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Posted : Thu, 31 May 2007 20:34:01 GMT
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SAVAGE, Minn., May 31 A Minnesota woman who was forced to the ground and handcuffed after a DirecTV dispatcher told police that an installer was being held hostage is suing.

"These are regular people. She's a schoolteacher. ... You shouldn't have SWAT teams coming after someone if they know there's not a crisis," Marc Kurzman, a lawyer for Julie and Steven Pyle of Savage, Minn., told the St. Paul, Minn., Pioneer Press. The Pyles are seeking more than $75,000 in damages in a federal civil rights lawsuit against DirecTV, Savage police and Scott County enforcement dispatchers.

The Pioneer Press reported that a DirectTV installer working at the Pyles' home told a dispatcher he was "being held hostage" and the dispatcher called police. Two installers then spoke to police and said there ' s been a misunderstanding and that they ' d left the house. According to the Pyles' lawsuit, police went to their home, anyway, called Julie Pyle out and handcuffed her at gunpoint before searching the home.

Julie Pyle felt bad the job was taking the installers so long, so she baked them cookies, the lawsuit said.

Copyright 2007 by UPI


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Yeah, but
By: cartmantul , Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:42:21 GMT

I think we are forgetting the important thing here.

What was she wearing?


Punks with badges
By: Mark , Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:50:40 GMT

She should get $75 million, not $75 thousand. The government and its armed thugs are the enemy of decent people. Taxation is extortion.


Pot Smoking Terrorists
By: Roadhunter , Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:45:16 GMT



Good work. We need *more* security.
By: Anders Chydenius , Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:26:31 GMT

It is easy to criticize peace officers when they make mistakes, but what if no one yelled, "Fire!" in a burning theater? If you are going to make an omlette, you are going to have to break a few eggs. Security requires that some individuals' rights will be violated. There are terrorists among us who smoke marijuana, have sex with sixteen and seventeen year olds, are cleaning toilets and picking cabbage for less than the minimum wage, and question the wisdom of our government. These people must all be rounded up, including the horny housewives of Minnesota, and put in prison.


I know the family....
By: emptyhandkiller , Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:00:47 GMT

Julie and Steve Pyle are total IDIOTS. Everyone has hated them since the day they moved into the neighborhood. Julie is always trying to lure repairmen for sex. She porked the mail man at least 8 times. There was an electrician who stopped by there every day for two weeks


Why does Julie Pyle hate America ?!?1
By: Grrr , Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:39:25 GMT

Dan hit it on the head. Some clowns at the satellite TV behemoth need to be fired.

Avoiding Savage, MN at all costs...


Missing common sense
By: sdfdf , Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:52:10 GMT

Looks like they made a joke about being held hostage because she wanted them to stay and have some cookies, Then everybody got carried away like reported lots of other times in the media.


http://faulkna.blogspot.com
By: Jeffery Faulk , Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:01:34 GMT

They did this after they talked to the installers? Sounds like the police were having a bad day and decided to share.


Why haven't the installers been arrested?
By: Dan , Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:21:19 GMT

They lied to the police and said they were being held hostage?!? When are *THEY* going to jail?


Whell...
By: SteveDean , Thu, 31 May 2007 22:53:11 GMT

We do have a war on terrorism going on and the police can't take any chances with housewives these days.


Police State
By: Orphan Bob , Thu, 31 May 2007 22:42:14 GMT

Woot! Police State well under way! GO TEAM AMERICA!!!


Expected
By: anon , Thu, 31 May 2007 21:48:25 GMT

Thats what happens when you call the "Savage Police"



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