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Dude should have told the cops to come back with a warrant

and go back to his girlfriend - and be even louder during round 2

why did he let them in?

Sux for him

Originally posted by jam321

Would you feel the same if the cops had found a young kidnapped girl upstairs?

This is a difficult one. I believe if I was a cop, I would ask to look inside just to be on the safe side.

Right on man, lets just search EVERY home in the country without warrants or anything because you know, WE WILL SAVE TONS OF LITTLE GIRLS!!!!

Maybe....

Or maybe we will just be burning the Constitution and any Freedom we have left?

Hmmmm.... tough one.

Originally posted by Ventessa
Good thing I don't do anything illegal....

Not yet at least!

everything is becoming illegal, that's what people don't understand

Originally posted by LadySkadi
Dude should have told the cops to come back with a warrant

I have an idea he might off, if your growing that much veg you gotta know what the first to say to the cops is... Well one would hope!

I think there are various things they can literally kick your door down for, and hearing screams seems to be one of those things...... His only hope at that point is to be incredibly diplomatic and have the police never enter and leave laughing at the misunderstanding....

Maybe there was also a slight anger (or more likely desperation!) in his tone that sealed his fate, or a furtive mannerism... The dude was surprised mid stroke by police and he had enough greenery to hover for a month in the next room.

As you said - Sux to be him ........... Mind you 10 years??? I doubt that would get 12-20 months here in the UK.

Haha!

What is the world coming to?

Maybe I should rig my speakers to my guitar amp during sex!

I don't see this story as having anything to do with sex.

It has to do with loud screaming coming from inside of a house.

So, ATS should write their congressmen to get screaming in houses a right of everyone and then we can all kill people inside of our homes as long as we have a member of the opposite sex with us to answer the door and so, "Oh, officer we were just having sex!"

They had a legal right to be there. The problem is, did they have a legal right to take the investigation further, and if so, what were the requirements to do so? The police talked to both people but were not satisfied with the answers, so the question is, why were they not satisfied and what led them to investigate further?

Anyway, I think the police asked if they could come in, he said "sure" and from there it was on. He should have told them to wait, should have closed the door, or should have told his GF to go get his I.D.

Originally posted by LadySkadi
Dude should have told the cops to come back with a warrant

and go back to his girlfriend - and be even louder during round 2

why did he let them in?

Sux for him

He should have pre-negotiated the scope of the search. If they were concerned about others being in the house under captivity or duress he should have made the Officers sign a quid pro quo agreement allowing them to search the home but only for those things.

They could have confiscated the Marijuana if it was in plain site but they could not have charged him.

Chances are the Warrant would have limited the search in a similar way so the cops would have been happy to take that deal if they were truly interested in just seeing that the home was a secure and safe environment for anyone inside.

However without a legitimate complainant they really had no grounds to search the home. At most the neighbor could have claimed noise ordinances were being exceeded which is hard to measure the decibel level of and certainly doesn’t warrant a search of the home.

Had he refused to let them search the house chances are that they would have just waited outside the house for the warrant prohibiting him from removing anything from the house?

Chances are who ever called in the complaint shared another few choice tidbits with the police to arouse their suspicion…”And he drives a motor cycle and has tattoos and his eyes are always red and his sheep are always scared!”.

I hope that this guy takes this to an appellate court and all the way up the line to the Supreme Court if need be.

This is not right!

As a police officer, I would search the home for any other persons that may be in distress in the house. If I find something in the process then too bad for you! Don't break the law by growing illegal plants and you won't get in trouble, my concern is the safety of other potential victims...

Can you imagine if there was someone found dead or severely injured the next day in that house? I'm sure some people would be bashing the officers for not searching the house...

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