{"id":3512,"date":"2006-12-28T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T16:33:01","slug":"some-pretext-not-necessarily-better-than-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/28\/some-pretext-not-necessarily-better-than-none\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Pretext Not Necessarily Better Than None"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Alaska, a woman suspected that a package had been delivered to her old residence by mistake, so she called the current resident.  Current resident said he didn&#8217;t know anything about it.  So the woman called the state police, and they searched the man&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the troopers found a cornucopia of drugs in the man&#8217;s home, but that leads me to think he might have been under suspicion and the misdirected package provided a mere pretext for a search.  But still, we&#8217;ve lowered the bar to the point where suspicion of a misdirected package can lead to a police search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Aw, who am I kidding?  The police do this sort of thing based on the uncorroborated tips of informants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AK_DELIVERY_MISTAKE_AKOL-?SITE=VARIT&#038;SECTION=US&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2006-12-26-18-09-29\" target=\"_new\">The story<\/a> seems to indicate that the woman got her Avon samples back, though.  Well, she will, after they&#8217;re done being evidence in a trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Alaska, a woman suspected that a package had been delivered to her old residence by mistake, so she called the current resident. Current resident said he didn&#8217;t know anything about it. So the woman called the state police, and they searched the man&#8217;s home. Sure, the troopers found a cornucopia of drugs in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18354,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/18354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}