yatica
Yet Another Thing I Can't Afford (the money/time/attention... for) -- b/c there are so many kinds of thing that can fill in the blank. -- Nov. 7 2010, changing tag from yagcica to yatica.
*(accented on the first syllable, which rhymes with "cat". If you read IPA, /ˈjætɪkə/ )
I'm starting a new tag with this one. No, as far as I know yagcica doesn't mean anything in any language, though I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it does. It stands for "Yet Another Good Cause I Can't Afford (the time or money or other resources) to support". Sigh.
From Citypaper (Philadelphia):
Bail Is for the Rich
Nathaniel Hayes spent 113 days in jail because he didn't have $1,010.
Nathaniel Hayes vowed to never leave his gun alone at home with his wife or kids.
So when he set out for a late-night cruise on his black mountain bike on June 16, 2009, he tucked the weapon into his front pocket. A few blocks later, it was no longer his: At 23rd and Somerset streets, police stopped and frisked him. His public defender would later argue that Hayes, a soft-spoken, 24-year-old black man hailing from the west side of North Philadelphia, was "subjected to a stop and frisk on less than reasonable suspicion," arrested illegally and searched without a warrant. (There is nothing in court records indicating why the police stopped him that night.)
But none of that mattered. Hayes didn't have a license for his gun, so the police arrested him on two charges: carrying a firearm without a license, a felony; and carrying said firearm in public, a misdemeanor. Hayes says he simply never got around to obtaining a license, and that he bought a gun only to protect his wife and children in a neighborhood that "affects the way you got to go about things."
Nearly 20 hours later, Hayes was arraigned. If magistrate Francis Rebstock had followed the city's bail guidelines, Hayes would have been released immediately and required to call an automated phone system twice a week until his trial.
Instead, Restock set his bail at $10,000. The magistrate wrote that he deviated from the guidelines because Hayes had a prior record and a failure-to-appear history, even though the guidelines take this into account. Hayes' previous case, in which he was charged with marijuana possession and possession with the intent to manufacture or deliver, had been dropped and the bench warrant against him rescinded.
Because Philadelphia defendants have to pay 10 percent of their total bail amount plus a $10 fee to be released, Hayes needed $1,010 to go home.
But he didn't have $1,010. So he spent the next 113 days behind bars.
[click headline for whole story]