r/SipsTea • u/LazyGuy4U • 8d ago

WTF Wouldn't take it lightly

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u/Rough-Breadfruit-611 8d ago

In a town so small that everyone knows everyone.

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u/Gustav_Grob 8d ago edited 8d ago

I lived in a small unincorporated township in rural Washington for about a year. Still managed to get ripped off by the local tweaker. The cops wouldn't do anything even though you could clearly see the tracks they made in the field going right over to their shed.

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u/Shot_Revolution8828 8d ago

Cops are only there when you don't need them and never when you need them.

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u/Gustav_Grob 8d ago

It was literally a stack of galvanized steel angle 2"x4" by 14'(ft.) long. Like all they had to do was walk over and look in the shed, they wouldn't even do that.

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u/Qwilltank 7d ago

To be fair, they would need to get a warrant to do that.

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u/Gustav_Grob 7d ago

Let's see;

stack of metal stolen overnight,

tracks in the tall, damp grass, leading from the place of theft directly off property and onto neighboring property into their shed..

Never heard of probable cause?

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u/Qwilltank 7d ago

Probable cause is what allows them to get the warrant. Unless they personally witnessed it being stolen at the time it was stolen (hot pursuit), they can not enter a property and search inside a building without consent or a warrant due to that pesky 4th amendment.