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Comment Skip the steel (Score 1) 1044

by januth on Thursday August 28, 2008 @07:35AM (#24777215) Attached to: Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap?

Go with a 6" SCH80 PVC pipe with well "welded" endcaps. Put a smaller pipe inside it, also sealed, with dessicant packs inside it. Seal the items in vacuum bags similar to food storage bags . Water is not going to get inside!

Submission + - DashCam Catches Officer Threatening Motorist

Submitted by januth on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @05:20PM

januth writes: I just finished reading about this incident, in which a St. George, Missouri police officer was caught on a motorist's personal dashcam threatening to invent charges to arrest him even though the motorist had done nothing wrong.

"The incident began at around 2am. Darrow [the motorist] was to meet a friend who was working late and was going to pick him up. Darrow headed toward a 24-hour commuter parking lot in an unincorporated part of Saint Louis County in his 1997 Nissan Maxima. He put on his turn signal and entered the lot which, aside from Kuehnlein's cruiser, was essentially vacant. After stopping the car, the police officer approached and began questioning Darrow about what he was doing. When Darrow declined to discuss his personal business, the police sergeant exploded. Although the video clearly shows Darrow driving properly and using his turn signal, the police officer insisted that Darrow had broken the law."

Had Darrow not had his own video camera running it would have been his word against the police officer's. He has had another interesting run-in with the police that he captured on video as well. In both cases he's merely asking the questions any citizen should be able to ask of a police officer. In both cases, the police do not respond well.

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