What a rude awakening!

Saw this in my morning paper - poor woman!

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Yikes, I thought it was going to be a story about marshmallows stuffed in her bra!

You have to wonder, why the shackles? It's scary to think of a person treated that way for this type of infraction.

Kathy

Leg shackles??? Give me a break....what would they do for the guy wanted for murder!?!

How embarassing for her.

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Poor woman. How unfortunate!

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I read about that, It boggles the mind.

Amazing! I'm so neurotic that I always worry stuff like this will happen to me. Especially when there is a police car behind me.

Good thing she didn't somehow have this happen IN Mexico! YIKES!!

They would cuff her but no leg shackles. The want her to walk and not have to be carried.

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I read about this story on the Carnival board. Many over there think there out to be a law suit with free cruises for life! IMO, the cruiseline has nothing to do with this in compliance with the law.

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Something is very wrong with this story. I have just retired from the 3rd largest Sheriff's Departmaent in the U.S. and had served as the commander of the Criminal and Fugitive Warrant Division for 15 years. There is a Uniform Criminal Extradidion Act adopted by all states, and it expressly prohibits the extradition of some one for a fine only offense, and therefore it is against Federal policey for one of those "warrants" to be entered into the Federal Wanted Persons Database. (NCIC) If in fact that is all there is to the story, someone in the Law Enforcement loop just may have a major problem. I am surley glad that I don't work for the demanding, or remanding agency.

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Timmy,

It was entered by the federal park service, so state laws didn't apply. (It's still idiodic though)

Now the fact that they entered it after she had paid the fine..... that should be a lot more criminal than forgetting to put away your marshmallows.

BigDave

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When I read this I thought - Oh my God the poor woman and then - what about Canadians that cross into the US, wonder if they have any records of us. Not that I have anything to worry about, as far as I know. She obviously thought she had nothing to worry about either.

They don't give the age of the lady but this is one reason lots of Senior Citizens won't leave home!

Read again - 32 years old

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They don't give the age of the lady but this is one reason lots of Senior Citizens won't leave home!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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Now the fact that they entered it after she had paid the fine..... that should be a lot more criminal than forgetting to put away your marshmallows.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Big Dave: And we all know doodoo runs down hill. It probably was a clerk at the bottom of the totem pole that made the mistake. They should have a check and balance system and have more than one person verifying the entered information. It makes it all worse because of the underlying offense. I'm still shaking my head.

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I guess this is a "waking" for those who have fines they haven't paid based on principle. Still it's a bit extreme how it was handled.

Maureen

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I WOULD BE LOOKING FOR A LITTLE MORE THAN AN APOLOGY....poor lady

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There will be a lawsuit without question. It is not the cruiseline, but rather the government that will be paying. It's not a big case, however. Carnival could get some good publicity if they gave her some freebies.

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That was a sad story. Now what I want to know is how they will compensate her? What recourse does she have? Will she get her money back? Someone needs to be held accountable.

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Okay, I know there are a lot of lawyers who read these boards, so let's hear it from someone in the know - what recourse against the Feds, if any, does this woman have?

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