Hidden in this story, which has a positive result of finding a fugitive murder, we have this disingenuous nugget:
On Sunday, a police officer in Eureka, Mo., was randomly running license plates in a Days Inn Motel parking lot when the officer came across Newman’s vehicle.
Mmm-hmm. Somehow, I think the fact that this officer was in the parking lot of a motel running the plates diminishes the “randomness” of it, and I would question his sample size–I suspect it was less random than thorough in the selection of plates to run.
Otherwise, it sounds a little totalitarian, does it not? Stay in Eureka, and the police will know who you are.
