SFCRetired
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I think it's somewhere in between. I didn't see thethread but would like to know what others are experiencing. Unless you're giving away incriminating info like date, time, place, who was involved or anything else that could be used in a court room then no worries.Write a good short story inspired by true events.I don't see any significant risk in posting information about your experiences unless you are going to incriminate yourself in a crime - almost all the stories posted here have to do with folks who think the authorities have violated their rights, not where the posters have comitted any crimes, and tha facts they post are already known to the authorities.
Invocation of the NATO doctrine requires posting spot reports sharing information is good, adds value.
This is a good point that you bring up, Mike.SNIP unless you are going to incriminate yourself in a crime
True,Mike wrote:This is a good point that you bring up, Mike.SNIP unless you are going to incriminate yourself in a crime
We've had a couple situations where it was open to question whether the poster was reporting something that amounted to a violation of the law.
One fella sweated a good bit. He was harassed at a traffic stop over a gun on his dash. He did not have a CHP, but he also had a newly purchased gun, bought just a little earlier that evening, in its box in a bag in the back seat. Only later, after carefully reviewing his states concealed weapon law did he find the exception for transporting to or from a place of purchase, unloaded and securely wrapped. He sweated agood bit until he found that, thinking he had incriminated himself by posting about the backseat gun on the forum.
If you do post a police encounter, I suggestmaking very sure you weren't violating some law the officer didn't recognize was being violated at the time. Police not knowing the gun laws can conceiveably cut both ways.
If you have not broken the law there is little to worry about.SNIP
Hypocrite!I say we stop telling other people what they should or shouldn't post.
Devils Advocate wrote:If you have not broken the law there is little to worry about. SNIP
:quirky Really?
I say we stop telling other people what they should or shouldn't post.
When I was working with the power company a friend of mine was climbing a pole and his hooks hit the head of a nail that had been left from a yard sale sign. He fell and broke his leg. Although this seems like a very trivial law there is a very distinct and good reason for it. I will admit that it is broken quite frequently by otherwise law abiding citizens but there are also many many cases of this causing injuries and cost to companies having to remove the left over nails.it's a third to attach matter to telephone poles or highway signs.
Yeah, tell that to Dan. How many thousands of his own dollars has he had to use to "prove" he didn't break a law.Devils Advocate wrote:If you have not broken the law there is little to worry about.SNIP
:quirkyReally?
Hell, tell it to the Duke lacross team.Tomahawk wrote:Yeah, tell that to Dan. How many thousands of his own dollars has he had to use to "prove" he didn't break a law.Devils Advocate wrote:If you have not broken the law there is little to worry about.SNIP
:quirkyReally?