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This is a pretty suspicious story, but if true: I would have called 911 and gotten "real" police there, and ask for charges for false imprisonment, battery, as
by rdl 13y ago
This is a pretty suspicious story, but if true:
I would have called 911 and gotten "real" police there, and ask for charges for false imprisonment, battery, assault. These were pretty clearly not real police. If they were representing themselves as police officers ("federal service" is pretty questionable), that's something local police would take very seriously, too.
Lucky they didn't encounter one of the presumably-reasonably-large cross section of tech people who are also libertarians and likely to be armed.
- tdfx 13y agoI did not find any point in his story where the author having a concealed weapon on his person would have improved his situation.
- rdl 13y agoAbsolutely (a hidden law degree or a second hidden camera, perhaps), but being in a dark room and someone reading for your head and grabbing stuff off of it is a fairly serious threat; it would be easily misinterpreted.