Candy bar on the metro
Jul. 29th, 2004 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javasaurusThe news has been spouting that a woman was detained for 3 hours for eating a candy bar on the metro. Sheesh! talk about bad reporting!
Reading WTOP's article about the incident, the woman was eating the candy bar while entering the station, and a metro cop told her to finish the bar before entering. She plopped it into her mouth and put the wrapper into a trash can. That would have been the end of it. But she felt the need to tell the cop to "go and take care of some real crime" -- WTH? No wonder she was detained. You don't mouth off to a cop who is doing their job, unless you're looking for trouble. Yet WTOP is making her out to be the victim here.
Reading WTOP's article about the incident, the woman was eating the candy bar while entering the station, and a metro cop told her to finish the bar before entering. She plopped it into her mouth and put the wrapper into a trash can. That would have been the end of it. But she felt the need to tell the cop to "go and take care of some real crime" -- WTH? No wonder she was detained. You don't mouth off to a cop who is doing their job, unless you're looking for trouble. Yet WTOP is making her out to be the victim here.
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Re: yeah
Date: 2004-07-29 12:20 pm (UTC)As for the searching, the police dept. indicated that it's standard procedure to search anyone taken into custody regardless of the offence.