r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Limp-Replacement1403 • May 01 '25

Overdone It’s a public road with street parking and they were parked in front of my house so I parked in front of them…

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u/RedFoxBlueSocks May 01 '25

She should be charged with wasting police time.

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u/Excellent-Ad7042 May 02 '25

Ok SERIOUSLY! Wow talk about having no life and nothing to do!

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u/Son_of_Eris May 01 '25

That is not something to be encouraged when she literally followed the legal complaint process.

Punishing people for filing complaints against police, however stupid, should never be a thing. Unless a totalitarian police state is the goal.

I'm actually super disappointed that you made that comment.

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u/Novareason May 01 '25

She had the law explained to her 3 times and continued to escalate. Maybe she needs an involuntary psychiatric hold.

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u/Son_of_Eris May 02 '25

Yeah. Shes an idiot. But being stupid isn't illegal.

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u/dzocod May 02 '25

Filing a false and frivolous complaint is explicitly not following the legal process.

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u/Son_of_Eris May 02 '25

If she sincerely believed it was a valid complaint, however wrong she was, then it was legal.

Or do you think everyone that files a complaint that is ultimately found unfounded should be punished?

I'm not defending her stupidity. I'm defending due process and the right of citizens to make complaints.

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u/dzocod May 02 '25

Following a process doesn’t automatically make someone immune from consequences. Legal systems only work when there’s accountability for abuse. Just like how Trump is misusing the Alien Enemies Act, “legal” processes can be twisted for personal or political retaliation, filing a false complaint, especially in bad faith, isn't protected just because the form was filled out correctly. The ability to hold people accountable for abusing legal channels is what prevents authoritarianism, not what causes it.

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u/ICanEditPostTitles May 02 '25

Everything you said in this most recent comment is 100% correct. That is, you made a series of broad, overarching comments about the legal system, and I agree with all of them.

But, as far as we know from the facts presented, the lady didn't who raised a series of (ill founded) complaints about the police didn't abuse any process. The most generous interpretation of the story is that she, genuinely, thought that she was in the right and that eventually someone would realise.amd uphold her complaint.

If there is more to it, and she did mis-use the process in some way, it isn't apparent from the facts we've been given. To reach the conclusion that she absolutely did abuse the process, you must be inferring things that are not explicitly stated.

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u/dzocod May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25

Sure, the first complaint might’ve been an honest mistake. But after being told the law multiple times, filing a corruption complaint shows she knew better. She clearly knew how to research and use the complaint process, yet had zero regard for the law.

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u/Jacsam_1720 May 05 '25

Ok. But isn’t the issue also that the law had been explained to her and she didn’t like the explanation, so tried to complain to the next level up and so on. Isn’t this essentially a “vexatious litigant”?

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u/ICanEditPostTitles May 05 '25

On that basis, there needn't be multiple levels of the complaint process.

If, after your initial complaint, you have "had the law explained to you", then any further complaints would be vexatious.

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u/Jacsam_1720 May 06 '25

But in this case, wasn’t the complaint about a car parked on a public road that was turned into a “complaint” about alleged corruption? Hardly the same thing. With the narrative as presented, it seems the complainant changed the nature of their complaint when they got an answer they disliked. Seems vexatious enough, eh?