Thread: Thinking about possible travel to the US - some question

Well, you are sensible to be cautious!

Only cross the road when the red man is on, or you could get beaten up by the police!


Consider this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...aywalking.html

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto said he had been the victim of "terrible, terrible violence" after he inadvertently committed the offence of "jaywalking" in Atlanta, Georgia, last week and failed to realise the man telling him to stop was an officer.
The slight, bespectacled professor claimed that five burly officers pinned him to the ground after Kevin Leonpacher kicked his legs from under him as he hesitated to show his ID.

He was left "traumatised and disorientated" and with a gashed forehead as he was taken to the local jail and charged with pedestrian failure to obey a police officer and physical obstruction of police.



The academic, professor of global environmental history at Queen Mary College, University of London, and a member of Oxford University's modern history faculty, said he had been subjected to "very humiliating procedures" and even had his box of peppermints confiscated.

A Norwegian man on holiday in th USA with his mother, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison because he misunderstood the traffic regulations and took a wrong turn on a one-way street.
His car was classified as a "deadly weapon" hence the long sentence. He and his mother are saying they got lost in the one-way system and people were acting hostile towards them. Listening to the interview, they are completely credible. It's completely inconceivable that this Norwegian and his elderly mother tried to kill anyone, as the police had claimed. The reason he is looking bruised is because the police beat him up when he was arrested.




Plus, make sure you get a medical insurance before you travel or you will not get treated in a hospital if you take ill.... !!

And finally, you will have to leave your FINGERPRINT when you enter the USA, as if you were a suspected criminal.

There are lots of things I'd like to see in the USA, but this kind of stuff is really offputting.

Originally Posted by Hanna

Well, you are sensible to be cautious!

Only cross the road when the red man is on, or you could get beaten up by the police!


Consider this:

Historian 'pinned to ground by US police and beaten for jaywalking' - Telegraph


A Norwegian man on holiday in th USA with his mother, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison because he misunderstood the traffic regulations and took a wrong turn on a one-way street.
His car was classified as a "deadly weapon" hence the long sentence. He and his mother are saying they got lost in the one-way system and people were acting hostile towards them. Listening to the interview, they are completely credible. It's completely inconceivable that this Norwegian and his elderly mother tried to kill anyone, as the police had claimed. The reason he is looking bruised is because the police beat him up when he was arrested.




Plus, make sure you get a medical insurance before you travel or you will not get treated in a hospital if you take ill.... !!

And finally, you will have to leave your FINGERPRINT when you enter the USA, as if you were a suspected criminal.

There are lots of things I'd like to see in the USA, but this kind of stuff is really offputting.

As for that guy, what would be your comments on this one: Larsgard Innocent? No! Navajo County Attorney Brad Carlyon Tells The Real Story. - YouTube

The whole story looks really misty to me, as it seems any coverage of that accident on youtube only sticks to the man's language and can't even be bothered to translate it. I finally found that one having the attorney speak out, so, what are your points on that? Total lies? If not, how on earth could that man ever be justified?