Eventually, the police caught wind and began regularly confiscating everything from whippets to ecstasy, and people getting busted were from all over the south, Tennessee to Miami.
Asked to comment about allegations that police officers regularly confiscate or destroy video equipment, a Pas-de-Calais prefecture said "no formal complaints had been lodged," and invited any victims to come forward.
We've all grown used to those announcements telling us to turn off our mobile phones and, indeed, critics now regularly have their cellphones confiscated for fear that they might use them to pirate the movie.
Mr. Hynes said the council regularly fielded enforcement teams that confiscated A.T.V.'s and dirt bikes in areas where they had been reported.
A handful of occupiers still regularly sets up tents along Market Street in front of the San Francisco branch of the Federal Reserve Bank only to have their belongings confiscated SFPD every few days.
Their cellphones were confiscated.
They showed confiscated motorcycles.
Some hoops were confiscated.
