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Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
Naughty language in this article.

If it is true, is it being followed up on?
 
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
dunno . . . but the girl in the ad looks like she has a black eye--what a stupid effect!
 
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
*snort*

I would've thought you would stick up for one of your fellow long-haired hippy friends. [Smile]
 
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
Oh, wait. The ad on top of the web page. :lol:

I really did think you were talking about the guy's picture. Doh.
 
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
[Razz]
 
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
*sigh* And yet, when I was being harassed and sworn at and threatened by some teenagers who were illegally smoking on the train because I asked them not to do it around me (asthmatic) and my infant daughter, and they actually followed me off the train and onto another one, there wasn't a DART cop in sight.
 
Posted by Amanecer (Member # 4068) on :
 
Hmmm, I don't know anything about this particular incident. However, the Dallas Observer is not known for its quality reporting. It's a free newspaper that hires amateur reporters. The reporters sensationalize every story in order to build a name for themselves. Sometimes it's a nice counterbalance to the major papers over here, but I tend to be somewhat skeptical of their stories.
 
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
 
quote:
from the article:
Lyon couldn't afford to bond out of jail. After 11 days, a public defender told him the only way she could get him out was for him to enter a no-contest--in other words, guilty--plea on the charges against him. He did it.

I read an essay a couple weeks ago that argued that the prevalence of plea-bargains is destroying our legal system, because the people who are guilty merely need to bargain and they'll be let out of jail. Innocent people cannot plea-bargain without lying.

And nobody should ever go to jail just for jaywalking.
 


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