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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
Having a police officer enter your home to investigate a noise complaint and then seize your tv because he believes it proceeds of crime in not reasonable.
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well.... what if my home was a $30,000 trailer and my tv was a $9,000 60" plasma tv, blu-ray & hd-dvd, ps3, $5,000 stereo system, $3,000 media centre computer, all out fancy fancy leather furniture, etc, etc, etc.... you get the idea.... not a 'normal' setup for a person in a trailer park.
would the cops have the right to hold it until you could prove when and where you bought it all from and where you got the money without accusing you of or at least saying there was something particular you were under the suspicion of? it could be possible that there was a particular suspicion and it wasn't reported....
i don't necissarily disagree with the cops' decision here - just curious about where the line is that they can say "hey, that's too expensive for you to own legally" or "hey, that's too much money, it must be stolen"