cymbergaj
31.03.06, 17:53
Woman ticketed for 'BUSHIT' sticker
An Athens, Georgia woman was recently ticketed by a jack-booted thug as she
drove home from work. Her offense? Lewd decals, an offense that doesn't
exist.
Denise Grier, a nurse at Emory University hospital, was headed home on the
evening of March 10 when she saw the flashing lights of one of DeKalb
County's finest.
Uncertain of what she had done wrong, Grier pulled over.
"When he approached the car, he had his hand on his weapon, and I was in my
nurse's uniform with a stethoscope around my neck. He asked for my license,
and then asked, 'Any idea why I stopped you?'
"I said no.
"'You have a lewd decal on your car.'"
She immediately assumed that she was the victim of some shenanigan being
perpetrated by her children.
What had caught the officer's eye though was a bumper sticker that read "I'm
tired of all the BUSHIT." Other stickers on her car included a crossed-
out "W" and "Hillary 2008."
At first Grier, 47, tried to argue whether or not the sticker was in fact
lewd. She soon realized it was pointless.
"I'm not going to discuss this any further. Just give me the ticket," Grier
told the officer. She then promised they would meet in court.
The ticket is for $100 and under "offense" it says "Lewd decals."
Georgia's Supreme Court struck down a "lewd bumper sticker" law in 1991,
after a defendant with a "Shit Happens" bumper sticker took the their case to
court.
Even so, the DeKalb County Police Department had nothing to say about Grier's
ticket.
"We don't comment on other officers' tickets," says Officer Herschel
Grangent, who handles media affairs. "That officer is making his decision on
the street. And it's going through legal channels now."
This is actually the second time the Grier family has run afoul of the law
for sporting a partisan sticker on their car. Last year Grier's 20-year-old
son was pulled over for a bumper sticker that said, "Bush Sucks Dick. Cheney
Too."
The cop gave him the choice of removing the sticker or going to jail. The
young Grier opted for the former.
In a letter to Flagpole.com Grier expressed her fears over what she says is a
pattern in this once-free land of ours.
"I am of the belief that I was ticketed for my political beliefs and not any
sense that I was offending the public with my lewd decal. Be outraged ... it
seems this is happening all over the country. Bush is out to abolish our
civil rights ... one at a time."
Grier is scheduled to go to court on April 18.
