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:eek::):dubious:;)has anyone here ever made one? or seen one? or heard of one?
is there really such a thing? you would think with all the media out there , there would’ve been at least one famous case of it
or is it just one of those things that everyone thinks exists, but really doesn’t, like a battlefield promotion?:smack:
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We have some this one many times and I think Cecil even did a column on it. You have to do a search for the past ones. Citizen’s arrest are a very real right with some restrictions. It would be insane f they weren’t allowed. Anyone can do them but the concept isn’t useful just for regular people. Security guards have to do citizen’s arrests as part of their job because they aren’t true law enforcement. Real law enforcement also needs them if they are out of jurisdiction but still need to intervene in a crime.
The basic requirements are that you have to stop a crime (usually a felony) in progress and detain the person in question with reasonable force only while the police arrive.
Battlefield promotions aren’t fake either BTW or at least they have been used during some wars.
Here you go. It’s a Staff Report, so not as definitive as one of Cecil’s columns, but it says that
Yeah, I took part in one a couple of years ago.
The son of a friend of my father received a battlefield promotion. He was an officer too.
This topic has been beaten to death several times here. The short answer is, you better be DAMNED SURE that the person you are arresting committed a crime requiring arrest - usually, it’s a VERY good idea that you personally witnessed the crime. It is very dangerous to your future and freedom to simply detain someone on someone else’s sayso.
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/legal-experts-want-citizens-arrest-law-to-empower-citizens-discourage-vigilantes/article1881550/?service=mobile
When I was a security guard, way back when, we were told to observe and report. Do not try to stop or manhandle anyone. You have nothing but a fake uniform. they could have anything, and could be crazy enough to use it. Observe, report, and leave it to the real police to use force. Usually, just yelling gets someone to stop what they are doing and run away, which was about as much as we could do.
Shoplifters caught in the act are generally asked to go to a room – managers office or security room and wait there for the arrival of the police. I’d guess that’s the most frequent form of citizen’s arrest. For a more dramatic example see the video in this news report.
so it’s really a citizen’s detention, not an arrest, because they don’t really arrest anyone
one of those phrases that doesn’t mean what it says
like paper clip…its not made of paper, its made of metal, it should be called a metal clip not a paper clip…or hot water heater, if the water’s hot there’s no need to heat it, so it should be a cold water heater or just a water heater
Sure, it is. Dictionary.com’s definition of “arrest”
Really? It’s a paper clip because it secures papers together…
Can’t link to it at work (maybe later when I get home) but there was a recent Cracked article on this topic.
This, perhaps?: 7 Steps to Making an Ill-Advised Citizen's Arrest | Cracked.com
Yep.
A device to heat cold water is called a water heater. Anyone calling it a hot water heater is misusing the phrase.
A hot water heater is a device that heats with hot water. If you’ve ever been in an old building with radiators, you’ve seen a hot water heater. The heater in your car runs hot water (well actually antifreeze) through a heater core - which is just a radiator and air blowing over the heater core is heated and used to heat the interior of the car.
If you call that cylinder in the basement of your house a hot water heater, you’re doing wrong.
Sorry for the hijack. But, it’s a pet peeve and I’m doing my best to fight ignorance here.
Yes. Paper Clip is not redundant in the way Frozen Tundra is.
But on some hot summer days the tundra gets warm and mushy, at least the top layer…
Hmmm. When that happens i believe it stops being tundra.
Only the subsoil remains frozen year round, the surface thaws.