seax fiend

7/21/14

I thought that too, until I got the worst case of food poisoning I've ever had, in Ecuador, at ... a KFC.

7/21/14

The least believable thing about this is that John Boyega could be a Stormtrooper. At 5'9", he's a little short.

7/9/14

Please, PLEASE tell me that this photo is real and not Photoshopped.

6/29/14

That's pretty much the distinction. If you ask the officer, "Am I free to go?," and s/he says, "no," but you're not yet in handcuffs or in the back of a patrol car, then you've been detained. Once the bracelets go on, they're reading your Miranda, and the back door shuts and locks, you're under arrest.

6/29/14

I'm not a lawyer or a cop, and despite the different ways these statutes appear on the books in over twenty states, I'd say yeah, you're probably right about that — although AZ is one of five states in which police may "explicitly impose an obligation to provide identifying information." Whether that means verbally or…

6/29/14

I mean, actually, the way the statute seems to be written in most states is, in a detention or "Terry" encounter, they're actually detaining you on the suspicion or knowledge that you've committed a crime; in Dr. Ore's case, that crime seems to have been jaywalking (made somewhat suspect by the other people in the…

6/29/14

In a "stop and identify" state, you're certainly free to leave your ID at home, but if you're stopped by a police officer in a detention encounter and fail to produce identification when they request it, they can (and will) arrest you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_…

6/29/14

There are, and Arizona is one of those states. The law isn't that you must carry your ID at all times, though; it's that, in a non-consensual "detention" encounter, you must provide ID if police request it, and if you fail to do so, they can arrest you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_…

6/27/14

Da fuq you tryin to say, kid? English: play that game.

6/24/14

Exactly what I was going to post. Well done, sir.

6/24/14