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vertygo:
Why would so many cops live together ? That sounds really suspicious! Maybe you should call the cops on.. er.. oh fuddle.

Mauzy:
Ha. They're all from different towns or places. There's a Champaign, Savoy, Urbana, U of I campus, and two others that I havent met but have been mentioned by the other cops. Sucks to be 17 with a Jeep in this neighborhood...

SavannahLion:

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--- Quote from: RayB on June 25, 2008, 01:59:49 pm ---A cop cannot arrest you for copyright infringement even if he wanted to.
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I thought that was one of the charges police arrested Johansen for?

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If there's a warrant for your arrest, then it falls within their jurisdiction to haul you in. But no cop will cuff you and "take ya downtown" just because he saw you reading a photocopy of a book. It's not like possession of drugs or assaulting someone. Copyright owners must build a case against you first.

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I see what you're saying. You do realize that it's not uncommon for a knowledgable (or one pretending to be so) police officer to tack on a bunch of ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- charges when they're hauling you in. Occassionally a charge will come across my desk where the officer tacked on something akin to bootlegging (I forget the exact code, not my fish anyways) in addition to whatever other charge they hit them with.

ie, I got pulled over and the officer tried to tack on a "fixit" to me for obstructing my license plate. What was I obstructing the license plate with? The tow ball. The same damn tow ball I had on two previous trucks and the same exact type of tow ball my father had for thirty some odd years on every truck he ever owned. That particular tow ball was probably older than the cop himself, but he decided to tack the charge on anyways. It was the first time any officer ever tried to tack that kind of infraction on me.

Dartful Dodger:
the guys I've seen at auctions look exactly how you'd expect video game guys to look(oddballs).

After the auction, while waiting to pick up the game I bought, I ended up talking to someone who looked and acted normal.  It was when he posted what game he bought at the auction that I realized he was a fellow BYOACer.

At other auctions I’d overhear people introduce themselves to each other by their usernames.  Most of them were in shape and none of them had a foul body odor.  I told a buddy of mine, that’s how you know who’s from this site.  People with any self-respect are in the minority at an arcade auction.

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