Woman Gets $100 Ticket for BUSHIT Bumpersticker

[Nomad559]

http://progressive.org/mag_mc032706

Denise Grier is a nurse at Emory University hospital in Georgia. On March 10, she was driving home from dinner when a Dekalb County police officer pulled her over.

At least initially, I was just surprised because I hadn’t done anything wrong,” she says. When he approached the car, he had his hand on his weapon, and I was in my nurse’s uniform with a stethoscope around my neck. He asked for my license, and then said, ‘Any idea why I stopped you.’

I said no.

You have a lewd decal on your car.

[Warpy]

1. She needed to tell him to get his mind out of the gutter

because there is nothing lewd about a bumpersticker that says "Bushit."

Better he should go after truckers with nude Barbie doll sillhouettes on their mud flaps. Now those are lewd. And insulting.

[TomInTib]

2. And then there's her son...

Last year, she says her 20-year-old son was pulled over in Athens, Georgia, for having a bumpersticker that said, “Bush sucks. Dick Cheney too.”

She says the police officer told her son, “If you do not remove the bumpersticker, I’m taking you to jail.”

So he removed it.

“He thought it was kind of funny,” she says, though she told him she would rather go to jail than take her bumpersticker off.



Athens is a beautiful place and probably has an OK jail. I would have called the prick's bluff.

[pstans]

3. That is horrible

[Redstone]

4. Someone want to send this to the ACLU?

I bet they'd have a field day with those ignorant cops.

Redstone

[BootinUp]

5. They beat you to it. :)

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Gerry Weber, the legal director of the ACLU of Georgia, is representing Grier. “The indicators are that the officer didn’t like her views of President Bush and that was the motivating factor,” he says.
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[guruoo]

7. They have

From the story:
'Gerry Weber, the legal director of the ACLU of Georgia, is representing Grier. “The indicators are that the officer didn’t like her views of President Bush and that was the motivating factor,” he says.

Weber says the ticketing was clearly illegal.

He says the Georgia Supreme Court struck down the “lewd bumpersticker” statute way back in 1991, in a case involving a defendant who had a “Shit Happens” bumpersticker.

This shouldn’t keep happening 15 years later, he says.

After the criminal case is over, Weber says he and Grier may file a civil rights claim.'

[Redstone]

9. Well, good. Thanks to you and Jim4Wes for pointing it out.

I get the feeling those cops are going to be sorry.

Redstone

[sce56]

6. I wish Jon Stewart would do a interview with her on TDS

Any one know how to get him interested in this subject?

[orleans]

8. damn! at first i thought she had a support W bumper sticker

and the cop was telling her it was lewd. and i thought "wow--georgia!" and then i read the article and thought: figures!