Only in Tacoma

[Zderf]

At first I though this might have been one of our Tacoma bubs.. but they all know where 1st gear is!!

Seattle PI, July 22, 2003

He alleged bribery, but cop is punished Police sergeant's 'unarrest' of prominent Tacoma architect under scrutiny of department's inner workings.

Bundy was working at a construction site on Pacific Avenue where tracks were being laid for a light-rail system. The street was busy as people left Zoobilee, the Point Defiance Zoo Society's annual black-tie fund-raiser. Among them was Pardini, in a tuxedo, and his wife Patricia Karnay, in an evening gown, who were riding in a replica of a vintage Ford Cobra, a vehicle that Pardini told the P-I he thinks of as "my baby."

Pardini said in a written statement to police and in an interview with a reporter that when he approached a transition zone over the tracks, he was certain that his low-riding car would bottom out and be damaged. In Pardini's complaint to internal affairs, he said, "I stopped to briefly assess the situation when the flagman started yelling at me and trying to wave me through. I tried to explain that I couldn't make it over the transition."

Pardini told police that he and the flagman got into an argument that culminated when he obscenely announced that he was backing his car up. But he mistakenly put the car in first gear, and it lurched forward, he said.

For the full story:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/..._tacoma22.html

Tootles...

Zderf (safely in Woodinville)