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Houdini trick amuses man

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Mike Buffington

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Thursday, April 14. 2011

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An officer observed a man crossing N. Broad Street at King Buffet the street just before midnight and stopped to speak to the man. The officer immediately noted the strong smell of alcohol coming from the suspect. When the officer attempted to question the man about his identity and what he was doing in the area, the man would only answer the officer’s questions with a question of his own. After several minutes of this, the officer placed the man under arrest for public intoxication and transported him to the BCDC. The officer noted that when they arrived at BCDC, the suspect had managed to move his cuffed hands from behind his back to the front of his body. The suspect seemed to find it funny that he was able to do this.

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#1 Bison Bimford on 04/14/11 at 07:36 AM [Reply]

Martial Law in Winder; Don't be caught out on the street after dark.
Welcome to the Police State, " ver are yur papers".
Protect and Serve has become Intimidate, Haras and Arrest.

#1.1 Anonymous on 04/14/11 at 12:01 PM [Reply]

You can find that happening anywhere. It isn't only in Winder.

Most cops are good guys, it only takes one to give them all a bad rep. Often the bad attitude starts at the top and works its way down to the men on the streets.

#1.1.1 Jack Legg on 04/16/11 at 10:07 PM [Reply]

Well anybody knows that if you are out walking around the streets after midnight that you are up to no good. What are the cops supposed to do ,? wait unitl these scumbags actually break the law to do somethibg? Its called crime prevention people.
Im glad that weve got cops out there busting these people up. its not a police stae.we as citizens have the right not to live in fear of these kinds of animals passing themselves off as regular folks.

#1.1.1.1 Kenny Roell on 04/17/11 at 05:36 PM [Reply]

Too bad 'Houdini' didn't reach into the front seat and give the gestapo a taste of his own handcuffs.

#2 Agree on 04/17/11 at 06:14 AM [Reply]

Jack Legg...I have to admit, for once I agree with you. Its not like this man was walking around at noon, Bimford. It was after midnight and he was in a commercial area where there was no open business. Why should we allow people like that out to do what they want? Good job police!

#3 mary on 04/17/11 at 06:28 AM [Reply]

Did ya ever think the cop might have stopped him to make sure he was okay?
Maybe you don't want to admit it, but you would have been suspicious too, just based on the fact that the guy is wandering around on foot at midnight. You don't honestly expect me to believe that you would have commented to your husband/wife "oh look honey, someone having a lovely midnight stroll through the parking lot of an empty restaurant". No, I think you too would have thought "I wonder what's wrong with that guy?"
It was that police officer's JOB to talk to the man. The man did the rest on his own.
And, Bimford, please highlight for me the place in the story where it says the officer "intimidated and harassed" that man?

#3.1 Bison Bimford on 04/19/11 at 10:44 AM [Reply]

Ya know, Mary its narrow minded and ignorant people like you and Jack Legg that cost us real Americans our freedoms and liberties.
What a couple of tyrannical cowards you two are.
Ever here of folks who work a second or third shift and maybe walk to work. Or how about a 24hr grocery store that people might walk to.
This country (now more than ever)needs brave and strong folks, not the cowardly who fear all things that go bump in the night.
Maybe if you were to mind your own buisness and quit engaging in infantile fantacies you would not be so fearful of your fellow man, even after midnight.

Brave up or shut up.

#4 jus saying on 04/18/11 at 02:15 AM [Reply]

so now we are not allowed outside of our homes at midnight? Maybe he should have gotten in a car and driven home.

#5 anonie mouse on 04/20/11 at 09:58 AM [Reply]

I hate to admit it, but I have to somewhat agree with Jack Legg on this one. I have no desire to live in a city where drunks are allowed to wander about the streets at all hours of the day or night. Not only that, but it isn't really safe for the drunks, either. They are easy targets for any thug that may want to do them harm.
The police are doing the right thing, for all our sakes, in getting them off the streets.
Bison, just because someone disagrees with you, doesn't make them necessarily ignorant or narrow-minded. Must you always resort to slinging insults? It makes you appear narrow-minded and ignorant.

#6 TheLaw on 05/06/11 at 03:55 PM [Reply]

If they had done nothing and the drunk stumbled into the street and was hit by a car, it's would be the Law Enforcement's fault for not stopping to help him earlier. LEO haters only have one agenda

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