[QUOTE=Zipper34;3381088]In this particular case it could be a good argument. Last thing I will say about this is that these guys are idiots to even go to the place where they were told to go. With the media, freedom of speech overrides innocent until proven guilty. While these guys are not guilty of anything in a trial and conviction sense, they are guilty because of freedom of speech by media.[/QUOTE]Prosecutions don't matter.
Being arrested SUCKS, even if (maybe more so) you're innocent, or confident you won't be convicted.
Even the whitest (let's be honest), richest, most connected guy with three attorneys on autodial is spending at LEAST six hours in jail, because it takes that long just to be processed. And if you can't contact someone to bail you out? Hello, jail pajamas and PB&J.
Plus, mugshot and arrest info gets scraped by all the mugshot sites pretty much same day, and stay up forever; they SEO the shit out of those sites, too, so if you have a weird name, your arrest is coming up on Google's page one forever. Fun to keep explaining to future employers.
If you're married? "hey hon, no worries, I'll get off on a technicality!" Right.
So threat of arrest is a HUGE disincentive to hobbying, which is the whole intent of this kind of operation: scare the money away. ALL the municipalities want is for pay for play to stop where they are, and go somewhere else: it's a big game of whack-a-mole. Pretty effective too, I imagine (I haven't hobbied in Cobb or Gwinnett in years.).
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