Birthday Blindfolding Leads To Girls' Arrests

[Are_grits_groceries]

A Seminole County girl, hoping to enjoy her surprise 18th birthday party, ended up in the back of a police car. The girl's friends had put a blindfold over her eyes so they could take her to the party's secret location, but police thought the blindfold was part of a kidnapping.

Briana Vega is quite the party planner.

"And I spent the whole day decorating," Vega said.

It was supposed to be a surprise, an 18th birthday bash for her best friend Courtney Rogers.

"I mean, I’m a good kid. I get good grades in school. I never thought I'd be arrested. Especially being the victim in this situation," Rogers said.

It began in the parking lot of Dan’s Family Restaurant on US-17/92. That's where Briana blindfolded Courtney to take her to the party.

http://www.wftv.com/news/23451649/detail.html

Why didn't they check it out and see if it was real if they doubted the girls? You have any doubts about why the court dockets are full?

[MrScorpio]

1. What's the Charge, having too much fun?

Yep, you're right the cops and courts apparently have too much time on their hands.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. "They outraged the sense of public decency, a crime called breach of the peace."

Longwood police see things differently and they spell it out in an arrest report and supporting documents that total 15 pages. Officers said the girls thought the fake kidnapping was funny and they outraged the sense of public decency, a crime called breach of the peace.
http://www.wftv.com/news/23451649/detail.html

If this is the standard, then they couldn't handle all the court cases. FIFTEEN PAGES???? How long did that take? It kept the cops off the streets for an obviously very dangerous crime.

I'd love to read it and see what nonsense is in it.

[MrScorpio]

4. Amazing.

Why is it that our legal system can't differentiate between a harmless prank and an actual crime?

This is beyond stupid.

[Quantess]

2. I swear, it's becoming illegal to have fun these days.

Tinfoil hat time: to me, this chronic overreaction to harmless behavior is tied to the overzealous "Homeland Security" since 9/11. At the airport, you can't even talk about driving a boom truck without getting questioned by security. Step out of line the tiniest bit, and people get suspicious. It's a symptom of fascism-lite.

[MrScorpio]

6. Damn Skippy nt

[midnight]

5. K&R

[ejpoeta]

7. so just because they saw the girl in a blindfold they thought she was being kidnapped?

was she tied up or something? was she screaming?? please tell me that was no the only indication they had! and i am sure they could have quickly verified what was going on. sounds like they have egg on their face and they don't want to look like idiots these clowns need someone to give them a damned vacation!

[MrScorpio]

8. Cops and courts despise having ever to admit to having made errors in judgement

It's much easier to make a lesson out of people

[mrcheerful]

10. Yep there are no innocent people in prison and no one accepts plea bargains unless

they are guilty is how the justice system works. Even when someone is proven to being convicted innocent, law enforcement accepts no responsibility, they just did their job and it was beyond their powers when they convict an innocent. But hey, having a criminal record isn't all that bad, why society accepts the criminals back into the fold with open arms, right. Besides we have the best justice system that money can buy.

And why should the innocent really mind being locked up for a few years on crimes they admitted to because cops tricked them into talking to them without a lawyer present. I mean come on american prisons are actually big summer camps for adults. Why they get the best food money can buy, they have no bills to pay, they get a nice comfy bed, why they even get cable TV, really how bad is that? :sarcasm:, because I seen people post that crap on DU.

[ejpoeta]

13. we had two cases here where we went through that. anthony cappozi

for crimes committed by altimio sanchez (the bike path rapist) and crystal lynn gerard's mother who went to prison. so instead of admitting that they gave immunity to the real killer in the one for the 13 year old girl they changed the cause of death to an overdose. a cop went to the media on that one. i figured that after they had to let capozzi out there was no way they were giving in on the second. better an innocent person spends years in prison than to admit wrongdoing.

[FSogol]

9. Next story: Police arrest everyone playing pin the tail on the donkey at a 5 year olds' b-day party

And that blindfolded kid hitting the pinata looks suspicious also.

[CTLawGuy]

11. They're teenagers so of course they're criminals

:eyes:

Reminds me of a car commercial I have unfortunately started seeing. It shows a panoramic view the messy bedroom of a 16 year old. The announcer says, "not everyone has to share a room with a 16 year old, but we all have to share the road with them. Get a safe car." I don't even remember the company. (How would people feel about that same ad showing lots of stereotypical items in a room and starting out "we all don't have to live with a WOMAN/OLD PERSON/BLACK PERSON/ASIAN, but..."?) (Ironically, when I was in HS, one of my classmates was put in a wheelchair for months because of a car accident that was the fault of an elderly driver.)


Makes me glad I'm no longer a teenager. Society treats teenagers as if they are criminals, lazy and incompetent, and its apparently ok.

[old mark]

12. More legal dumbass - I am amazed how fucking stupid our legal system really is

and how much personal ego is involved in prosecuting people for crimes - the judges and DA's HATE to be wrong, and there are a lot of stupid cases like this continuing because they are not willing to admit a mistake.

mark