Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1115 Editor's Choice: 9
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kickstarts
[Read the article: Anti-Obama ad a winner for McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look it up, it's the law. Or better, ask an ADA. NC is one of 2 states that has no juvenile court system. Period. As for 911 visits to your home, that is SOP by any officer in any jurisdiction in Wake and Johnson county under the theory that the cops are tired of taking shit about wives and husbands killing each other in domestic disputes....period.
And yes, speeding over 100mph in NC is an F felony usually. In Wake county magistrates like to slam that one with bail in excess of $30,000 or about 3x the bail typically incurred by a DUI car vs bike or pedestrian severe injury collision.
And yes constructive possession is used by NC cops to the highest level of any charge possible so, if you're in a car and one person is caught with a higher schedule controlled substance then it's the ADA 'privilege' to charge everyone with constructive possession equally. Moreover the drug law enforcement is such that having weed and an UNopened box of ziplock bags somewhere in your possession, home, car, etc is evidence of intent to sell and distribute.
And yes, any crime charged on state owned property carries with it an automatic 50% increase in penalty.
Oddly though gun crimes are pretty slack. On one of my many trips down to the Salisbury st county courthouse I watched as probation violators were given additional probation and no more, for being caught in a stolen car, with a STOLEN GUN. No drugs were involved.
And yes, we commonly call any charge no one really understands as 'Driving while Mexican'. You will find that often the police simply write up charges that don't exist in the criminal statute at all. They are 100% made up. But, the guy is clearly guilty of something so it's D.W.M. The judge throws it out and everyone gets a day in court sitting on their ass.
Also we're an alienation of affection law state, which like the other six states that have it, provide a way to civilly sue your ex spouse's new boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife if you can demonstrate they knew the person before you were divorced. It is routinely successful and damages are quite extraordinary - several hundred thousand dollars on average.
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It's an illegal Honduran housekeeper
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or an angry wife, whichever.
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Yes women are funny
[Read the article: Feminism is the new funny]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now run along and make me a sandwich, hon.
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How many people honestly still have a fear of flying
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to admit that about 8 years ago I wound up sitting next to a good old hillbilly who freely admitted he had never been on a plane before. But he had one of those fake binocular flasks and was sipping brown liquor. So he wasn't askaird atall. And in 96 I sat next to a Dutch girl who pouded down a grubby fist of pills and passed out for the whole ride from CDG to JFK. Her hair was dirty. And on the other side of me, I do believe the old guy might have died, or coughed up a lung or something. And the kid infront of me was autistic and banged his head on the seat and chirped and made odd noises as we flew into a 100kt headwind and the trip took 11 1/2 hours. But no one was afraid. If I could have got my hands on a gun they would have been afraid as we plummeted into the North Atlantic at Mach 1.
But really, are there still people who are afraid to fly?
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What? no jittery hand held cell phone camera?
[Read the article: "Deception"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No underlit over contrasted Parkinson's disease Blair Witch film school horseshit? No out of focus wrong depth of field solarized too blue too orange crap from "Traffic"? Cmon you're not even trying if you can't push that stupid 'immediacy' shit in our faces. Even the tools that grind out Friday Night Lights like burritos every week can do that.
Seriously, that is killing movies. Killing them goddamn dead. I'm not paying 11 bucks to see that you've taken a scene and turned it into a constantly moving picture of the fucking floor.