{"id":35084,"date":"2017-09-06T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35084"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:45:06","slug":"traffic-stop-alleged-contraband-man-escapes-into-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35084","title":{"rendered":"Traffic stop. (Alleged) contraband. Man escapes–into Atlantic (Ocean)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was living on not a lot of sleep. It’s maybe impossible to belly laugh w\/o sleep.<\/p>\n

So today, here’s my Kevin and Lowering the Bar: belly laugh. (Full story at the link.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Lowering the Bar<\/h1>\n

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Bad Places to Hide: Atlantic Ocean<\/h2>\n

Sep 05, 2017 05:30 am | Kevin<\/h4>\n

\"\"Take everything I\u2019ve said before about trying to hide in or escape across bodies of water (see, e.g.<\/em>, \u201cPond\u00a0Ruins Yet Another Getaway<\/a>\u201d (May 24, 2016), \u201cPolice Wait Patiently for Man in Pond to Surrender<\/a>\u201d (July 24, 2014);\u00a0and \u201cSinking Pedal Boat Ends Ridiculous Escape Attempt<\/a>\u201d (Jan. 28, 2010)), multiply it by several orders of magnitude, and apply it to this case, in which the body of water was the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

Surf City, North Carolina, is on the western shore of that ocean, about 20 miles northeast of Wilmington. According to the\u00a0Port City Daily<\/em><\/a>, police there made a traffic stop somewhere near the beach, and spotted \u201ccontraband\u201d in the young man\u2019s vehicle. They asked him to get out and began to interrogate him. But shortly thereafter, he decided it might be better to flee, so he turned and ran.<\/p>\n

Into the ocean.<\/p>\n

Fleeing like this is never a great idea for a variety of reasons, and if they\u2019ve got your car and your license plate, etc., you probably won\u2019t be that difficult to track down anyway. But people in these situations often aren\u2019t thinking clearly. Which was probably the case here, or else he might have considered, let\u2019s say, the likelihood that police officers in Surf City will be equipped with boats. But he didn\u2019t consider that. He just started swimming.<\/p>\n

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