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2019-11-01 at 2:04 AM UTC in Random image thread
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2019-11-01 at 2:03 AM UTC in Help SWIM find this website
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2019-11-01 at 2:02 AM UTC in Colorado home owner has house destroyed in shootout by police, federal court rules he is owed nothinghttps://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-federal-court-rules-police-dept-owes-homeowner-nothing-after-swat-destroys-his-house
A federal appeals court in Colorado ruled Tuesday that a local police department does not have to compensate a homeowner whose house was destroyed by 19 hours of gunfire between officers and an armed shoplifting suspect who had chosen to barricade himself inside to evade arrest.
Judges on the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a lower court’s decision, ruling that the city of Greenwood Village, near Denver, did not owe homeowner Leo Lech any additional compensation, even though the suspect was a stranger to the homeowner, the Denver Post reported.
Lech’s home, valued at $580,000, was marked for demolition in 2015 after a SWAT team used armored vehicles to breach the structure, deployed tear gas and explosives and shot 40 mm rounds in an effort to drive the suspect out after he refused to surrender and shot at officers, the Post reported. The suspect broke into the house when no one was home to use it as a hideout.
“The bottom line is that destroying somebody’s home and throwing them out in the street by a government agency for whatever circumstances is not acceptable in a civilized society,” Lech told the Post. “It destroyed our lives completely.”
Lech was renting his house to his son, John, who lived there with his girlfriend and her son, but they were not at home at time of the incident. The city had initially paid Lech $5,000 in temporary living assistance. John Lech moved in with his parents and his girlfriend's son had to change schools.
Lech's attorney told the Post that his home insurance company paid him $345,000 for the damage but that amount did not come close to covering additional costs related to personal property damage, demolishing and rebuilding the home and taking out a new mortgage on the new house.
“It’s a miracle insurance covered any of it in the first place,” attorney Rachel Maxam told the Post. “Insurance is for fires, floods. There’s no ‘police blew up my house’ insurance.”
She added that a home next door that suffered about $70,000 in damage was not compensated by its insurance company. The court’s decision said the police department and the city were not liable for damage caused to the property because officers were acting in their lawful role to arrest a criminal suspect.
The Courts, both State and Federal who have analyzed this matter, have consistently ruled in favor of the police actions taken to resolve this critical incident,” Greenwood Village said in a statement. “The Courts have recognized that while these types of events present difficult questions, the police should value life over property and may act pursuant to their police powers accordingly.”
Lech said he plans to appeal to case to the Supreme Court.
You heard it here folks. Cops can destroy your property as long as it's done in the line of duty. Blow up your walls, put bullet holes in your belongings, it doesn't matter. They won't pay you back a dime. -
2019-11-01 at 1:55 AM UTC in Help SWIM find this website
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2019-11-01 at 1:54 AM UTC in Help SWIM find this website
Originally posted by DietPiano lol, no it's not. It's legal and awesome and SWIM can't fucking find it. There were mirror archives after it went down he remembers but eventually those didn't work anymore but SWIM still heard reports of it being back up again but hasn't been able to find those.
Isn't it revenge porn? Not exactly legal -
2019-11-01 at 1:53 AM UTC in Who here has the most supreme tastes and why is it me?
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2019-11-01 at 1:51 AM UTC in Dump idiot Trump
Originally posted by larrylegend8383 His time in office is almost up so the Senate removing him is irrelevant. The House is holding that clown accountable. He will be recorded in history as being impeached.
Yep. Dumbass Republicans don't understand the difference between being impeached and being removed from office. I think we've had 6 presidents impeached, all for far lesser crimes than what Trump has done. None have been removed from office.
I'd honestly rather he didn't get removed tbh. Pence is way scarier and might actually get shit done. -
2019-11-01 at 1:48 AM UTC in The new Nancy Drew show.Kill yourself.
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2019-11-01 at 1:47 AM UTC in Trump is going down.Yep. He's going to be impeached, but not removed from office, just like Bill Clinton.
Then he'll lose the presidential race to either Biden or Warren.
Then he'll face his charges in court. Republicans will defend him to the death even after he's determined guilty and sitting behind bars. Then we'll all forget about it and in 10 years it'll just be some crazy shit in the textbooks that ultimately had little effect on America. -
2019-11-01 at 1:44 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕
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2019-11-01 at 1:43 AM UTC in there is so much more to the music game than you plebes know
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2019-11-01 at 1:39 AM UTC in The longest thread on the internet! Free custom LOLcats inside! Ask within!
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2019-11-01 at 1:38 AM UTC in How do you feel about Tulsi Gabbard?
Originally posted by DietPiano Yeah, he's kind of a freak actually. I read his wife's book while Ubering and oh my fucking god all she talks about literally every other sentence in sequence one after another is
"White people" "Black people" "I like potato chips"
"Black people" "I like gizzards" "White people (Boo)"
over and over and over and you learn how race relations between black and white people is literally the most important thing in these two peoples' lives, They both turned down ridiculously prestigious positions to go work for dirt money at a race related nonprofit. It's not like I'm upset about it, it's just… really strange.
Politicians are of a different breed.
Michelle obama is sexy tho -
2019-11-01 at 1:08 AM UTC in How do you feel about Tulsi Gabbard?
Originally posted by Sudo If Tulsi Gabbard is president it will make america look better to the rest of the world because she's not an obvious charleton like donald fucking trump or a quasi well intentioned weirdo like Obama and she's not a socialist or an old buerocreep
How is Obama a weirdo? He has great social skills and is a fantastic speaker. Plus he's a solid family man. -
2019-11-01 at 12:04 AM UTC in The US is not a "free" country.
Originally posted by aldra yeah there's that and then there's absurdly unrealistic expectations though
Which is why I'm not a virgin.
But also why I don't sleep with everyone who wants to sleep with me or hit on random women I don't even know. Like, it's not hard to have sex. It's not an accomplishment. There's always someone willing to let you stick your dick in them.
Once you know that, the hunt is like... Eh. Sex isn't everything. It's definitely not worth putting up with random women. -
2019-10-31 at 11:46 PM UTC in Help SWIM find this websiteIt's a child porn site
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2019-10-31 at 11:45 PM UTC in Who here has the most supreme tastes and why is it me?Schizophrenia symptoms:
Delusions of grandeur -
2019-10-31 at 11:44 PM UTC in The new Nancy Drew show.Nobody gives a shit but you, kid.
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2019-10-31 at 11:02 PM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕
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2019-10-31 at 11:02 PM UTC in How do you feel about Tulsi Gabbard?
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country The electoral college exists as the usa is a vast federal country with previous cohesion issues, and proportional representation tends to favour and empower small parties, therefore the two big parties have reason not to allow it.
Like I said, a proportionally representative system would solve that issue. FPTP voting is inherently flawed and geared to polarize voters.
Also the electoral votes are not what you think they are. Yes, its a system where rural communities get more voting power and thus "equal" representation, but it also effectively nullifies some voters. Like a Democrat living in Mississippi for example. The electoral college will shift in favor of the Republicans, and their vote will now count as a Republican vote because FPTP is a winner takes all system. There are alot of democrats and Republicans in those final counts that in fact voted the opposite.
Its just a really fucked system that no other democracy uses. There are ways of making it fair without nullifying voters.
