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I hope they do this with the understanding that it almost certainly ends with a visit to the jail.
by bandyaboot 3y ago
I hope they do this with the understanding that it almost certainly ends with a visit to the jail.
- prepend 3y agoActually, it won’t. These aren’t police boots. It doesn’t damage anyone’s property to remove the boot, just a key.
- bandyaboot 3y ago> These aren’t police boots. Ah, missed that part. Thanks.
- dharmab 3y agoIn some jurisdictions it is a crime to remove a private parking enforcement device without authorization. Check your local laws/ask a lawyer.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoThe article even explicitly says so: > “While owning a boot key is not illegal, here is what the public needs to know,” reads the department’s Facebook page. “If you use a Boot Key to modify, tamper, or disengage a booting device from a vehicle, you can be charged with: Criminal Trespass, and/or Theft of Services, and/orTheft by Taking, and/or Damage to Property 2nd Degree.”
- prepend 3y agoIt’s mealy language. “You can be charged…” These are private booters. No one has ever been charged. Atlanta police barely respond to real crime, much less this. It would be interesting to see what happens if the booter hires an off duty cop to charge the boot girls or write them a ticket. I expect it would not result in conviction, much less even prosecution. And the ticket would be on the boot girls, not the person who hires them. I think the risk would be if the cops were in on the racket or got some kind of bribe “dukes of hazard” style. But the boot industry doesn’t make enough money to pull local cops and politicians in.
- dharmab 3y agoCops have bigger fish to dry. A law is only as good as its enforcement.