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Space Bar
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Chess players busted in Manhattan park
Cops bust seven men playing chess in upper Manhattan park
By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, JAMIE SCHRAM and DAN MANGAN
Last Updated: 11:28 AM, November 18, 2010
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Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up!
A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the "crime" of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids -- even though no youngsters were there.
"Is chess really something that should be considered a threat to the neighborhood?" Inwood resident and mom Joanne Johnson wrote Mayor Bloomberg, the City Council and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly after the raid.
"This incident is an embarrassment to the officers from the 34th Precinct who felt that it was necessary to use their badge and authority to issue such a random summons." |
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Fox
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Chess players busted in Manhattan park
Cops bust seven men playing chess in upper Manhattan park
By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, JAMIE SCHRAM and DAN MANGAN
Last Updated: 11:28 AM, November 18, 2010
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Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up!
A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the "crime" of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids -- even though no youngsters were there.
"Is chess really something that should be considered a threat to the neighborhood?" Inwood resident and mom Joanne Johnson wrote Mayor Bloomberg, the City Council and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly after the raid.
"This incident is an embarrassment to the officers from the 34th Precinct who felt that it was necessary to use their badge and authority to issue such a random summons." |
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There should be no areas off-limits to adults unaccompanied by children. That entire concept is nonsense. This is the kind of stupidity the sex-crimes witch hunt leads us to. It needs to stop; if I ever get arrested because I sit down and enjoy a read in a park, only to find out that it's a "no adults area," I might snap. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up!
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They really should've gone with a piece other than "bishop." |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
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Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up!
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They really should've gone with a piece other than "bishop." |
Or maybe they meant that the bishop should drop that "kiddy pawn"!
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| The USA is modern day Baylon..the great Satan...You step outside and you've done something wrong...gotta love the NWO depopulation freaks. Have you had your daily dose of lovely chemtrails, designed to slowly kill you off and/or reprogram your DNA? Scary stuff I've researched...look at Morgellon's disease. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| TSA producing porn of everyone and feeling them up qualifies for this thread. |
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Junior
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:47 am Post subject: Re: Criminalization of everyday life |
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Problem in UK is there is rampant public anti-social behaviour, and if you do anything about it then you become the criminal. |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:40 am Post subject: Re: Criminalization of everyday life |
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| Junior wrote: |
| bacasper wrote: |
| Are anyone's days entirely free of "offenses" that can get you arrested? |
Problem in UK is there is rampant public anti-social behaviour, and if you do anything about it then you become the criminal. |
Sounds like Australia. |
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goniff
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Australia?
well it's hardly surprising...
country was founded and populated by convicts! (except for the abos) |
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Chris.Quigley
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Location: Belfast. N Ireland
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I once went on a road trip from Vancouver Canada down the West Coast all the way to Mexico.
I was sleeping in the car in a parking lot of a local park. My friends were sleeping on the grass beside the car. The park was in a small town on the outskirts of San Diego.
The cops pulled up lights flashing. They had 3 vehicles and surrounded us.
They started screaming at us. I woke up in my underwear in my sleeping bag completed dazed.
Supposedly in the USA it is pretty serious to do stuff like that... In Canada the worst thing that would happen is they would politely ask you to leave and then come back in an hour to make sure you are gone.
After 30 minutes of explaining, them threating me with arrest and a night in jail, they finally let me go. I asked them, "if we cannot sleep here is there a rest stop near here?" They responded, "We don't care where you sleep as long as it isn't in San Diego." So we drove for 2 hours (it was around 3am) until we found a rest stop.
Is the USA out of control with the police? My experience... Yep... totally out of control.
They could have just asked us to leave... If it was that serious... |
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Reggie
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Chris,
As an American, I'm embarrassed about what happened to you. One thing to keep in mind as you travel through America, the police and many of our citizens have the mentality of "If it isn't an American flag, it might be a bomb." The police probably saw the sleeping bags and thought there was an al Qaeda plot involving bomb-filled sleeping bags. The paranoia really is that serious here in the USA. |
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Abe Scrap
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Newark cops detain honor student for filming them
NEWARK � Two Newark police officers illegally detained a promising city high school student and threatened to have her charged with obstruction of justice after she filmed them on a city bus last year, according to a federal lawsuit filed today in Newark.
According to the lawsuit, 17-year-old Khaliah Fitchette � an honors student at University High School who was recently accepted to several prestigious universities including Cornell � was forcefully grabbed by a Newark officer, handcuffed and illegally searched during the incident last March... |
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murmanjake
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Space Bar wrote: |
Chess players busted in Manhattan park
Cops bust seven men playing chess in upper Manhattan park
By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, JAMIE SCHRAM and DAN MANGAN
Last Updated: 11:28 AM, November 18, 2010
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Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up!
A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the "crime" of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids -- even though no youngsters were there.
"Is chess really something that should be considered a threat to the neighborhood?" Inwood resident and mom Joanne Johnson wrote Mayor Bloomberg, the City Council and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly after the raid.
"This incident is an embarrassment to the officers from the 34th Precinct who felt that it was necessary to use their badge and authority to issue such a random summons." |
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I heard that those chess games are often cover for drug deals.
Maybe that's what was going on behind the scenes... |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| goniff wrote: |
Australia?
well it's hardly surprising...
country was founded and populated by convicts! (except for the abos) |
Babo?
The local CBD council here are about to introduce a camera system to capture parking defaulters. The camera records vehicle licence numbers and identifies them at the parking location. So if I'm delayed 5 minutes lining up in an understaffed bank and am late back to my car by half a second, I'm automatically fined and my misdemeanour recorded on a council database. What concerns me almost as much is what use the digitally recorded information of my licence plate and my personal vehicle movements might be put to. I'm no New World Order conspiracy theorist but I am becomming increasingly paranoid about the possibility of an Orwellian scenario with so many mundane processes employing digital technology. We leave a very prominent trail with every transaction - information already being used by the relentless marketeers to target product sales opportunities. In more malevolent hands, this information can damage. And I'm surprised that I've felt so miffed by such uptake of the technology - being a staunch supporter of ICTs in education.
I'm troubled. |
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joelove
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| Very interesting stuff OP (I realize the thread is old). |
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