News and notes from around the interweb:
- Seattle residents get $50 for joining SkyMiles (HT: Doctor of Credit)
- He flew with cash and “failed to prove it wasn’t part of any crimes”
A North Carolina man with $39,500 in cash landed in Phoenix…& had it all taken away by police.
Officers suspected him of money laundering, but he brought it to buy a truck for business. Even though he's not charged with a crime, he hasn't gotten it backhttps://t.co/5TjATjEAJs pic.twitter.com/5CGdRuKpxq
— Briana Whitney (@BrianaWhitney) April 20, 2021
- Jerusalem’s Posh Airport Had Direct Flights to Iran. This Is What It Looks Like Today (HT: @zero_coupon)
- Boy Wins €65,000 Payout from Turkish Airlines Over Spilt Tea Burns what did you think of the McDonald’s coffee verdict…?
- I told you to expect rental car prices to spike because rental companies sold off cars during the pandemic, and they’re slow to replace cars due to tight manufacturer inventories and balance sheets that are on the mend, and that’s what’s happening.
I found this Conor Sen op-ed amusing, “No Bailout for Rental Cars, Now Customers Pay for It” I mean that’s literally the way it’s supposed to work. He even wants to consider future airline bailouts paired with rental company bailouts.
The rental vehicle industry is an example of what happens when an industry is left to fend for itself. ..The government could have avoided this situation by providing loans or grants to rental companies last summer in return for a pledge to keep their vehicle fleet well stocked in preparation for a rebound in demand. Perhaps rental vehicle companies and airlines should be seen as a package deal for financial aid if a similar pandemic crisis develops in the future.
Ironically even Sen understands there’s not a huge problem here to address,
For now, the lack of government support allows tech companies like Turo Inc. to step into the void. The company allows vehicle owners to rent out their cars to other people, similar to the way Airbnb Inc. works for housing. Rental rates are so high that it might even make sense for individuals to buy vehicles for the sole purpose of renting them out this summer, and then sell them as travel demand subsides after Labor Day or when the rental companies manage to replenish inventories.
- City of Austin discovers that owning an airport hotel means being responsible for its losses, they apparently thought that owning a Convention Center hotel was a way to funnel cash to an ex-City Council member.
- DHS wants to put REAL ID drivers licenses on smartphones
Whatever happened to the principal that you are “innocent until proven guilty”??? I missed when we switch to the Napoleonic Code where the burden is not on the government but the accused!
Regarding the smell of corruption in Travis County, what did you expect when all but one current council members and the mayor of Austin are affiliated with the Party of the Jackass?
Very bright “businessman” carrying $30k+ cash to PHX.
Mama says, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Seriously ??? With the high crime rate nearly everywhere, such as murder, burglaries, auto theft, domestic abuse, home invasions, to name just a few, don’t county police have enough to do ? Pretty sure the citizens would say they can think of plenty of other serious crimes to keep them busy. Shame on the court for not releasing the money when no arrest was even made.
I sure liked the USA better when we had a Constitution.
Ridiculous. You cannot prove a negative. (Just try to prove that you don’t have a twin brother somewhere in the world who was separated from you at birth.) Incidentally that’s why idiot Bush’s demand that Saddam prove he didn’t have WMDs (itself a term that could cover almost anything) was absurd. But then logic isn’t the strong suit of bureaucratic minds. And I wonder if this would have happened if the man was white.
It’s a liberal belief individuals shouldn’t be able to do what they want to their own bodies and own money (product of their labor and capital). These laws are a product of that belief. This man is another victim of the war on drugs for which these laws were created.
It’s a shame both parties are complicit in the infringement of freedom and persecution of the individual. We will never get anywhere good until we nominate and elect politicians who denounce cops/agents who enforce these leftist laws (like the war on drugs/civil asset forfeiture /gun control/tax laws/speech laws) instead of calling them heroes. These politicians should be mobilizing 100 million citizens to replace every single cop/deputy at a municipal/city and county level with patriots who will defend against government theft instead of perpetrate it.
The momentum against civil asset forfeiture is dead. Politicians from both sides 5 years ago pretended that they cared and it was all an act. Both parties don’t think citizens should be able to spend without strict government control and oversight over our lives.
This guy needs a gofundme account. The thugs in Phoenix will do everything they can to keep his money.
@ddricherd
Before you go into a race bating conversation check your facts, timbs vs Indiana, is one of many corrupt Civil forfeiture cases by police, not race
I’m all for forfeiture if a person is convicted of a crime. If not, it is blatantly unconstitutional and a mark of a dictatorship.
Jerusalem to Kabul, Teheran? Wow!
“It’s a liberal belief individuals shouldn’t be able to do what they want to their own bodies”
LOL. That’s funny. Remind me again which party is telling women what they can and can’t do with their own bodies?
No Karen anti-mask stories this week?
If you’d like to help Jerry Johnson and others caught in the unconscionable theft that is civil forfeiture, support the Institute for Justice at ij.org. More information about this case is available here: https://ij.org/press-release/charlotte-trucking-company-owner-fights-for-39500-police-took-from-him-at-phoenix-airport/