About 20 years ago, I got a ticket for “vandalism” for magnet fishing off the banks of the Shenandoah. The cop tried to give me a ticket for fishing without a licence, which I had but didn’t have on me as I wasn’t actually fishing, then when he realized that wouldn’t fly, gave me the “vandalism” write up. “Well, I have to give you a ticket for something.” A different cop showed up at court and tried to claim he’d given me the ticket, but that didn’t even get past the prosecutor, who asked for a new trial date so the right cop could lie about the incident, and the judge just threw it out completely when he heard what I had to say about what I had been doing. ACAB.
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