Police Swipe Man's Xbox

[hcheung]

Sheriff’s deputies swiped a man’s Xbox and games after a traffic stop.

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[nebun]

Government work at it's finest, lol. Christmas is comming

 

[mtyermom]

That's messed up. They had no probable cause to confiscate his console + games. Then he shows up with receipt and box and surprise surprise, no one can find it.

 

[hellwig]

Is this guy even sure they were police? Did he get their badge numbers? I doubt police can confiscate anything that isn't illegal to possess or under dispute (i.e. no one claimed these particular guys stole their XBox). My guess is some policeman's nephew is getting a used XBox with 8 games for Christmas.

We like to think of civil servants and public defenders as morally right and just people, but a similar report a few weeks back that a TSA agent had stolen and sold thousands of dollars worth of electronic equipment out of peoples luggage reminds us that these people are still human.

 

[ciscoopa]

Sad, but true. And while everyone can go on about how it's a tiny minority, never happens, this is fake, and whatever...I know that things like this most certaintly do happen. Usually things just get swept under the rug - if you go to the police station and are stonewalled like this kid most of the time people give up. Take 4th of july for example. Cops confiscate TONS of fireworks. Do you honestly believe that all the smaller confiscations which a person is let off with 'a warning' go to the evidence locker? Evidence for what? A warning? Nope, that goes to putting on a very nice display for some officer's 4th of july party. Again for the skeptics - I have BEEN to such a part held by someone considered to be a "good cop".

Nothing can surprize me out of this one (cops lying or the kid) but if there's any truth to it I sincerely hope that cop is 1) fired 2) stripped of all job perks or residual pay that they legally can 3) charged with armed robery 4) convicted of a felony and hopefuly jailed. It's a blatant abuse of power in the worst way and it happens MUCH more often than the pro-police supporters want you to believe.

 

[antilycus]

patriot act killed our cival rights. They can now search without a warrant and confiscate without a warrant as well. Of course another dirty cop thinking that he is better the criminals, when he himself/herself is just as bad.

 

[lamorpa]

Hey Humphrey, anyways ain't no werd. Where'dya get you're grammer?

(and by the way, NeBun, Christmas is not comm[unicat]ing with anyone (it is a holiday), but watch out, Christams is coming.)

 

[gm0n3y]

This reminds me of my old hockey coach. He was a cop and around halloween he used to give a bunch of the kids on our hockey team fireworks so that we'd hang out with his kid (who had no friends). I also remember getting a couple of pellet guns too. Oh yeah, and he used to bring his radar gun to practice to clock our shots and see how fast we could skate.

 

[miltoxbeyond]

I want to borrow one of their radar guns to see how fast I can sleep

 

[hairycat101]

Um... the police can't confiscate that without a warrant or if it is not under dispute. They also, can't force you to prove you paid for it in order to keep it. I am typing on a keyboard that I bough, but I know there is no way I would be able to find the receipt.

 

[evilshuriken]

You lie hairy cat, you are a thieving little fiend and you know it!
I'm gonna have to confiscate that keyboard, you can get it back when you find your receipt.

 

[gm0n3y]

I've been interrogated by police for even less reason than those kids. One time I was driving down in Washington (I live just over the border in Canada), it was 3am on a Tuesday. I was going pretty much exactly the speed limit when a cop pulls me over. His reason was, I quote, "'cause you got a BC plate". He asks why I'm driving around at 3am, so I tell him that my buddy and I were just out driving for fun (we were 17 and bored). He says that he doesn't believe us and that because we're from BC, and its the middle of the night, that we must be smuggling drugs over the border. So he calls in backup and says he's gonna search my car. Ok, nothing I can do, I consent (he seemed surprised that I did). He and his backup spend about 20 minutes tearing apart my car, pulling out everything from my trunk, including the liner and spare. Oh, did I mention it was snowing pretty heavily and I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Of course they find nothing and we have to put everything back in the car. Then the cop tells us that he still thinks we're drug smugglers and that he'll be watching us. He then follows us out of town for about 15 minutes before turning back.

I have had the worst experiences with American cops, I think they just don't like foreigners. Actually, American border guards are even worse. I hope Canadian law enforcement treats our American neighbours better than that.

 

[afrobacon]

I had this happen to me two years ago; me and a couple buddies were lighting off fireworks a few weeks before 4th of July only to be visited by police. They confiscated them because they were illegal in the state. Well, coincidentally the pig lived down the road from one of us and was lighting off those same fireworks a week later.

...we stole what he didn't light off back when he went back out on patrol the next day... shhh

 

[Guest]

In my college dorm I had the police called on me for a noise complaint. When they showed up and I talked to them at the door they were able to see my computer screen, which had an open playlist in Winamp, and a spindle of burned CDs. This led them to claim that I was engaging in copyright infringement and they searched my room and confiscated my computer.

Even though I never was charged with anything, subsequent visits to the police station to attempt to retrieve my computer met heavy resistance at all levels of the police station and I received the run-around for about 5 months ("go talk to the prosecuting attorney about it", "you have to wait for the Lieutenant to give you a call and he's not around right now", etc.)

Eventually I had to get an attorney involved and the police finally agreed to give me the computer back the next day after they retrieved it from a deputy's house.

Why was it at a deputy's house and not in the evidence locker? I have no idea. I finally got it back after about 6 months, with my hard drives wiped.

Beware the police!

 

[fuser]

If you don't know your rights then you're bound to lose them.

 

[spuddyt]

we have the opposite in britain - the police's hands are so tied by legislation that they can do ah heck all to prevent law breaking

 

[gm0n3y]

I'd rather have a crippled police force than one that overstretches its authority. Sad that I trust criminals over police, but who do you complain to when the cops steal from you?

 

[Guest]

There is enough reasonable suspicion to confiscate the property due to the number of burglaries in the area and the fact that x360 are one of this items frequently stolen. There is another more in-depth article that includes quotes from the police stating the item had not been transported to evidence room yet and that the driver had been in contact with a supervisor and they have a meeting set up for friday to return the xbox. Confiscating property does not equal a theft and its not like the guy will never get it back, if the police can not locate a victim or be able to show it is stolen then they will return it within 30 days.

 

[gm0n3y]

I generally like the whole "presumed innocent until proven guilty" idea. It would be one thing if the trunk also contained burglary equipment or anything that would lead them to think that a carload of stoned teens are stealing people's xboxes. To me the situation doesn't seem like it warranted the seizure of the xbox. What would have happened if the xbox wasn't reported stolen and the kid didn't keep his receipt? They would just assume that it was stolen and not reported?

 

[NuclearShadow]

The police can be just as bad as the criminals if you ask me. I've never in my life have ever had a positive experience with the police and I happen to have no record.

The worst thing they ever did to me was when I was just a kid in elementary school my brother was accused of a very serious crime and they came to my school and took me out of my class to question me about it. The detective then asked a trick question and either way that I answered would have been against my brother. (who never did the crime and this was proven and someone else was charged later) Thankfully the trick didn't work as I paid absolute attention and answered the questions in my head before answering to the detective. This caused me to realize both answers didn't sound right and after a minute of giving no answer he admitted it was a trick question to me and called me a "bright kid" and left immediately after. What the hell kind of detective uses trick questions on children?

The only reason why I call that the worst is because I was a child. At least the rest of the shit they did later on I was older.

Also I think this is worth sharing. My father's best friend was a cop before he died (the friend not my father) my brother (same one as above) once showed interest in becoming a police officer. My fathers friend encouraged him and finished with something in the lines of "If you ever go against another cop next time you need backup it won't come" He said this with a serious face and in a serious manner and my brother never mentioned wanting to be a police officer ever again.