Service With a Smile
[Guest post by DRJ]
When a citizen makes a valid legal demand in Vail, Colorado, the Sheriff’s Department complies:
“The doormat wasn’t particularly welcoming to detectives who paid a visit to Charles Guadalupe’s Vail home.
Its message: “COME BACK WITH A WARRANT.”
“So we did,” Lt. Mike William of the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.”
Mr. Guadalupe was arrested on “two counts of distribution of cocaine and two counts of possession of cocaine” and there’s a photo of his doormat at the link.
– DRJ
I prefer to tell the cops to go get a warrant…. then start flushing the toilet and running the washing machine in the interim. Or is that too old school?
Maybe get a mat that has my lawyers name and phone number and “Mirandize me or STFU!” on it
Comment by SteveG — 3/5/2010 @ 5:20 pm
Would the door mat itself add to probable cause for a warrant?
Arrogance and foolishness seem to be partners, no matter what the “pay grade” is.
Comment by MD in Philly — 3/5/2010 @ 5:23 pm
That particular door mat is sold by Target.com.
Comment by Blacque Jacques Shellacque — 3/5/2010 @ 5:30 pm
“When Christmas gifts backfire…”
coming soon to Fox!
Comment by Gazzer — 3/5/2010 @ 6:05 pm
I know everyone here realizes this but, to clarify, the basis for the warrant was an informant’s tip, not the doormat.
Comment by DRJ — 3/5/2010 @ 6:51 pm
My dad would have loved that. He always instructed all the guys in his shop not to let OSHA in the door without a warrant.
Comment by Gesundheit — 3/5/2010 @ 7:27 pm
I have a stupid question: why didn’t the detectives have the warrant when they first got there?
My only guess is that maybe they were expecting to be let in without a warrant (until they saw the doormat), but that doesn’t seem right.
Comment by Alan — 3/5/2010 @ 10:03 pm
I have one of those doormats in the doorway to my office.
Comment by Dodd — 3/5/2010 @ 10:03 pm
I don’t know what business you are in, Dodd, but you’d get my money over the next guy any day of the week…
God I want one of those doormats.
Comment by Scott Jacobs — 3/5/2010 @ 10:28 pm
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Pingback by damnum absque injuria » Moron Criminal of the Day: Charles Guadalupe — 3/6/2010 @ 12:01 pm
Gentle snowflakes falling on aspen
dude with blow here in twenty minutes
Rocky Mountain high in Colorado
Comment by GeneralMalaise — 3/6/2010 @ 5:03 pm