but yeah, this rent-a-government crap has got to go.
]]>I helped a friend get rid of more than a dozen old refrigerators, and the guy who did the hauling mentioned that he got top dollar for them because it was obvious they weren’t stolen and the old compressors have a lot more copper than the new ones.
Yes. junkies do weird things, and if they have a pattern, they don’t vary. It was really annoying to have to keep arresting them for the same thing.
In this case they didn’t load 8 to 15 tons of copper in one trip, so they were right about being able to get away with it for a while. The “security” had to be a joke.
]]>– Badtux the Meth-sniffin’ Penguin
]]>I reloaded when I lived in New York, and I can tell you that you have to jump through some hoops to buy smokeless powder, even a pound at a time. They required a concrete outbuilding to buy a bigger quantity, even though it is not actually an explosive.
Unless they have pictures of these guys drinking tea with Osama, I don’t see this going anywhere. Another embarrassing DoJ loss.
]]>– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
]]>This was larceny. That’s what you charge unless you are trying to lose the case. They’ll get a hung jury and mistrial if they go this way.
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