As a man who has been caught speeding once myself (by a mobile speed camera ... curses!!) ......
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I have some (not much, but some), sympathy with Joseph Talbot of Wayne County New York.
In December 2016 he had been arrested for drunk driving (DUI) after
State Police received a report of a driver swerving on Route 31 in
Palmyra NY. The state trooper found the vehicle, swerving over the
centre line and onto the hard shoulder of the road, where it was finally
bought to a halt.
He refused a roadside pre-screen breath test, and when they got to the
police station Mr Talbot also refused to give a station breath test to
determine his blood alcohol level. He called the trooper an 'asshole', and he refused to have his fingerprints taken, and resisted having a mug shot taken, as it would be in that “rag” (The Wayne County Times). He was a bank Vice President in Palmyra and complained that the state trooper, and the paper would ruin his family.
Following Mr Talbot’s refusal to be processed, he was additionally
charged with misdemeanour Obstruction of Governmental Administration in
the 2nd Degree, along with the DUI and traffic violations. Talbot was
arraigned and remanded to jail (where he had no right to refuse being
processed), on $750 cash/$1500 bond, to reappear in Palmyra Town Court on
February 1st. He was also issued an appearance ticket for Lyons Town
Court on the Obstruction charge.
However, the 12,000-circulation Times of Wayne County, obtained a
mugshot from the county jail, and printed it along with a story on the
following Saturday.
Talbot then followed the local delivery van on Saturday morning, and
bought up around 900 newspapers in the Newark area, at $1.25 per copy.
The cunning ploy failed, the paper restocked all the Newark News stands, and the
story went viral after being picked up by US and International news media (mainly because of the paper buying exploit) .... Mr Talbot refused to give any one a comment (especially that "Rag", the Wayne County Times).
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