First Ticket

[Mastiff107]

Gee, who'da guessed that a pro-law enforcement guy like yourself would have gotten a ticket based on your apparent support of those who protect and serve? Just goes to show you those bastards are out to get us!.....yours truly, a retired cop

[DanEC]

I got caught in a neighborhood trap (actually pulled over in my own driveway waiting for the garage door to rise) for apparently not coming to a 100% dead stop at the corner stop sign. Apparently, a guy in the neighborhood, who was tired of people cutting through complained enough to the city that they positioned a cop at the top of the block for two solid weeks. I hadn't any specific memory of that particular stop that day but I don't have a habit of running stop signs or even rolling through them, so I'm sure I was barely rolling. But - I could deal with it until the young cop said - Sir, I wouldn't normally pull you over for that, much less ticket you, but I have orders today to give a ticket to every person I can stop in this neighborhood. He kind of lost my respect there. By the time the two weeks was up I think half the neighbors had a ticket and the other half were afraid to leave the driveway.

But in reality - it wasn't the cop who was just trying to make a living - it was the idiots down in the city hall telling them how to do their job.