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Why Don’t You Just Let Us Hold On To That


Customers leave a struggling waitress a $12,000 tip. Thinking they may have accidentally left it behind, the waitress calls the police. When the deadline for someone to claim the money passes, the police then tell the waitress that, well, they’re going to keep the money, because it’s probably drug money. They do generously offer to giver her $1,000 for letting them seize her cash.

Of course, even if it was drug money, the waitress had nothing to do with the drug crimes behind the money. And once the cash was given to her, I think most reasonable people would agree she should be allowed to keep it (the exception would of course be if it had been stolen).

But the legal fiction underlying civil asset forfeiture is that the property is guilty of the crime. So if the money was used in a drug transaction (and some jurisdictions now even argue if the money will be used in a transaction at some point in the future), the money itself is at fault, and must be forfeited, no matter who happens to be in possession of it.

Once the cash is deemed guilty, the government gets to keep it. And spend it on government things.

I guess at that point the cash is no longer guilty. It’s just dirty.

vern wrote:I thought this thread was going to be about Batali.

Blaidd Drwg wrote:

vern wrote:I thought this thread was going to be about Batali.

that fat fuck...i bought one of his cast iron signature pans (on accident) and it blows...how can you fuck up a cast iron pan?

vern wrote:I thought this thread was going to be about Batali.

Jezebel Jones wrote:

Blaidd Drwg wrote:

vern wrote:I thought this thread was going to be about Batali.

that fat fuck...i bought one of his cast iron signature pans (on accident) and it blows...how can you fuck up a cast iron pan?

Tsk Tsk. Stick with Lodge pans. Mine are so well seasoned I can flip an egg.

protobuilder wrote:

Jezebel Jones wrote:

Blaidd Drwg wrote:

vern wrote:I thought this thread was going to be about Batali.

that fat fuck...i bought one of his cast iron signature pans (on accident) and it blows...how can you fuck up a cast iron pan?

Tsk Tsk. Stick with Lodge pans. Mine are so well seasoned I can flip an egg.

I love my cast iron skillets but I've given up cooking eggs in them. I have to scrub the damn pans so hard afterward to remove the egg residue that it takes off all the seasoning. Tips?

Turdacious wrote:The great thing is that now she has to give 1/3 of $11k to an attorney, and will now have to claim the $12k on her taxes.

vern wrote:I thought this thread was going to be about Batali.

vern wrote:I've never worked in the food service industry, but I'm fascinated by the waiter blogs. You can learn a lot about human nature from reading them. It's amazing the lengths some people will go to justify stiffing servers.

Screw Batali.

Ed Zachary wrote:

vern wrote:I've never worked in the food service industry, but I'm fascinated by the waiter blogs. You can learn a lot about human nature from reading them. It's amazing the lengths some people will go to justify stiffing servers.

Screw Batali.

I used to read a New York waiter's blog religiously. I've never understood treating the people that serve you like shit simply because of what they do. Strangely enough a lot of waiters/watresses I know hate to see a table full of knee grows seated in their section.

Mickey O'neil wrote:Links to said waiter blogs?

baffled wrote:When I was waiting, catering and bar tending in college, I hated seeing Jews, Chinese and Filipinos at my tables or coming to the bar.

Jews were so stereotypically cheap it was almost comical. I quickly found out why my Dad said the Chinese were known as the Jews of Hawaii when he was growing up, and Filipinos are just disgusting people.

Mickey O'neil wrote:Links to said waiter blogs?