3rd Amendment Violation?

Wow, that's bad.

I'm just pleased that I came up with "quartering" based on your subject line - you don't hear of the 3rd Amendment very often.

lol, I'm embarrassed to admit that I had no idea what the 3rd amendment even was prior to reading this story.  :-/

"Obstructing" an Officer has got to be the biggest load of BS charge ever created. 

Ya, I don't really see the 3rd argument having any traction. But the 4th and 14th most certainly. what is even most shocking to me is a police department even thinking they could do such a thing.... I mean I know they have powers in iminent danger situations... such as Boston, which is debatable... but to order somone from their home so they can kick it for a while and investigate something.... absolutely astounded.

On other sites I visit, I actually have to argue with the tin foil people that the government is not trying to round us all up and send us to the gas chamber... but then you have this. We most certainly have taken a dramatic turn to a police state with the war on drugs and terrorisim, and I for one do not like it.

I'm guessing a few heads are going to roll...

Bottom line though.. if cops came to my door and told me to get out.. I would. I'd be pissed, but I wouldn't mess with them. some of those guys are CRAZY. 

Ya, no.

I'm not walking out of my own home with no warrant. I'm not saying there will be a shoot out, or I will win anything, but I am not leaving without force. And then I will have my day in court.

enjoy.

i'm with you...if my neighbor is trying to murder his wife (or her husband, let's be gender equal here) why in the HELL would i want to just hang out???

besides that - why would i want to STOP police from saving someone from a terrible situation?  if surrendering my living room protects JUST ONE PERSON, why wouldn't i?

Trust me on this......if the Police ever knock on your door and tell you to get out of your house because they need to use it.....this is the correct response:

 "We are both HIV positive."

Then enjoy the rest of your day.

Gotta log that one away, good info!

Oh sure... Me: "We're HIV positive officer"  My 10 year old son: "What does "HIV positive" mean?"

um.. I'll pass on using that response...  

Me - "it means they're leaving".

It did not say anything about anyone's life in danger. No murder, no police standoff, no suspect in the area. It said, the police wanted to use their house for surveilence in an investigation... and they had to GET OUT.

Ya, no. Not going to happen peacfully. I'm no tough guy. I'm not anti-police. I'm all for civic duties.... being told to get out of my house... sorry, won't do that just because it is convinient for you and you told me so.

~coughing all over everything~

"OK, sure, can I get my hepititus medicine?"

Where is a good cace of leprosy when you need it?

I'm telling you....no cop will sit in your house of they think you have a disease. 

Or....just start runing around clucking like a chicken and pecking at the ground.

I'm just really floored any police department would think that was an option. Let alone actually do it.

I know.....but I'd also like to hear the other side....some of that story just didn't ring true with me.  The cops ate food from their house?  Uh.....I know cops....they're not eating anything from someone elses house that they don't know.  Hell, we throw entire trays of food away that people bring to the station because we don't know where it came from.  They did it to another family and it just happened to be relatives of the first family?  None of that sound right to me.

I'd kinda like to be at that debriefing... 

Personally, I think they'll get more heat from pepper spraying the dog than they would get from shooting the occupants.