Boy meets girl. Girl invites boy home to her house, because parents are out. The kids get busy.
Mom comes home early. Nekkid Boy hides in closet.
Mom is a cop, mom pulls gun, handcuffs Nekkid Boy. (This sounds like a great premise for a porn movie, by the way! Cop Mom plus daughter on handcuffed Nekkid Boy action.)
But, no. Instead, extremely angry Cop Mom tries to get handcuffed Nekkid Boy charged with forcible entry (of the house, of the house).
Not surprisingly, supervisors say that since the boy was invited by the daughter, this is not (in any sense) forcible entry.
Boy, no longer Nekkid, sues Cop Mom.
Judge, using repeated references to Jim Croce, says that the Cop Mom was reacting as a Mom, not a Cop. Seriously, you can read about it here. They even have a link to the decision itself. Excerpt:
"Collier was an angry parent who happened to be in uniform, have handcuffs and a firearm, which she used for the private ends of scaring a young man she caught in bed with her daughter," Judge Carnes found.
"Although Collier did use the pistol that she wore as an officer, any adult without a felony record can lawfully possess a firearm (and tens of millions do)," the judge added.
"If the allegations are true, Collier's treatment of Butler was badder than old King Kong and meaner than a junkyard dog," Carnes wrote, returning to Croce's lyrics. "She might even have acted like the meanest hunk of woman anybody had ever seen. Still, the fact that the mistreatment was mean does not mean that the mistreatment was under color of law."
Only in Florida, folks!
(With thanks to Angry Alex. And, to be fair, I think this could have happened in Missouri, also)
Mom comes home early. Nekkid Boy hides in closet.
Mom is a cop, mom pulls gun, handcuffs Nekkid Boy. (This sounds like a great premise for a porn movie, by the way! Cop Mom plus daughter on handcuffed Nekkid Boy action.)
But, no. Instead, extremely angry Cop Mom tries to get handcuffed Nekkid Boy charged with forcible entry (of the house, of the house).
Not surprisingly, supervisors say that since the boy was invited by the daughter, this is not (in any sense) forcible entry.
Boy, no longer Nekkid, sues Cop Mom.
Judge, using repeated references to Jim Croce, says that the Cop Mom was reacting as a Mom, not a Cop. Seriously, you can read about it here. They even have a link to the decision itself. Excerpt:
"Collier was an angry parent who happened to be in uniform, have handcuffs and a firearm, which she used for the private ends of scaring a young man she caught in bed with her daughter," Judge Carnes found.
"Although Collier did use the pistol that she wore as an officer, any adult without a felony record can lawfully possess a firearm (and tens of millions do)," the judge added.
"If the allegations are true, Collier's treatment of Butler was badder than old King Kong and meaner than a junkyard dog," Carnes wrote, returning to Croce's lyrics. "She might even have acted like the meanest hunk of woman anybody had ever seen. Still, the fact that the mistreatment was mean does not mean that the mistreatment was under color of law."
Only in Florida, folks!
(With thanks to Angry Alex. And, to be fair, I think this could have happened in Missouri, also)
5 comments:
Well, it *did* happen in Nebraska. In 1986. Only the mom was a dad, and he spared using the handcuffs on m... er, Nekkid Boy.
(also, no lawsuit)
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Hey, the link doesn't appear to be working for me. Can you please paste the html here in the comments maybe? Thanks!
Got overwritten somehow. Fixed. But here it is, to be sure: http://main.aol.com/2012/07/18/jim-croce-decision-dorothea-collier_n_1687031.html
Thanks!
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