Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the cops to raid the wrong home and kill the man inside.

But the man who police say admitted to stealing the Weed Eater from a home of a local judge had already been in custody prior to the deadly raid that took place minutes before midnight last month, according to WLEX. That man told police he had stored the stolen Weed Eater at a home at 489 Vanzant Road which is a rural area outside of London city limits.

      • In the Netherlands at least it is considered personal private information by law. It is in many other jurisdictions as well, including the US actually. Just because few people take the steps to protect it doesn’t make it any less personal nor private information.

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          Addresses are public record.
          Information that is public record isn’t private.
          Public ≠ private
          Do you see how that works?

          Also,

          in the Netherlands

          I get it, they’re called the nether lands because they are far away from—and not relevant to—what’s being discussed: Kentucky.

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          The amount of people who don’t understand this is insane to me. “But you can find it easily.” Does that make it okay to just broadcast to everyone? 🙄

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              Saying your address is public information is being deliberately obtuse. Share yours right fucking now if you disagree. If you don’t share it, you agree they’re different.

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                I don’t feel like it, go get a phone book and look it up yourself, or go to my local City Hall and find out there. Because it’s a matter of public record.

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                  I can’t help but notice you haven’t given your name and city. Could it be because you prefer to keep them private?

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                    You know there’s a distinction between free speech in the legal and moral sense? “I want my privacy” and “That is private information” are also distinct. This is obvious. Stop being deliberately obtuse, everyone sees through it.

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          It’s not private though you know you can look up people by name on-sites. Can find whoever purchased any house you want. And we used to have things called phone books

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      they used to be published in books you know? it’s generally a thing that can be searched easily if you have someone’s name and municipality.

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          You can still look up people’s addresses if you know which websites to use. Most municipalities offer it as an online service. Your address is hardly as hard to find as you’d think - it takes some doing, and knowing the right websites, but you can do it pretty easy.

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            And you can go look up who owns the houses in city halls. All the information is open to the public.