Suit: Detained woman forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh

[Ian David]

Suit: Detained woman forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh

Talk about your Monday from hell. Not only did Bridgett Nickerson Boyd's car break down on her way to work, but when she pulled over to the side of the freeway, a sheriff's deputy named Mark Goad pulled behind her, wrote her a ticket for driving on the shoulder, decided to arrest her, followed her to the hospital when her suddenly racing heart prompted a call to paramedics, then took her into custody again after she was treated by doctors and finally drove her to jail.

To make matters worse, Boyd claims in a lawsuit that the handcuffs were put on her wrists painfully tight and that she was forced to listen to conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh "make derogatory comments about black people" all the way to the jail. Boyd is African-American.

Because of the incident, which occurred on Oct. 4, 2010, Boyd filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Goad and Harris County alleging defamation, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, assault and battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

"Deputy Goad was aware that Boyd had not committed a crime and her arrest was without probable cause," according to the lawsuit filed in Houston.

More:
http://www.chron.com/default/article/Suit-Detained-woman-forced-to-listen-to-Rush-2204356.php

[Cid_B]

1. Sigh.... Really?

:eyes:

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Yes. Really.

If all that crap happened to ME in one morning, I believe the worst of it would be having to listen to the Fat Bastard. That's ample ground for 'emotional distress' in itself -

but of course the suit was for the false arrest, the emotional distress of being arrested and then having to go the hospital for a panic attack, and the very real betrayal of trust at being put in handcuffs by the guy she thought was going to help her as her car crapped out on her.

Got a problem with that?

[Cid_B]

13. Dunno about the rest and frankly I'm not that interested...

... but as far as emotional distress for having to listen to a radio program? It makes her look petty and the lawsuit frivolous.

[HopeHoops]

2. Reminds me of Woody Allen in "Sleeper" with the tape of Howard Cosell

"We believe this was some form of torture method..."

"Yeah, that's pretty much what it was."

[barbtries]

4. i thought it was nixon

love that movie

[HopeHoops]

6. I'm pretty sure it was Cosell.

On Edit: Not that there's much of a difference. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[barbtries]

11. true

lol

[ZombieHorde]

3. Seems like 99% of the cops give the rest a bad name. nt

[Initech]

7. Ugh... I'd pissed if I was forced to listen to the bloated gasbag too!

[Blue Owl]

8. Perhaps the most hideous torture of all

n/t

[MADem]

9. My heart goes out to the hard-working taxpayers of Houston.

Some of their hard-earned money that they paid into the city coffers will go to paying off the settlement to this woman. They're also paying the salary of a nitwit cop.

And this is a federal lawsuit--it'll be harder to sweep this under the carpet.

[Kalidurga]

10. arrest and torture for a car breaking down...

well at least she is still alive. I hope she gets a lot of money. Perhaps she could sue Rush as well, probably not, but his words were the ones that were torturous.

[joeybee12]

12. A week ago I might have said, pfffttt...now, after seeing cops in NY

I bet what the woman is saying is 100% correct.