I don't pay much attention to this event generally, because it always seems to degenerate into a drunken mess. Radio traffic both Friday and Saturday nights was pretty lively. And I caught the call Saturday where someone wanted to speak to an officer in re a "Deputy" having pinched him for 4X seatbelt violations, and told him that he had to pay up on the spot or go to jail. I know some states have this silly pay-now-or-else policy, but IN law makes this absolutely illegal. The VCSD had given the private security hired for the event, part of them anyway, Special Deputy ID's. And one of them apparently couldn't resist shaking down an attendee for a hundred bucks. At least he complained and it's become an ISP investigation, and has hit the local news. If the allegations are true, I'd hope there will be some serious consequences, and it makes me wonder how many out-of-state folks got caught that way and didn't know any better, just paid up and counted their blessings. Disgusting.
