Court Opinion

ID: 9565800
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:28:07.153115+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:53.940993
License: Public Domain

Sanders, Chief Judge
(concurring):
I concur for the reasons stated in the opinion of the Court and for these additional reasons. Mr. Beraho voluntarily put himself in harm’s way when he got in his car, knowing it was in the process of being towed. As a practical matter, he imprisoned himself. He now complains, in effect, that the defendants did not, instantly and on his command, stop what they were doing and unimprison him. It is undisputed that he was detained for only a few minutes. (The car was towed about a quarter of a mile.) People wait longer in their cars for trains to pass by. Somewhere, in the vast human experience, there must be an inconvenience so minimally damaging, so utterly trivial, so profoundly petty, that it should not give rise to a lawsuit. If so, this is it.