This kind of thing happens all to often in America.  Cops get a warrant to raid a house for drugs.  They get all dressed up in their raid outfits and then BAM!  The door comes down, the cops storm the house and an innocent citizen soils their skivvies.

Luckily, this time, no one was killed.  But Baltimore resident Andrew Leonard, the innocent guy who owned the house, wants the city to fix his door. 

The city says no dice:

The city denied his claim to be reimbursed for the damage to the door. Leonard said he was told that since the warrant police were acting on did indeed list Leonard’s address, the officers who burst through his front door hadn’t technically stormed the wrong house.

After being connected with him through Councilwoman Belinda Conaway, the police commissioner’s office promised to follow through as a “good faith measure,” Leonard said.

But for the past two weeks his calls have not been returned, he said.

Meanwhile, Leonard has called for the city’s bulk trash pickup to come and get his door. For two months it has sat, waiting for them. They never showed up. A city inspector did though, and ticketed him for garbage in the back yard. THE BROKEN DOOR! They fined him $50.

First they break the door, then they tell him to pay for it himself, fail to come and pick it up when he asks and then ticket him for having it in his yard.

I would be one irritated tax payer.

Hat Tip: Baltimore Crime Beat

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