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In reply to the discussion: If you have a secret compartment in your car -even empty - you could soon do 5 years in PA [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)19. What in hell are they thinking?
I think they want to fill their prisons, and this is their novel approach to do just that.
"Well, Herbert. Our prisons are empty. People are being too GOOD!"
"Well, let's make it illegal to wear shoes with secret compartments."
"Ooooh, I like it! Anyone wearing shoes can be searched, and even if we don't find anything, we'll put them in jail for five years just for THINKING about putting something in their shoes!"
"I love the way you think, Miss Harper!"
Pretty sick whatever their rationale.
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If you have a secret compartment in your car -even empty - you could soon do 5 years in PA [View all]
Tsiyu
May 2014
OP
Isn't this the state that had payoffs to judges to incarcerate kids for nonsense?
Tsiyu
May 2014
#10
Wait a minute! My grandmother's 1999 car which I am driving how has a compartment inside her glove
diabeticman
May 2014
#5
We live in Pennsylvania and unfortunately she passed... don't feel bad--but this really is getting
diabeticman
May 2014
#29
really all cars can fall into this catagory. how many arm rests double as storage? This is just
diabeticman
May 2014
#58
If you use the filter of "yourself" as the basis of how you see the world.
Half-Century Man
May 2014
#20
There are so many spaces on any given car that could be described as "secret compartments"...
MohRokTah
May 2014
#7
BTW, if the court ruled that the cops can search without a warrant in absence of consent,...
MohRokTah
May 2014
#9
This is a bill that won a committee vote, not yet a law. There is time to kill it.
Comrade Grumpy
May 2014
#34
According to the article, police are supposed to have to prove it's for nefarious purposes, but..
X_Digger
May 2014
#50
I am all in favor of breaking up and outlawing ALL law enforcement unions/
Dawson Leery
May 2014
#46
This won't pass Constutional muster at all. Its another waste of time and resources.
cleanhippie
May 2014
#49
The Federal Government needs a "Department of Have You Lost Your God Damned Mind?"
A HERETIC I AM
May 2014
#61
What if you tell the cop about it as soon as he pulls you over? No longer a secret.
yellowcanine
May 2014
#72
Is she at risk of arrest if the cops find the empty secret compartment
Jackpine Radical
May 2014
#79