On Monday, July 1, 2013 3:10:54 PM UTC-5, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 7/1/13 3:48 PM, Califbill wrote:

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On 6/30/2013 4:09 PM, Califbill wrote:

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On 6/29/2013 11:21 AM, Eisboch wrote:





"F.O.A.D." wrote in message

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....live in a state run by a bat**** crazy governor and attorney

general...





Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student



Posted: Thursday, June 27, 2013 10:37 pm



When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on

University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates

panicked.



That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in the

Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Her initial offense? Walking to

her car with bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream just purchased

from the Harris Teeter in the Barracks Road Shopping Center for a

sorority benefit fundraiser.



A group of state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents clad in plainclothes

approached her, suspecting the blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water to

be a 12-pack of beer. Police say one of the agents jumped on the hood of

her car. She says one drew a gun. Unsure of who they were, Daly tried to

flee the darkened parking lot.



"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but

we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform,"

she recalled Thursday in a written account of the April 11 incident..



"I couldn't put my windows down unless I started my car, and when I

started my car they began yelling to not move the car, not to start the

car. They began trying to break the windows. My roommates and I were ....

terrified," Daly stated.



Charlottesville Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Chapman read Daly's account

and said it was factually consistent.



Prosecutors say she apologized profusely when she realized who the

agents were. But that wasn't good enough for ABC agents, who charged her

with three felonies. Prosecutors withdrew those charges Thursday in

Charlottesville General District Court, but Daly still can't understand

why she sat in jail.





"This has been an extremely trying experience," she wrote. "It is

something to this day I cannot understand or believe has come to this

point."



A gents at ABC's regional office in Staunton deferred to the agency's

public affairs office in Richmond. Spokeswoman Carol Mawyer would not

provide details of the arrest or ABC's investigative procedures, except

to say that all agents wear plainclothes and carry metal badges.



Agents charged Daly with two counts of assaulting a law enforcement

officer and one count of eluding police, all Class 6 felonies carrying a

maximum penalty of five years in prison and $2,500 in fines per offense.



Chapman said he'd never encountered a situation like this in his 34

years of experience.



"It wouldn't be the right thing to do to prosecute this," he said,

noting that no one was hurt during the exchange, which took place around

10:15 p.m.



Daly incurred the assault charges when she "grazed" two agents with her

SUV, according to court records. She drove the SUV past the agents after

her front-seat passenger, in a panic, yelled at Daly to "go, go, go" and

climbed into the rear of the vehicle to gain space from the men on her

side of the car, the records state.



The woman was on edge after spending the night listening to stories from

dozens of sexual assault survivors at an annual "Take Back the Night"

vigil on Grounds, said Daly's defense attorney, Francis Lawrence.



The women dialed 911 as they pulled out of the parking lot to report

what was happening and ask whether the agents were police officers. Daly

said she was planning to drive to a police station. She stopped the SUV

nearby for an agent driving a vehicle with lights and sirens, Chapman

said.



Chapman stood by the agents' decision to file charges, citing faith in a

process that yielded an appropriate resolution.



"You don't know all the facts until you complete the investigation," he

said.





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Crazy.



There was a recent article about car hijackings and people posing as

police officers. One of the recommendations given if you have serious

doubts as to their identity is to do exactly what this girl did. Drive

to the nearest police station.







All this because the plain closed ATF guys thought they saw a six pack

of booze. How embarrassing for them. Back to ATF boot camp they should go.





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No, they should not go back to

ATF boot camp. They should be immediately suspended without pay and

then fired. Along with at least 2 levels of manager above them.





Well, like I said earlier... we find out now if they are cops, or

pigs... Pigs won't take any responsibility, kind of like the current

administration...



What hasn't the "current administration" not taken responsibility for,

insane one?



Actually they have taken almost no blame. 4.5 years and counting and there

are still blaming the former administration for all the problems and lack

of cures.





Virtually all the problems we face are the result of policies of the

Bush Administration, and if the lack of cures bothers you, look no

further than the obstructionist Republicans in Congress to place the blame.

Absolutely Krausie! No doubt.

And by the way, since you personally knew every president since Truman, how would you rank them?

Also wondering Krausie, have you been to any Yale class reunions lately?

All the best to you,

~George