By adamg on Tue., 4/22/2008 - 10:46 am
OK, maybe I'm not cut out to write headlines for Channel 7. Still, will be interesting to see how they play the case of their general manager, whom the Herald reports was arrested at Logan for "unruly behavior." She says a male passenger on her inbound flight tried to fondle her and that she got upset when the flight attendant told her to "calm down." One thing led to another and State Police wound up cuffing her on the ground.
The Globe paints a slightly different picture, one involving an out-of-control angry drunk threatening a trooper's job.
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Refusing to show ID
By Gareth
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 3:02pm
Can be done in many forms.
Form A:
"Thank you very much for your concern, officer, but I choose not to show you my identification at this time. If I am not being arrested, may I leave now?"
Form B:
"Gesh your hans offme you $%^&# mother $^&%$ Do you know who I (hic) am? I'll have your bash n send you to $%#$@@ jail, you (urrrp) mother#%$$@@"
I imagine there is a lawyer who would argue, for a fee, that the cop shouldn't have tried to find out who she was. But I also imagine she'll cop a plea rather than air this all out in public again.
you are compelled to ID yourself to police in MA
By Brett
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 3:16pm
You do not need to PRESENT some sort of ID, but if asked who you are by an officer in MA, you must respond truthfully. You're not required to carry your driver's license if you're not driving (duh), but I'm not sure if you DO have your ID on you if it is illegal to refuse to show it. Probably illegal to claim you don't have it on you- it's generally not very legal to lie to cops :)
If you're arrested, everything under your control is subject to search. This includes your bags, a laptop on the desk in front of you, etc. It does not include your car on the street.
(IANAL)
Exception for flying or driving
By Kaz
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 3:22pm
When flying or driving, you do have to have identification on you and you are forced to present it.
Actually I think they'd need
By stephencaldwell
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 3:23pm
Actually I think they'd need a warrant to go rifling through your data.
actually, you're guessing,
By anon
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 5:27pm
actually, you're guessing, and you're wrong.
You don't have to have ID while driving
By John K
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 9:58pm
You're guessing, too.
You don't have to have ID when driving.
You can provide it, later.
Geez.
What would be the charge, "Failure to prove he is who he says he is?"
If you get hauled in for a traffic violation, yes. A licensee must display it to a magistrate or judge upon request if brought before them for any traffic violation. A charge of failure to have your license in possession while driving is automatically dismissed if you produce it in
court, as long as it was valid, etc. After two such dismissals, the court has the option not to dismiss.
From an earlier story
By Kaz
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 3:46pm
The Boston Globe profiled Randi a few months ago in September. The outgoing manager, Mike Carson gave the following quote:
Man, you just never know sometimes.
Cases Channel 7 believes in trying in public
By adamg
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 6:42pm
Michael Pahre compiles a list:
Copies of the police report
By adamg
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 7:58pm
Part 1.
Part 2.
But yeah, the story about the disabled detective and the sucky retirement system is way more significant, if less sexy in a news sense (so props to the Globe for putting it on the front page).
Klink Drink Klunk Drunk
By Ned Devine
Wed, 04/23/2008 - 2:44am
She had 36 drinks give or take a dozen.
She was acting up on the plane and had to be helped off
by the flight attendants. She pulled the sexual assault card after the Staties pulled her in.
She sounds like a trainwreck who needs therapy, AA, and
a new job as assistant program manager at some 3rd rate
country western radio station in the Florida panhandle.
Maybe she was just celebrating Bobby Lobel's last day
at Ch. 4, who knows?
ataku
Once again, it has been
By anon
Wed, 04/23/2008 - 5:23pm
Once again, it has been proven. Swirrly girl's arch nemesis is logic. i love the whole " I am Harvard trained and you are not" argument. That was great. Pretentious is not a strong enough word.
Pretentious is not a strong enough word.
By Anonymous
Thu, 04/24/2008 - 12:23am
Maybe, if you went to Harvard, you know a word that's strong enough... or at least where to look it up.
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