Business must be slow in the PA police dept.
From Talkleft:
The police in Scranton, PA apparently have so little crime to address that they've taken to citing people who use bad language in their own homes.
"It doesn't make any sense. I was in my house. It's not like I was outside or drunk," [Dawn] Herb told The Times-Tribune of Scranton. "The toilet was overflowing and leaking down into the kitchen and I was yelling (for my daughter) to get the mop." Herb does not recall exactly what she said, but she admitted letting more than a few bad words fly near an open bathroom window Thursday night.
Mary Catherine Roper, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia, took issue with the citation. "You can't prosecute somebody for swearing at a cop or a toilet," she said.
Would the police have bothered with this if the neighbor who called to complain hadn't been an off-duty cop?
Would the police have bothered with this if the neighbor who called to complain hadn't been an off-duty cop?
If PA have some law about swearing in a person's home or at a toilet, I wonder if whining is added as a law?
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Big Brother is watching you. Now I've heard the language that offficers use are they going to give themselves citations? Let's hope they don't have a visit by any of the Cheney family all of them have dirty mouths. I wonder would the PA law apply to Brother Dick Cheney?
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