Associated Press affiliate KTAR-FM reports
[...] after 25-year-old Xavier Moran was involved in a crash on April 5, he told a sheriff's deputy he had been cut off by another driver and could prove it with his dashboard camera. He then signed a consent waiver to search the camera.
When the Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy reviewed the footage, he saw Moran burglarizing a beauty store. Authorities say the video showed Moran taking a baseball bat from the trunk and someone using the bat to break the glass door to the store.
He was arrested [April 10] on burglary charges.
Boing Boing further reports that the guy just can't stay out of trouble.
I first heard the story via NPR's "news" quiz show "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me".
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:56AM
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:58AM (4 children)
Do you find that talking to the police just isn't as exciting as it once was? Try consenting to police searches as well! Twice the fun and nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan!
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:13AM (1 child)
President Clinton, Bill Clinton, is a great friend of mine. I'm not even sure that he shouldn't have just gone in and taken the Fifth Amendment.
(Score: 4, Touché) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:01PM
> President Clinton, Bill Clinton, is a great friend of mine.
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
(Score: 4, Funny) by terrab0t on Tuesday May 01 2018, @12:07PM (1 child)
I was thinking the same thing. I would consult my lawyer and submit only the relevant dash cam footage in court.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday May 01 2018, @06:20PM
Talk with lawyer: Good.
Submit only partial footage: Bad.
The other side is probably going to want the entire original recording media. Not something extracted and potentially edited. They, and their experts get access to the evidence while a full copy is made in the presence of both sets of lawyers.
If all you want to present is an "edit" or extracted portion, this instantly raises lots of thorny questions. Did you edit this? How do I know you didn't edit it? I want this video evidence thrown out of court... through the 3rd floor window. Motion to strike... the plaintiff! Etc.
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Personal experience. I once co-wrote a Mac program called Timbuktu. Just over a decade later I was contacted by victims of a patent troll. I was able to provide them with an unopened shrinkwrap original package of the product that was collecting dust in my attic. This was a product advertised and sold commercially long before the patent troll's supposed invention. The troll's patent was internally inconsistent in mutually-exclusive contradictory ways. I shipped it registered mail to the defense lawyers as instructed -- not to the defendants or plaintiffs. Both sets of lawyers and experts would open the package together and make copies of the documentation and disks. Despite the sentimental value of the original shrinkwrap package, I didn't mind them opening it considering the amount of money I was receiving as an expert witness. Even more if this were to go to trial. Which it didn't. Funny how bullies cave. Finally, some months later, they returned my original product and box intact, except for shrinkwrap. Now collecting more dust.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:07AM
Thank you to the incredible Law Enforcement Officers from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. They keep us safe and are very cool about it! pic.twitter.com/NlhxpPwmzT [t.co]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Spamalope on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:46AM
Well, it's not like petty theft is the act of someone who thinks through the consequences and can weigh the merits and downsides of a plan well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @07:00AM (3 children)
Not that we do "news for Nerds", but this sure ain't it. Are we saying that a dash-cam makes it tech? Fox News level article.
(Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:00AM (1 child)
But we sometimes do humour. True, this is not in the strict definition of STEM, but it is under the 'Random' topic. Smile and move on to the next story.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:43AM
Yup...some people have their asses screwed on too tight!
Time to laugh!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday May 01 2018, @12:37PM
This is one for World's Dumbest Criminals. If he'd managed to kill himself somehow, he'd be a Darwin Award nominee.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday May 01 2018, @09:58AM (6 children)
Allow me to put on my pendant's hat but shouldn't that be "burgling?" Or even bungling.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:01AM (1 child)
Unless you're swinging from a rope, that should be your pedant's hat.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:14AM
ACs these day... Would they allow anyone to indulge in hatted pendantry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:10AM (3 children)
Your understandarizing of the 'English-language-as-a-live-process' is sufferizing; the language is evolvarizing, mate, all the time!
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:23AM (2 children)
Trans: U misunder lang ruls, its alwa evolving*
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @12:04PM (1 child)
Oh, gosh... it evolved again! How fast!
I'm afraid to go to sleep now, what if tomorrow morning I won't be able to understand anything on S/N?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:32PM
Very evolv!
Much impress!
Wow!
(Score: 5, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:24PM (1 child)
Florida Man, Florida Man, does whatever Florida man can, buys an orange, saves it for later, goes to jail for fucking a gator, oh yeah look out for the Florida man...
Florida man, Florida man, Does whatever a meth head can!
https://thevalleyreport.com/2016/02/13/florida-man-dies-in-meth-lab-explosion-after-lighting-farts-on-fire/ [thevalleyreport.com]
(Score: 2) by AssCork on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:38PM
"Strikes a match, meth lab wins"
"Florida man, Florida mannnnnnn"
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Tuesday May 01 2018, @03:01PM
And regularly doing more burglaries... Maybe you should STFU and go home. Otherwise if you're a productive member of society then you're fine.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:12PM
I really don't see much of a problem here.
1. Don't mindlessly consent to search if you do stupid shit
2. Justice was served. He was exonerated of the accident using the dash cam footage and arrested for burgling.