If someone is going to skip, they pay the 10% to a bondsman. So overtime bonds increased to 10x what they should be. Except now you don’t get anything back.
For most Americans it’s a flat fee to get out of jail.
Especially with how long cases go, not many can afford to wait a year for that money to come back after trial. Or to spend the year in jail waiting.
This reminds me of a video a few years ago where a mom was trying to take a picture with her kid and a bison. The kid looked super nervious, but mom kept pushing the kid to get closer. There's gotta be so many close calls like that where people don't realize that national parks are not zoos, and the animals will absolutely fuck you up. Hell, animals in zoos will fuck you up too, that's why they tell you to stay away from the fence.
Last month, the NPS put out warnings following a string of human encounters with Yellowstone wildlife that were going viral on social media.
In one video posted in May, a woman was seen getting close to a bison and taking a selfie, which park officials said was dangerous given the animal's unpredictable movements and actions. The agency noted that bison can run three times faster than humans.
Taking a selfie with a bison is one of the dumbest things a person can ever do lol.
My grandfather told the family that his premiums are going up so much in September that he has decided to just sell his house and move to South Carolina. I don’t know what he was paying or how much they are increasing it but it must be bad if he’s moving after living there for 30+ years.
Well the stolen documents were taken from DC, and yet the case was brought before the Florida Southern District Court, so why not give the stolen documents case to a DC circuit? Not trying to argue, just trying to make sense of it.
Those charges aren’t really about taking documents. They are about refusing to return them, lying about whether they had all been returned, and possibly showing them to unauthorized individuals. The documents were in Mar-a-lago when this was going on.
The taking of the documents is the least important of the charges. In fact, they didn’t charge him with taking documents. They charged him under the espionage act where he hid defense secrets, obstructed, lied, and conspired, shared those secrets, after numerous attempts by the authorities to retrieve them. And that all took place in Florida. Had they charged him in DC it would have delayed* the trial. The venue was a calculated decision of time vs judge/jury pool.
There’s also a good chance he’ll be charged in NJ for separate crimes regarding those documents since some of them were moved there. Separate case though.
Exactly. And so if anyone ever asks “Why weren’t Biden or Pence indicted?”, you’ll know the answer. They didn’t lie about their documents and they didn’t get in the way when the government took them back.
In case anyone is wondering, “Why was nobody charged for taking them?”, the answer is probably intent. Trump, Biden, and Pence could all claim that they weren’t responsible for removing the documents. But of those three, only one of them is on tape saying something like, “Yeah, I’ve still got these secret documents that I probably should have given back”. He’s the one they indicted.
I pick up stuff in the store all the time and look at the price and shake my head and put it back. There are so many things that just aren’t worth it anymore.
The point is that you shouldn’t be arrested for a thought crime just for dressing slutty. She wasn’t cought prostituting, she was cought with condoms and “dressed provocatively.” I feel like you only read the title.
She was arrested for manifestation of prostitution on May 17, 2013 after accepting a ride home from an undercover Phoenix police officer whom she had met at a bar. A few minutes after getting in the car, a police vehicle pulled up, and she realized she had been caught up in an anti-prostitution sting. That night, Jones was wearing a “black, tight-fitting dress,” the Phoenix police officer testified at trial. She was in an area known to have prostitution activity, he claimed, never mind that the arrest occurred near where Jones lived. A municipal court judge sentenced her to a month in jail.
I think getting a lift home resulting in a prostitution charge is pretty ridiculous.
I hear this a lot, but honestly, even a dead nazi is still, y'know, a nazi. It's good that they're dead, but you should definitely mutilate the corpse.
Hey that $3 buys me the ability to daydream about my life as a multimillionaire for a couple days, before I crash back to reality slightly less satisfied than before!
As much as everyone is willing to find anything disparaging for Florida, there’s more here to take away. California is in the same situation and ultimately every State will come to face this.
The underlying issue is climate change. Insurance bets long and with the climate changing on an almost yearly basis now, there isn’t a long game to play. If the various leaders of this planet do not act on this challenge the long term cost is only going to go up.
Florida and California are just the heralds, this IS ABSOLUTELY coming to every doorstep on this planet.
One major difference between Florida and California; Florida passed laws banning policies based on climate change. As in, the government there cannot plan for it, and insurers have to pretend it's not happening to operate in the state.
So the insurers have decided to pull out of the state completely.
The state government under DeSantis is telling Florida "this is normal" while streets melt and the world burns.
General Assembly had the authority to eliminate cash bail and replace it with a system in which people are detained pending trial only if they pose a threat to the public or are a flight risk.
The new jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing would be the third highest in U.S. history and will keep growing until someone wins. Ticket buyers have a chance at $1 billion paid out in yearly increments or a $516.8 million one-time lump sum before taxes.
You need to blow some, more a a psychological reward than anything. The problem is definitely not increasing your standard of living to unsustainable levels, it’s not mega yacht money, but you could have a nice boat.
There was a short story or thought experiment or something about this man who won a silk robe. To properly enjoy it he wanted to have a fancy tea served in a fancy pot. Then he wanted a nice chair to be in. It kept growing and growing. I don’t remember the details but it is definitely a good illustration of lifestyle inflation.
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