It's been less than two weeks since Miami-Dade County announced it would be fining people for not wearing masks in public. Already, Florida media outlets are filled with stories of people cited for wearing masks improperly, lowering masks to sip a drink, or removing their face coverings once outside of a store.
On Thursday, the Miami Herald reported that the Miami-Dade Police Department has issued 162 citations for violating the county's mandatory mask ordinance, which comes with a $100 penalty.
One woman, Johanna Gianni, says she removed her mask in the parking lot of a Publix grocery store in North Miami Beach, when a police officer approached her and wrote her a ticket for not wearing a mask. Gianni told the Herald the parking lot was nearly empty and that she felt set up by police.
She's not the only one.
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-Stormfax
So this was just a new revenue stream for Miami-Dade after all.
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me that the dumb bitch that wrote this ordnance is going to encounter dead cats on her doorstep soon.
Dude, leave the cats out of this. Theres plenty of pesos you could use instead.
DeleteThis is just some of the shit that make people hate police. They better listen up and get wise.
ReplyDeleteLast week in Holland: 14 kids were playing a pickup soccer game and were each fined 100 Euro.
ReplyDeleteBefehl ist Befehl.
Get used to it here in the US.
Don't wear a mask here in Moscow on the Lower Colorado (aka Austin) and no one give me shit about it. Then again I have not shaved since mid March when all this shit started and I'm 6'4" and look like Grizzly Adams. If they do, I tell them I have a MEDICAL EXCEPTION and that ends it even for the Karens. I have not started and I'm not going to. There's going to be a lot of sick and fucked up people from wearing these bacteria diapers, the same one for weeks. LOL
ReplyDeleteIn high school there was a guy who made up a pad of tickets. It looked pretty real but we were in print shop together and saw him make them.
ReplyDeleteHe tried to pass himself off as a junior cop as he wrote people tickets for whatever the hell. He actually would recite the Penal Code as he wrote tickets. And if you laughed at him, which I certainly did and many others too, he threatened detainment and arrest. I guess there more than one of him and they have now grown up. Imagine how they squeal with delight for living the dream. To everyone else it's a dystopian nightmare.
I wonder if they really believe they are impervious to getting their shit handed to them in a bucket. It wouldn't take hardly any effort to compile a full dossier on them, their families, their residence, their behaviors, etc.
The world is filled with petty tyrants that once given a little bit of authority assume that they are near dictators. "You WILL obey my AUTHORITY or you will suffer."
ReplyDeleteSadly south east Florida has more than their share of these petty tyrants.
So close to Cuba you would expect south east Florida to be a little smarter about this.
DeleteNah, it’s all the people from New York and New Jersey. They’re accustomed to living in a police state and bring that stuff with them when they move south. The Gulf Coast of Florida is a whole different state.
DeleteSo, if you piss off your population, officer, who ya gonna call when antyphus gathers, hooting, on your front lawn?
ReplyDeleteIf your brass is pushing this idiocy, mebbe another department is looking for officers?
Metro has never changed
ReplyDeleteMask revenue generators are like the "50mph zone drops to a 25mph zone in 30feet around a curve" speed traps of 50 years ago.
ReplyDeleteNo, the mask law is more like the stupid seat belt law that has been the #1 money maker for cop shops over the past 30 years.
DeleteAnd anyone who defies me with some account how seat belts save lives, prove it. What saves lives is not driving like an idiot. I began driving at 9 years old and I am 73 now. Seat belts never did shit for me except piss me off. people in this country have been driving for way more years with no belts and they did fine.
"Seat belts never did shit for me except piss me off"
DeleteThat is because you have been lucky to not have been in an accident where a seat-belt may have saved your life. I don't like to be told what to do, but I have come to realize that it's safer to wear one than not. I am 77. "It's a fool who never changes his mind." - Desmond Ford
Ask for a jury trial........jury nullification.
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It's Miami... Need I say more?...
ReplyDeleteremember the cop from up in Seattle, Anderson if I remember right, who said that enforcing these sorts of laws was undermining the confidence people have in the police?
ReplyDeletethe sheer joy in which these cops are enforcing these laws doesn't help them. at all.
Ahhh, leave it to politicians to empower the police to make money off of the Egg Roll flu.
ReplyDeleteThey never disappoint
one would think that a rather small minority of the entire american population (all types of security officers number less than 4 million) who are already hated by half the population. (commies, antifa, democrats, but I repeat myself) would not want to go making the other half hate them too. I know, crazy thought and all.
ReplyDeleteNothing to do with health
ReplyDeleteRemember this well ... when they come with hand out to bail out their insolvent public pension systems.
ReplyDeletePolicing for profit. Who'da thunk?
ReplyDeleteAnd the police wonder why we hate them...
ReplyDeleteI generally support the police for the work they do, however cops that enforce this kind of shit can be hit in the head with a skate board anytime would be good.
ReplyDeleteIf cops want support of the people then do not harass the people ... stick to criminals.
I grew up in Florida. I'm looking forward to seeing the new film "Greenland", where Central Florida takes an asteroid hit.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Florida. I'm looking forward to seeing the new film "Greenland", where Central Florida takes an asteroid hit.
ReplyDeleteGood luck collecting the money, especially when you send the ticket to Phil McKrackin, 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA (the State House). Phone number for contact tracing: 617-722-2000.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind masking up in the Home Depot, grocery store or anywhere else I have to be around a bunch of people _indoors_. Outdoors is a whole different deal, and Miami has gone off the fucking deep end here.
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