically allows you to legally SWAT someone as long as you're in earshot of their house. Some years back a friend of mine had a SWAT team show up because someone "heard a girl screaming"; when he refused to answer the door, they flashbanged his apartment and busted in (then he was evicted because of a clause that said your landlord can kick you out for being merely suspected of a crime).

pyuser583 4y ago
Wow. That’s nuts.
- amelius 4y ago
  The law is like a piece of really stinkingly bad code. There's even a StackOverflow for law: https://law.stackexchange.com/ https://law.stackexchange.com/ perhaps officials should check it out some time.
scruple 4y ago
I had something similar happen to me once. The police claimed to have seen a "girl in distress" when they knocked on the door of a house party and spoke to the host. They came back 15 minutes later with an EMT and forced entry. They arrested only me (paraphernalia and possession charges -- though none of it was actually mine). I was released that night on my own recognizance, they kept my clothing "as evidence," and I had to walk to a friends (3/4 of a mile) wearing only my boxers in December. The charges were later dropped. I was targeted that night because the sergeant on duty had a real thing against my older brother (who was, admittedly, a hell raiser), but my brother had left town a couple of years earlier after joining the Army and so he directed his bullshit at me. This was back in the '90s in a small rural area in Ohio. A place very similar to where Afroman lives today, in fact only 2 counties away.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  I wonder if the ‘2 counties away’ makes it the same county as that which audits the botched raid in the article.
  - scruple 4y ago
    What county audited the Adams County Sheriff? I've only seen Hamilton County and Adams County pop up in this story. edit/ Oh, I see. It was Clermont County. Nope, not it. I don't want to place my younger self with pinpoint accuracy here but I grew up in southern/southeastern Ohio.
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      Sorry, I didn’t think of that aspect. It would have been an interesting aside, but it wasn’t to be.

pyuser583 4y ago

Wow. That’s nuts.

amelius 4y ago
The law is like a piece of really stinkingly bad code. There's even a StackOverflow for law: https://law.stackexchange.com/ https://law.stackexchange.com/ perhaps officials should check it out some time.

scruple 4y ago

I had something similar happen to me once. The police claimed to have seen a "girl in distress" when they knocked on the door of a house party and spoke to the host. They came back 15 minutes later with an EMT and forced entry. They arrested only me (paraphernalia and possession charges -- though none of it was actually mine). I was released that night on my own recognizance, they kept my clothing "as evidence," and I had to walk to a friends (3/4 of a mile) wearing only my boxers in December. The charges were later dropped. I was targeted that night because the sergeant on duty had a real thing against my older brother (who was, admittedly, a hell raiser), but my brother had left town a couple of years earlier after joining the Army and so he directed his bullshit at me. This was back in the '90s in a small rural area in Ohio. A place very similar to where Afroman lives today, in fact only 2 counties away.

lostlogin 4y ago
I wonder if the ‘2 counties away’ makes it the same county as that which audits the botched raid in the article.
- scruple 4y ago
  What county audited the Adams County Sheriff? I've only seen Hamilton County and Adams County pop up in this story. edit/ Oh, I see. It was Clermont County. Nope, not it. I don't want to place my younger self with pinpoint accuracy here but I grew up in southern/southeastern Ohio.
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    Sorry, I didn’t think of that aspect. It would have been an interesting aside, but it wasn’t to be.