Monday, May 12, 2014
"Chicopee woman faces wiretapping charges after allegedly recording her own arrest"
"A Chicopee woman apparently got a little too loud and belligerent while drinking on Chestnut Street Sunday morning, and refused to cooperate with police when they asked her to quiet down. When she was about to be arrested, police say the woman activated the voice recording feature on her smart phone, hid it in her purse and surreptitiously recorded the entire arrest. Now she faces the unusual charge of unlawful wiretapping." (read more)
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I'm reminded of that scene in The Three Musketeers (1973) where the four musketeers are drinking in a tavern and some seemingly random drunk guy challenges one of them to a sword fight.
The musketeers ride off leaving their companion behind to fight his own battle.
One of the musketeers remarks, "And so now we are three."
Another musketeer is incredulous and he says something like, "But that belligerent fool was drunk!"
With a grave tone the other says, "He was sober enough when he came on guard."
Actually, the Michael York character doesn't become an official musketeer until the end of the movie but you get the idea.
She should just FOIA the NSA for their copy of the "private" conversation with the cops.
Maybe God is just the ultimate, inexhaustible recording device in the sky!
I have almost no respect for the police at this point.
There may be a few decent individuals amongst them, but the 95% are giving the rest a bad name.
How odd that recording would pose an issue for Public Servants.
You can be charged with anything. This is just the police being pissed off and throwing the proverbial book at her to see what sticks.
It's far too easy to break a law.
Why do the police have the presumption of privacy here?
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