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   David Jeffrey Spetch   wrote:   
   > Disgusting Hamilton Police Brutality over music, and my weekend   
   >experience! Now The Hammer!   
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   > (Hamilton Ontario Canada)   
      
      
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   Excuse the top posting but why on earth would you go to the trouble of   
   posting all this to a newsgroup with few readers and even less interest   
   in the subject. Followed-up to include ont.general (Ontario General)   
   where you might at least get a few readers.   
      
      
      
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   >Funny (not in a laughable way upon completing writing this article   
   >Sunday May 09 2010) That only minutes after writing this I see on the   
   >news that a man was beaten by the police for listening to his music   
   >and in now taking them to court! Was a little ironic that I just wrote   
   >this and see that on the news. A few years ago I myself was cuffed and   
   >then beaten over a music complaint when the music wasn't even loud!   
   >(FYI that complaint was from a guy who would crank his garbage music   
   >and think it was funny for weeks until the day came I got a stereo so   
   >I didn't have to hear his crap anymore so he gets mad and calls the   
   >cops on me the dirt bag he was let alone as an un chosen room mate!)   
   >This is getting easier already!   
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   >I live in a rather small apartment building and on Saturday May 08   
   >2010 I helped one of the long term tenants move out and he left me   
   >with a few things as he is now shacking up with a lady who he says has   
   >the appropriate furnishings etc.   
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   >So once I helped move him, he left me with his old apt. key and told   
   >me to help myself. I immediately went and salvaged some furniture etc.   
   >to replace some of the stuff I have thats falling apart etc. and moved   
   >all of the stuff except for a few things up to my place. So here I was   
   >with an apartment so full of things I needed to sort out and start   
   >clearing paths for getting around and re organizing. Earlier that day   
   >while we were getting him ready for the move he gave me a huge   
   >collection of empties that I cashed in at the beer store so once I   
   >finished moving everything I wanted I went for a walk to the liquor   
   >store to get a six pack.   
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   >Now I'll tell you straight up that I have lived in this building for a   
   >year and a half and until Saturday I only ever once had my next door   
   >neighbor come over and ask me to turn it down because he had to work   
   >the next day so I told him absolutely and shut it off completely.   
   >Haven't heard peep from him since as the people who have lived in this   
   >building for a while know that I only listen to my music a couple of   
   >days of each month while I am drinking to blow off some steam! For a   
   >year and a half people who live here have not indicated that I am   
   >anything other than a respectable tenant who lives rather peacefully   
   >and is very quiet with perhaps the exception of one or two days a   
   >month I listen to music.   
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   >So this couple moves in below me a month or two ago and it sounded on   
   >a few occasions like they are beating the tar out of each other as the   
   >whole foundation of the building rocks with echoes of what sounds like   
   >perhaps a skull being smashed into a wall along with allot of   
   >screaming and yelling and this always occurs through the wee hours of   
   >the morning usually 2 - 4 am. waking perhaps the entire 30 - 40 unit   
   >building up until the cops show up.   
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   >So I got back from the liquor store and after the first beer was   
   >finished and it was about 6:30 - 7:00 pm. I decided to throw on some   
   >tunes to listen to while I strategise how to further organize and sure   
   >as always for the last year and a half when the odd song pops up that   
   >has the all killer and no filler sound I crank it up for the duration   
   >of the odd song coming off the radio and then turn it back down to a   
   >more moderate level.   
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   >So here I am turning the music down from I think an old REO Speedwagon   
   >tune that rocks, and I hear a knock at my door. It is the Super   
   >telling me it is not him but someone complained to him about the music   
   >and he was letting me know (since he assumed the Super position we   
   >have always gotten along as we use to live in another building   
   >together owned by the same Land Lord years ago) and I said to him   
   >something like "these people got some nerve complain about me when   
   >they keep the whole building up through the wee hours of the morning"   
   >and he replied with something like "I'm just passing along the   
   >message" so I thanked him and told him that I had allot to do and I am   
   >going to continue to listen to my music for a while (to top it all off   
   >it is Saturday early evening) and told him have a good one.   
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   >A short while later another good song came on so as usual I turned it   
   >up again and a minute or two after turning it back down again I get   
   >another knock on my door. So I opened the door to a cop telling me to   
   >turn it down because he can here you from downstairs and so I told him   
   >that I just turned it down and he told me to turn it down anyway so I   
   >thought to myself f.f. sakes a pig trying to power trip over fluff as   
   >I walked over and turned my music down to a ridiculously low level and   
   >turned around to find this cop uninvited breathing down my neck and I   
   >told him I didn't invite him into my place and to leave and he said I   
   >could arrest you so I told him alright if you are going to arrest me   
   >then just do it and he said ok lets go so I asked him if he would mind   
   >if I grabbed my jacket and he said sure as he then walked down the   
   >hallway to the stairwell. I quickly found my jacket and made sure my   
   >critters were fed before locking my door and following the direction   
   >of the cop and went outside to find him in his car. I walked to to the   
   >back door of his car and went to open it only it was locked. I tried   
   >again and it was locked so the cop rolled down the front window and   
   >said what are you doing and so I told him that he said he was taking   
   >me in. He said that he is not going to take me in so I told him to   
   >stop bugging me about my music and went back inside.   
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   >So I marched right back up stairs resumed my music to a moderate level   
   >and about 15 minutes later that cop is knocking at my door again   
   >telling me he told me to turn it down and I told him that I did and   
   >that it is at a reasonable level of course come comes into my   
   >apartment uninvited and goes for one of my two stereos. While he did I   
   >unplugged the other one he walked right by. He then turned my music   
   >down and then exists my apartment asking me to follow him, he then   
      
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