Worst ticket you got out of

[Ron61]

I guess it would be a speed exhibition ticket in my own driveway. Cop had followed me 20 miles waiting for me to do something. When I turned into my driveway I chirped then tires and left about a 1 foot double black mark. Boy, was that guy fast getting out of the car and running up to my garage. He was really in a bad mood about something, cops have off days too, and jumped all over me for making him waste all that time following me. I made him follow me all that time!!! Anyway as he was telling me what kind of fine I was going to get I told him I was on my property and would go to court with it. He blew up, called me a liar and told me I was still on city property. I just asked him to walk back down to the gate with me. We did and I asked him to look up my fence line which is about 160' long at that point. He did and asked me why the upper part of the fence was so much farther out than where we were. I told him I had set the fence back just over 2' feet so the water meter would be on the outside for the guy to read an if he would look at the black marks he could easily see by the surveyors marker about 25' to the other side of us that I was on my property. He then said I could have put that marker there as if I had access to those type of stakes with the stamped # in them. I told him to call the court house, it was recorded and that I had a site map also. He finally stood there a few seconds, put the ticket book away and asked if he could look at the car. I told him yes, I was driving the 69 Cobra at the time and after looking at it for a few minutes he told me he had the wrong car. I guess some red Dodge Charger had been reported by several people for reckless driving and since mine was red that was close enough. But he did know cars and asked me if that was one of the ones that Ford sold so they could race them in NASCAR. I saw him several times after that and he would always wave.

Ron