"What would you do if somebody came to your door and ripped your whole house apart, turned everything upside down and said you are a porno freak?"

KeystoneKops.jpgOk, it's not funny when someone's house gets invaded by the cops. The continued erosion of our rights in the name of the war on terror isn't funny in the least. Perpetrating obscene phone calls isn't funny. The police making an error and therefore not apprehending the person making the obscene phone calls isn't funny, either. Multiple squad cars driving up onto someone's lawn in search of porn is, well, kind of funny. And this article from the Spokesman-Review that contains all of the above is completely hilarious.

Hines wrote down the wrong figures for a telephone number associated with the calls, so he obtained a search warrant for a house in Spokane, miles from the correct location in suburban Spokane Valley, Knezovich said.

Through a spokesman in the sheriff's office Hines declined an interview request from the newspaper.

The irate homeowner told by The Spokesman-Review, which did not identify him at his request, that deputies dumped out drawers, went through his wallet and checkbook, seized computers, CDs, floppy disks, VHS tapes, and other material and refused to clean up the mess in the raid September 27.

Half a dozen sheriff's vehicles converged on the house, and after taking photographs outside, Hines told officers within hearing of the neighbors, "Now let's go inside and get some porn," the owner said.

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