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Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
152
Registered: 07-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 06:32 pm: |   |
Found this article on my homepage when I booted up and thought "Hmm, it is so nice when they help the cops out."
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - A man showing off his OnStar system in his Cadillac Escalade found out the system worked too well. Ralph A. Gomez, 38, was being held Wednesday on $15,000 bond on charges of possession of an illegal narcotic within 1,000 feet of a church and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Gomez was showing off his OnStar system to his girlfriend, but the volume was set so low that he couldn't hear the OnStar operator. OnStar comes on many new General Motors vehicles and allows a customer to contact an OnStar representative in an emergency or to get directions.
If there is no response, OnStar contacts police.
That's what happened with Gomez on Friday night, Tom Clements, a spokesman for the St. Augustine Police Department, said Wednesday.
When police located Gomez' car, they determined there was no problem. But Clements said cocaine was clearly visible on the car's center console.
In addition to seizing $1,900 in the case, the Cadillac equipped with the OnStar system was also seized, Clements said.
There was no information available from Clements or the jail on whether Gomez has a lawyer.
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Sheila Schmidt
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
754
Registered: 05-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 06:48 pm: | |
A few years back when my son was in kindergarten, another kindergartener brought a vial of cocaine to school for show and tell. He got it off of mommy's dresser. What a pip that turned out to be!
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LA
Unity Member
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2173
Registered: 12-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 09:14 pm: | |
I have to wonder if Gomez is going to end up part of this year's Darwin Awards. What a hoot. (and an idiot!)
LA
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Cassandra Zaruba
Awareness Member
Post Number:
3
Registered: 12-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 03, 2006 - 03:43 pm: | |
I haven't been able to watch Jay Leno's Tonight Show in a while, but when I used to, I loved his "stupid criminals" segments that would pop up in the monologue. There's never a shortage of people like Gomez...
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Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
153
Registered: 07-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 09:37 am: | |
There use to be a show on late at night called America's Dumbest Criminals. My wife and I would stay up past all reason to watch it wvery week. then it was cancelled. When my brother graduated from the police acadamy (not the one with Steve Guttenburg) I found a book of the dumbest criminals and gave it to him. Se says real life is so much funnier. Within his first month he and several other officers responded to a fight in a parking lot. One of the "witnesses" was very vocal and kept trying to barge through the area the cops were working so an officer manhandled him to a squad car to explain to him proper edicit at these scenes. The guy's friend approached another cop and was screaming about police brutality. "I want that cops name." The officer looked at my brother who was thinking the same thing as the officer, every one of them has a namebadge on. So the cop responded sarcastically, "What, can't he read?" The friend looked satisfied and started walking away muttering, "Good, Kenny Reed, I'll remember that."
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