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Showing Original Post only (View all)Girl buys water, spends night in jail [View all]
Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News 3 hours ago
The Sideshow Society
Felony charges were dropped on Thursday against a 20-year-old University of Virginia student who says she panicked when undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage Control division mistook her water purchase for beer.
According to Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress, the student, Elizabeth Daly, was walking to her car on April 11 at approximately 10:15 p.m. with a box of sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream she had just bought from a local supermarket when the agentssix men and one woman, all in plainclothesapproached suspecting the box, a blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water, to be a 12-pack of beer. One jumped on the hood of her SUV; another pulled out a gun, Daly said, as her roommates seated inside looked on in horror.
"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform," Daly wrote in an account submitted to the court. "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."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/uva-girl-water-beer-jail-181104442.html
The Sideshow Society
Felony charges were dropped on Thursday against a 20-year-old University of Virginia student who says she panicked when undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage Control division mistook her water purchase for beer.
According to Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress, the student, Elizabeth Daly, was walking to her car on April 11 at approximately 10:15 p.m. with a box of sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream she had just bought from a local supermarket when the agentssix men and one woman, all in plainclothesapproached suspecting the box, a blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water, to be a 12-pack of beer. One jumped on the hood of her SUV; another pulled out a gun, Daly said, as her roommates seated inside looked on in horror.
"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform," Daly wrote in an account submitted to the court. "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."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/uva-girl-water-beer-jail-181104442.html
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If on the hood, the manual apparently says to fire through the windshield and kill the driver...
xocet
Jun 2013
#31
If it'd been ahigh fructose corn syrup beverage they should have tased her!
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2013
#16
7 plainsclothes officers approach a young woman for possible under age beer purchase
think
Jun 2013
#3
in a not-so- well-lit parking lot--and don't forget the one who jumped on the hood of her car.
niyad
Jun 2013
#19
Easy for a potential employer to Google your name. Most won't bother to ask about it and go on...
L0oniX
Jun 2013
#22
they were probably hoping that waiting all this time would allow people to forget and they could
niyad
Jun 2013
#20
They all need to be fired now. And to be sued, singly and severally. This is bullshit.
freshwest
Jun 2013
#10
unprofessional goon squad charges citizen with 3 felonies... and its all A-OK with the DA!
Agony
Jun 2013
#12
Don't forget. No uniforms or identifiable badges. And all this drama over underaged drinking?
freshwest
Jun 2013
#25
Okay, seven. And the vehicles they used undercover. And the gas. And the wages.
freshwest
Jun 2013
#37
there are many stories about this incident, including wapo and other news sources. according
niyad
Jun 2013
#39
Wow, is there any way to defend this shit? Over beer? These idiots need to lose their job. n-t
Logical
Jun 2013
#36
I don't see how there is any possible way to defend the cop's actions here.
penultimate
Jun 2013
#40