Secret police dispatch tipoff???

[Badgersmilk]

Some places have ordinances against "unregistered" vehicles. I know Laconia does.

DING!  I half way know the guy with the truck.  Went down and asked him why they took it.  He's not exactly pleased.  But in the cities defense, they'd given him a warning about the expired tag a few weeks ago.  Sooooo.  

Thanks for the advise on the other "psychic friends" guy!  I'm inclined to think your all right.  They always just seemed like one of those neighbors you don't wanna get to know.  You know?  

Still.  It'd be cool knowing whats going on in the neighborhood.  Maybe if I tell the guy that just lost his truck I think the other guy narced on him, HE'LL find out whats up!  THAT'D start some activity for the cops!    Life in town...  Who says its gotta be booring!  

[Pathfinder]

Some places have ordinances against "unregistered" vehicles. I know Laconia does.

So does our little piss-ant town of 700 people. One local resident who in fact keeps his property looking like a real s..thole put his derelict vehicles on registered auto trailers and parked the trailers on gravel, thereby complying with the letter of the ordinances. So the city is stumped, although he did manage to clean up the debris in the yard - mostly car parts, some broken kids' toys, etc.

There was also the episode that hit Youtube where a city crew (somewhere in PA IIRC) came onto private property and physically yanked a basketball pole and backstop from a guy's driveway. Seems some ordinance had passed and such poles were deemed "too close" to the street and therefore had to be removed. When the homeowners didn't remove it, the city violated their private property and removed the pole. Oh yeah, and the city stole the pole and backboard as well. The woman running the whole show was a singularly obnoxious little fascist too, mouthing off the whole time her "people" violated the rights of the homeowner.

The Kelo decision has serious f..ked this country's concepts of private property.

[fightingquaker13]

That sounds like trespass and theft to me, unless they had a warrant or some other court order for seizure. cf Amendment 5.
FQ13

[tt11758]

They might have called it in....she's a bitch right?
Why would the cops tow a truck that is on private property? 
I guess screwing with people with trucks in their driveway is safer than taking down meth labs, or actually looking for gangbangers. 

Good advice there.

If the people in whose driveway the truck was parked called them, they may have recovered a stolen vehicle.  That would prompt a tow.  Just a thought.

[jnevis]

We have scanner jockies here too.  They can quote you every 10 code and police dispatch code, even to the officer's badge number/callsign.   I have a hard enough time remembering my own info on a call.  Fire and EMS are "plain language" by law, LEO's are supposed to use it when on the air with Fire/EMS otherwise it's mostly numbers.  The ones we used in CA were primarily the criminal code section for the offense ie 415-fighting/assualt, 5150 psycho.  10 codes can change from area to area.

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[Solus]

That sounds like trespass and theft to me, unless they had a warrant or some other court order for seizure. cf Amendment 5.
FQ13

The pole was right at the curb, the folks were notified it needed to be moved, the city was acting upon a complaint of a neighbor and it was on the easement the city has alongside it's streets.

[Pathfinder]

The pole was right at the curb, the folks were notified it needed to be moved, the city was acting upon a complaint of a neighbor and it was on the easement the city has alongside it's streets.

If you're referring to the basketball pole I mentioned, no it was not at the curb. From the video I saw, it was easily 12-15' from the street, the loader had to come into the driveway to get at it, and the city was not acting on a complaint as they actually removed a number of basketball poles and hoops that day and a few days before that as well.

Yes, they were notified, but had no due process to fight back with, and the ordinance nazi's came and violated his sovereignty, just like the cops that towed the truck with no tags - from private property.

As I said, Kelo has seriously f..ked us all.