Apparently in Ohio you can be arrested for crime you "may" commit in the future

[Catonahottinroof]

SMH......

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/22/police-find-hidden-compartment-in-mans-car-but-no-drugs-or-illegal-items-so-why-was-he-arrested/

[dan_bgblue]

That law is just flat wrong.

[Doc]

Didn't they make a movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) about this (LOL)

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTc1NDI5NzQyNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjc4NTE5._V1_S Y317_CR0,0,214,317_.jpg

[CatinIL]

I loved this particular comment:

"Oh boy. I’m in for it now. I live in Ohio and my car has a secret compartment. It’s in my trunk under a false bottom. I just use it to hold my spare tire, I never realized I was a drug smuggler until just now."

[KeithKSR]

I don't see how that law can stand up under scrutiny of the law. The "hide" could be there to house electronic stereo equipment, items like spare sets of keys or even cash.

The more the country limits freedoms the more I drift toward the Libertarian way of thinking.

[CitizenBBN]

Laws against things that could assist in possibly doing something illegal but not necessarily so are dangerous things. I'd love to have a slick hidden compartment to hide keys or such.

It does sound like the compartment in this truck was very sophisticated and probably for smuggling in that it had this specific sequence wired to open it, but I fail to see how this law helps. They can now arrest people for a minimal charge that will get tossed b/c they won't crowd up a jail for this, it sure wont' deter smugglers. Getting charged with an empty compartment behind a tail light will do what? Convice them to keep it in a cooler in the back of the bed?

So you bust the chops of criminals and do nothing to really prevent an ounce of drugs from reaching anyone (either you find the compartment or you dont, if you find it full there's already a law and if you find it empty you won't stop them in the slightest from trying again), but in so doing of this useless law you've restricted the rights of EVERYONE ELSE.

This nation is far too full of laws that restrict the law abiding while doing nothing to protect them from those doing wrong. Like I said on another thread, if we test this law with solvency we find that it does far too little to help enforcement even of drug laws to be worth the price in individual liberty.