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Newswire: ...engineer arrested. Something weird here or not?
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<p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">Here's what's wrong:</font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">It's a classic case of "<strong>Cops Gone Wild</strong>". These guys storm in and think they have some sort of jurisdiction and they know (or should well know) they are on private property. It would be no different if they came into a factory or office building. And they should know the license, while convenient for identification purposes, is not a government issued ID card. We don't have that yet.</font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">This am I passed a train that had just hit a trespassing vacant private auto left on the tracks. I heard the conductor relay the info to the engineer that the local Barney Fyfe wanted the engineer's driver's license, to which he is not, and should <strong><em>know</em></strong> he is not entitled. That's only his (the cop's) if there has been a highway driving infraction.</font></p><p>They tell us to comply with their lawful requests, but they just don't know where their power ends. (They don't know there is a legal limit to their police power and I think they don't like that.)</p><p> They can't believe someone would dare say no, you may not have such and such.</p>
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