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Three people handcuffed and dressed as jail inmates were hitch hiking on a highway. It was a stunt put on by radio station WXTB in conjunction with a FOX network show, Prison Break. This is in an August 12 Associated Press story from Land O'Lakes, FL.
Between thirty and forty motorists called the Sheriff's Department, which was not amused. Kevin Doll, a spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff, said that under Florida law, any motorist who felt threatened could have shot the masquerading stunt participants.
He is referring to the recently adopted "Castle Doctrine" law, which Jeb Bush signed surrounded by NRA officals(not by law enforcement). The "Castle Doctrine" does not mean what it says, for it not only gives people the right to shoot in their own home, but anywhere and any time they feel threatened.
I live in Florida and before this sweeping new law was passed I never heard one person say there was anything wrong with Florida law on self-defense. The new law isn't needed, it is just a series of disasters waiting to happen.
Associated Press story:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INMATE_STUNT?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=customwire.htm
Between thirty and forty motorists called the Sheriff's Department, which was not amused. Kevin Doll, a spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff, said that under Florida law, any motorist who felt threatened could have shot the masquerading stunt participants.
He is referring to the recently adopted "Castle Doctrine" law, which Jeb Bush signed surrounded by NRA officals(not by law enforcement). The "Castle Doctrine" does not mean what it says, for it not only gives people the right to shoot in their own home, but anywhere and any time they feel threatened.
I live in Florida and before this sweeping new law was passed I never heard one person say there was anything wrong with Florida law on self-defense. The new law isn't needed, it is just a series of disasters waiting to happen.
Associated Press story:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INMATE_STUNT?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=customwire.htm