Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

  1. The way the law is written, every car that has its key removed when parked should be impounded. After all, you cannot safely operate most cars and trucks without their key. Perjury and willful falsification of official documents under color of law used to be a crime, now it's business as usual. Well, unless we do it, then prosecution begins.
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  2. I dunno, nothing ever happened before, so honestly, it sounds as though the sheriff's office is heavily overfunded. So, how many arrests did the sheriff make the following night, when it was dark out and actually dangerous? Did he arrest the entire town for attending a pagan festival and vagrancy?
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  3. So, is he going to arrest weather forecasters and economists? Futures traders? Or is he only going to arrest witches?
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  4. I was denied housing by a realtor who relied upon some commercial background check service that entirely fails in due diligence. Worse, she decided to tell me of the denial at high volume, across a crowded busy office, then when I objected, continue her justification at high volume, attempting for maximum embarrassment. The reason, "You have a record". My objection, "I hold a security clearance, the US government isn't in the habit of issuing security clearances to criminals". The crime, I inherited property from my father, who hoarded construction supplies and right after inheriting the property, I was fined over it. The court immediately dismissed the charge and that was the end of it. By the time I left, I was quite irritated. So, it being a military town and I being retired military, expressed a grave concern with the local base command over the risk to our service members morale and welfare, due to that business' practices. The business was promptly blacklisted by post housing and the business declared off limits to military personnel. For some odd reason, said business had grave difficulties in finding rental customers, what with losing 85% of their clientele. To morons, a dismissed case is equal to a conviction, "because you were accused". Sorry, by McCarthy is long dead, he drank himself to death after losing office, after losing faith and trust with his unamerican activities. And I do willingly admit to a character flaw. I am a very, very, very vindictive man.
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  5. When a law professor says outright that it was a stupid defense, it's a seriously stupid assed defense that rightfully got one fired.
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  6.  @TheGrobe  that worked in France quite well, right until those masters got to meet the National Razor.
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  7. Definitely not a hit and run, which typically isn't covered.
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  8. The psychic friends network, of course.
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  9. As near as I can tell, this company is basically declaring that making a profit is illegal. I hope that discovery is both fruitful and highly illuminating, so that at a minimum, the investors are hated nationwide and if foreign, lose out on the entirety of their investment in land around a US airbase.
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  10. There is only one time it's ended well, when I was at the store and was picking up a jar of honey for a reasonable price.
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  11. U-Haul is nothing but fraudulent all around. Had problems after renting one of their trucks, with all manner of fanciful charges attempted to be added and money seized without notice from my debit card under an oddly named business traced back to them. Bank clawed the money back after investigating, which speaks volumes as well.
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  12. Abuse of office and assorted state official misconduct criminal charges should also be filed against her, just to discourage other public officials from abusing their own official positions.
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  13. She had the option of finding a cheaper place to shop, just walk there. While at sea. Yeah, the court recognized that and addressed it.
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  14. Yeah, then and now, that behavior is not tolerated at all and rightfully so. And every senior NCO does know better! A dumb ass way to lose a pension.
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  15.  @themidsouthcyclist8880  not totally garbage, we still see people getting arrested for trying to trade nuclear weapons designs. But, the onus is great before the court will countenance prior restraint beyond matters of national security. Here, there's a different issue and given the accused declined to appear before the court, a summary judgement was issued for violations of the Copyright Act, as well as several communications and computer crime acts. But, the court exceeded jurisdiction into international realms when ordering the take-down of any .tv domain, which belongs to the sovereign nation of Tuvulu. I'm also dubious of a national order, as well as the significant onus of requiring significant labor and equipment being provided with no compensation of the independent ISP businesses, as well as the order going far beyond the jurist's district and circuit. Or we could go to war with Tuvulu and have the US Navy report back that they couldn't find the island. ;) That last is a joke, as courts cannot order us to go to war, that belongs to Congress or an emergency use of force declaration by the POTUS and authorized by Congress under the War Powers Act.
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  16. I remember the exact same argument being made for registration and insurance for those new fangled high speed 10 speed bicycles. And the questions were asked, how many mass casualty accidents occurred with the bikes and when are we insuring and registering fucking shoes? Amazingly, the message got across to the politicians, no need for pitchforks, torches or fence rails and tar...
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  17. There's a truism in the employment world. Employees don't quit a job, they quit a shitty management organization.
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  18. When I came back to the US from our base in the Middle East, I had idiots threaten to have me deported. I then looked at the creature with contempt and asked in my finest South Philly accent, "To where, South Philly, jack-off?!". Universally, they wandered off before I could bite the other cheek. While I remarked loudly how the idiot wanted to deport me back to the very city our Constitution was written in to witnesses. Suffice it to say, there was much mirth. Karen vs US Army NCO, it's always Karen 0.
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  19. And homes.
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  20.  @BobDobbs681  been there, done that, sat in the dark. My question in the meeting afterward, "What happened to the monthly generator tests?", management looked dumbfounded and claimed to have never heard of such a thing. The facility supervisor countered, "Yeah, everywhere I ever worked at those tests!". We had prime power, a building UPS and generators. The building UPS at the time had a literal room full of batteries, all failed and were ignored. I tacked that onto my weekly information assurance report and given that all war communications went through that building, the batteries suddenly got budgeted in and replaced. After a month of reporting the failed batteries...
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  21. In EMS, we call that a significant mechanism of injury.
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  22. I've gone into areas to fix a PC that had alarms go off. I did one thing that I didn't have to do, called the responsible party and let them know that an alarm was going off. Most times, I was thanked and told they were aware of it and it was being fixed, a few times, they weren't aware and dashed down to investigate. The only time I might consider disconnecting power is if the damned thing was on fire and that, on the way to trigger the fire alarm.
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  23. Yes, he could have defended himself from armed robbery, then been the subject of an armed and dangerous manhunt, be labeled on the news as a disturbed cop killer veteran and at best, go on trial for assassination of law enforcement officers, at worst, gunned down in a one sided "exchange of fire", the keys or cell phone being muzzle flashing like a gun. You can do loads of things, most won't exactly pan out very well.
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  24. But, it strengthens the notion that safety deposit boxes are illegal and subject to being searched and seized upon mere whim, if a box in the same vault is searched, due to god-cop syndrome. I'll store my important documents with a thermite charge, just for security. If I can't be secure in my papers and person, I can at least eliminate one of the two I'm no longer allowed.
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  25. I can imagine it well, "Well, we have procedures". Well, there are other procedures that involve pine tar and feathers...
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  26.  @Sartre_Existentialist  the courts said otherwise, that it was never legal, as it can never be legal for a mere law or Act to overturn the Constitution. Otherwise, we'd literally no longer have a Constitution or government. Laws are empowered under the Constitution, not the converse. If a state passed a summary execution law and immediately enforced police extrajudicial executions in the street, the state would still end up liable for the violations of citizens rights when challenged for damages by the executed parties families and estates. Your claim of an affirmative defense is, "well, despite it being unconstitutional and hence invalid, it was legal" and being invalid, it's by definition born unlawful due to its unconstitutionality. When considering rights, it's sometimes easier to substitute another right in the place of the one one is arguing over. In the above example, substituting property for life, both being inherent right to possess things. I've used it in second amendment arguments, where some insist that that right, "like all rights" is unrestricted, so I substituted free speech and showed a half dozen common limitations upon the right of free speech, including no right to engage in sedition, conspiracy, fraud and defamation, to name a few I'd start out with. They usually depart the field with "your a commie". Apparently, Constitutionalists being communists in their odd world view.
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  27.  @Tugela60  he obviously has valid citizenship or they'd not have given a US Navy sonarman his TS clearance to operate his own console.
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  28.  @simonmultiverse6349  incarcerated and drugged with medications he didn't need.
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  29. Largely, because we won't allow the French National Razor.
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  30. It'd be viable for a business where I am, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, to write the judge and politely tell him to pound sand, as we're not under his or her jurisdiction and hence, the order is null and void in our circuit. It comes down to jurisdiction, this only holds for those under the jurisdiction of the 2nd circuit at best, SDNY at minimum. Even if they were under the jurisdiction, the costs in man hours would be fairly significant and they don't control the top level domain controllers, of which there are currently 1589, most of which are foreign or in the US, still outside of that circuit and district. So, there are several options available to someone under the jurisdiction of the court. Comply as they can and risk contempt, shut down operations or refuse to comply due to the labor cost being insanely high, as they'd need to build their own Great Firewall of China to block the traffic ordered blocked. Even backbone providers couldn't quite manage compliance with that order without literally breaking the internet and putting thousands of man hours and millions of dollars in equipment in place just to comply with that order. Which means, next month, as today, I can easily still access that site that I've never heard of. And despite multiple national courts orders, Pirate Bay still is around, under at least a dozen top level domains that are outside of the authority of those courts.
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  31. Forcing one's way in and refusing to leave is a foolproof way to get shot in a castle doctrine state.
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  32.  @darrennew8211  no, but they are claiming privacy to protect themselves in a deficient manner from their willing participation in fraudulent activity involving the USPS. Which is a felony. And the courts won't view a privacy claim on discovery very kindly.
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  33.  @wholeNwon  just far less amenable to being trained. Getting them to clean their room is like getting wild horses to clean up their shit. No, the horses are more easily trained.
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  34.  @williammielenz3752  this is why learning how to pick locks is only the beginning of the journey. And why having enough psych courses to allow you to know the answers expected in their testing is rather important. If you fuck up the test, at least you'll know enough to be able to pick the lock. I highly recommend using windshield wiper blade inserts for the source metal for making one's own picks.
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  35. As far as I'm concerned, any municipality that allows an HOA to exist is nearly as bad as the worst HOA around and should be actively avoided to the point of shunning.
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  36. Honest, ossifer, the building swerved into my path and stopped suddenly! Damned shelf drwiving car...
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  37.  @danielboone8435  having sat on several civil case juries, I'd decidedly not award a dollar, save if there's a shit ton of zeroes on the right and quite distant from the one, the decimal point. As a hint, I'm sure that she always wanted to own her own rental car company.
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  38. Given that the music was approved by the school administration and part of the game's program of activities, it's literally as if the officer ordered the team off of the field in the middle of the last play of the game.
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  39. I says we sendsa Guido and Giuseppe over to have a talk at them, make 'em an offa they canna refuse.
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  40. Not until litigation got filed that the insurance company would be unlikely to want to defend. They'll next seek an out of court settlement that admits no wrongdoing...
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  41. Or even better, an armored car.
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  42. So, the defense attorney is still in prison? Nobody did anything about it, so there won't be a trial that Steve talked about, right? Or do you mean that nobody showed up with a militia and machine gunned everyone concerned down? Here's a life lesson for you. You can do things a fast and easy way and they'll fall apart every time or one can do things the right way, which takes time and effort and those things will be lasting. And things with courts take time. First, the trial of the accused has to be completed, then the defense attorney has to have his trial, then if acquitted in the latter, the misbehavior of the jurist then is reported up to the superior courts as appropriate for disciplinary action. No magical thunder from above, no Harry Potter waving his fuck stick, but a step by step legal process that is properly followed at every step, in deliberate and sober actions. Otherwise, we don't have the rule of law, we have the lawlessness of the mob.
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  43. I'm reminded of the beginning of the film "Cool Hand Luke", not that I'd suggest anything unlawful...
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  44. The joys of when they go cheap developer for their apps, vs using a good developer. :/ In the end, cheap ends up always costing a hell of a lot more.
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  45. In EMS and also in law enforcement, that is a significant mechanism of injury. It's a high energy collision. Dereliction of duty, for starters against the cop and well, if the department doesn't even find a reasonable standard of care, then hold the department fiscally responsible for massive punitive damages. Maybe when the taxpayers see their tax bills increase exponentially, they'll insist upon proper policing, rather than thuggery and negligence being the standard.
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  46. One word. Expired.
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  47. Once posted, it's on state laws on what one can do. At a minimum, it's trespassing, aggravated if he opened a secured gate. In my state, well, we're castle doctrine and stand your ground. So, holding the trespasser while awaiting law enforcement and a tow truck is allowed. A quality padlock should suffice, force that and it's willful destruction of property and evading law enforcement.
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  48. They'd have hated me as a jurist. "So long and thanks for all the fish, now come back when you have actual reasonable suspicion, chucklehead".
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  49. Military EOD dogs get rewarded after a search, positive or negative, to avoid that potential bias.
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  50. Got slammed with a debit card fraud ring when I hit the Harrisburg area. Turned out the tools went and got keys to all the gas station dispensers and installed their own card readers inside. They now have a nice place to stay, three squares a day and secure sleeping quarters with fine steel bars. Took two weeks and spare change to fix my account, went a bit hungry for a bit. As for getting carded, been there, done that. I'm 61, so I'm, erm, turning blonde. ;) Getting carded is rather comical now. Never got carded when I was 16, so go figure. But, fines are real and stores are sensitive about self inflicted injuries. Annoyances happen in life. Just talk to your kids. :P Can't talk to my wife, she died last year after 41+ years of CMH winning duty. Yeah, I'm a veteran, who isn't of our generations?
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