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Felony charges were dropped on Thursday against a 20-year-old University of Virginia student who says she panicked when undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage Control division mistook her water purchase for beer.
According to Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress, the student, Elizabeth Daly, was walking to her car on April 11 at approximately 10:15 p.m. with a box of sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream she had just bought from a local supermarket when the agentssix men and one woman, all in plainclothesapproached suspecting the box, a blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water, to be a 12-pack of beer. One jumped on the hood of her SUV; another pulled out a gun, Daly said, as her roommates seated inside looked on in horror.
"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform," Daly wrote in an account submitted to the court. "I couldn't put my windows down unless I started my car, and when I started my car they began yelling to not move the car, not to start the car. They began trying to break the windows. My roommates and I were ... terrified."
Daly's roommate in the front passenger seat told her to "go, go, go"and that's what she did, apparently "grazing" two of the agents in the process.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/uva-girl-water-beer-jail-181104442.html
Tien1985
(920 posts)For freaking out when crazy people jumped on the car with drawn guns, yelling. The whole thing is just absurd.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)We have secret police on vice duty now? That's fucked up.
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)If some fool with a gun jumped on the hood of my car he'd be going for a really fast ride.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)And what if it was beer? So what? Was it worth risking life over? Could it have been done differently or does everything have to include guns, screaming and multiple people trashing your vehicle? Fear?
So the fuck what! Beer? Water? Life? Is something unbalanced here?
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)Police States of America.