Posers' Coffee House, All Bullshit Accepted, Part VI
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Cookeville news
Judge tosses DUI charge after doubt placed on stop
PUTNAM COUNTY — Judge John Hudson dismissed the charges against a Cookeville man in court yesterday.
Richard Ballard was charged with DUI (fourth offense), driving on a suspended license, implied content law violation, registration law violation and violation of financial responsibility law following being stopped by James Lee III of the Cookeville Police Department. The Cookeville Police Department had received an anonymous tip that there was someone who was possibly intoxicated driving a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
The police report, dated April 12, states the anonymous complainant said was the driver was described as being “a white male on a black Harley Davidson motorcycle wearing a cream shirt with a white female passenger wearing a denim shirt and a backpack headed north of Jefferson Avenue...”
Lee noted in his report that he “was still waiting for traffic to allow him to safely pull out when the driver of a car heading northbound on South Jefferson Avenue pulled up to me and said ‘that’s them’.” According to the report, Lee assumed they were the complainants.
Shawn Fry, who defended Ballard, told the Herald-Citizen that he objected on the grounds of hearsay because of the anonymous caller. “He has no idea who it was, what they knew...,” Fry said.
According to Fry, Lee saw Ballard coming out of the tobacco liquor store and he got behind him on Jefferson Avenue. He said Lee pulled over Ballard after he said he made a wobbly turn on Interstate Drive. “He can’t tell me what a wobbly turn is,” Fry said.
Fry said Lee admitted that making a wobbly turn is not against the law and he didn’t observe Ballard do anything illegal.
According to Fry, there are two types of informants, a criminal informant and a citizen informant. A criminal informant is someone who is already in trouble who are providing information about a crime, while a citizen informant is a citizen who witnesses something illegal or what they believe may be an illegal activity. “You can’t say it’s a citizen informant because you don’t know who it is,” Fry said.
http://www.herald-citizen.com/newsx/...placed-on-stop
PUTNAM COUNTY — Judge John Hudson dismissed the charges against a Cookeville man in court yesterday.
Richard Ballard was charged with DUI (fourth offense), driving on a suspended license, implied content law violation, registration law violation and violation of financial responsibility law following being stopped by James Lee III of the Cookeville Police Department. The Cookeville Police Department had received an anonymous tip that there was someone who was possibly intoxicated driving a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
The police report, dated April 12, states the anonymous complainant said was the driver was described as being “a white male on a black Harley Davidson motorcycle wearing a cream shirt with a white female passenger wearing a denim shirt and a backpack headed north of Jefferson Avenue...”
Lee noted in his report that he “was still waiting for traffic to allow him to safely pull out when the driver of a car heading northbound on South Jefferson Avenue pulled up to me and said ‘that’s them’.” According to the report, Lee assumed they were the complainants.
Shawn Fry, who defended Ballard, told the Herald-Citizen that he objected on the grounds of hearsay because of the anonymous caller. “He has no idea who it was, what they knew...,” Fry said.
According to Fry, Lee saw Ballard coming out of the tobacco liquor store and he got behind him on Jefferson Avenue. He said Lee pulled over Ballard after he said he made a wobbly turn on Interstate Drive. “He can’t tell me what a wobbly turn is,” Fry said.
Fry said Lee admitted that making a wobbly turn is not against the law and he didn’t observe Ballard do anything illegal.
According to Fry, there are two types of informants, a criminal informant and a citizen informant. A criminal informant is someone who is already in trouble who are providing information about a crime, while a citizen informant is a citizen who witnesses something illegal or what they believe may be an illegal activity. “You can’t say it’s a citizen informant because you don’t know who it is,” Fry said.
http://www.herald-citizen.com/newsx/...placed-on-stop
09-12-2014, 06:27 AM
Big Kahuna HDF Member
09-12-2014, 07:06 AM
Those can be mean. I had one that was just like you said, moved a certain amount and no more. Stick of wood (ash is best, pine shreds, oak will bend the metal) and a dead blow hammer, tap it not too hard with the wood against the front edge of the muffler, working it around so it doesn't **** too bad. Takes patience, can't whack it too hard. Like KR said, WD40, or PB Blaster, seems to work better. When it's off, use the oil as a cleaner, with steel wool or one of those non-stick pan cleaning scotchbrite pads (blue, don't scratch like the green ones) and get the crud and rust off, wipe it dry, and smear the mating surfaces with anti seize; I've taken them apart later after doing them that way, and they slipped right off. I always put things together with the assumption I'll be the guy that has to take them apart again.
I'll give it another try tonight after work.
Thanks guys.
