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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 18 2015, @09:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the next-time-send-it-to-the-chief dept.

According to The Guardian:

The unnamed woman, a resident of Petrer in Alicante, south-east Spain, posted the photo on her Facebook page with the comment "Park where you bloody well please and you won't even be fined".

The police tracked her down within 48 hours and fined her.

Apparently, this is allowed in Spain so that police can "avenge their dishonor".

This is exactly the sort of behavior that leads to public distrust of police.

This story is a new take on online liberties in Spain:

A woman in Spain has been fined €800 (£570) [$886] after she took a picture of a police car parked in a disabled bay. She fell victim to a controversial new gagging law in the the country that prohibits 'the unauthorised use of images of police officers that might jeopardise their or their family's safety or that of protected facilities or police operations.'

Spanish story (more elaborate) here

I'd add a snarky comment here, but everything I came up with is just trolling.
Summing up my feelings: Spanish police: SRSLY, WTF?!


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @01:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @01:17PM (#224394)

    Well you make mighty big assumptions in your response. I will admit that I am not familiar with the law in Spain, but you make no such claim either. So if their law does specifically say that they can park wherever they want to, does it make difference to your argument? That was merely the point I had. And even if there is no such law that says specifically that they can park wherever they damn please, so long as there is no law to the opposite I would think it was pragmatic to extend that privilege to them. But yes they should stand in line, which is fine since I know if they do get a call their car is parked right outside and they can get right in. Same for firefighters. Firefighters doing grocery shopping for their firehouse often do so with the firetruck parked right outside the store and they have their radio with them. I seen them leave a full cart of groceries and run out and drive off. Would a reasonable person expect them to put all those back before they go? Or to back out of a tight parking spot with a 30 foot ladder truck? Doubtful.

    It should also be noted that emergency lights can only be used in an emergency. And only certain types of emergencies warrant using the siren in addition to the lights. Cops are not pre-cognitive individuals, and if they were they wouldn't use the lights to park because they knew they would go somewhere in a hurry in a few minutes, they would already be on the way there.

    And in regards to the doctor claim, yes in fact doctor's time is more valuable than yours. You get that distinct feeling every time you go to one and wait 30 minutes to see him for 5 minutes.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:25PM (#224530)

    > And in regards to the doctor claim, yes in fact doctor's time is more valuable than yours. You get that distinct feeling every time you go to one and wait 30 minutes to see him for 5 minutes.

    Whenever someone thinks a non sequitur is relevant to their point, you know they have a very poor grasp of the argument.