This guy was arrested and jailed without bond for failing to complete his stucco and decorative rock siding home renovation project to the satisfaction of "city leaders" who say they "had no choice but to enforce the law."
He was released after two days, but was required to submit to electronic monitoring:
In Dakota County, that process requires participants — no matter what their crimes -- to blow into a drug and alcohol device every time an alarm goes off.“They could call me at 2 in the morning and they did,” Faber said.
Using common sense necessitates discrimination. This is why we must have standard operating procedures for everything from bank lending to invading a foreign country. If we don't have standards, it means someone somewhere may be exercising human judgment which would be intolerable. The next thing you know, the King of England would be telling us what color socks to wear.
Posted by: jhglassman at March 22, 2012 05:58 PM