I was less than 50 feet from my car, obviously upset(yes, the cold-hearted bitch was crying on the phone at the marta station). Yes, my car was parked in the “kiss/ride” spot in what I suppose you, in your infinite wisdom, define as “unattended”. Of course, 9:17 Saturday night is not a hotbed of marta activity. I mean, all those other cars were waiting impatiently for that specific spot. Yeah, ok. And I don’t see unattended cars there at the height of rush hour?
So, instead of perhaps finding out what was wrong(an unattended female, crying and on the phone doesn’t set off an alarm?!?[sup]*[/sup]) you chose to write me a ticket. Is it time to get your quota for the month in? Yeah, it is awful late in the month.
So fuck you Officer Dickless. Do you enjoy knowing that you put your fat fuck ass(not a generalization-this cop had the biggest ass I’ve seen in years) back in your car and drove away? Good thing for you it wasn’t something more serious wrong or I’d sue the hell out of you and Fulton County. The $25 isn’t going to break me, but it sure as hell pisses me off to no end. Especially since I wasn’t taking a spot from anyone, or parked in a handicapped spot(something I never do). Plus, this is my first ticket for anything at all in 11 years of driving, so I’m really, really pissed.
[sup]*so I fucking locked my stupid self out of my apartment. Actually, the fire alarm went off and the night bar flipped over when I shut the door going out to see what was wrong. It’s been a bad week and that was the straw that sent me into a crying jag.[/sup]
It’s not about equal rights or about being treated as the fairer sex. It’s about anyone in the state I was in at that point in time being ignored by someone who is supposed to “protect and serve”
No, I’m not protesting that I was parked in the spot. What pisses me off is that he ignored someone in obvious distress in an essentially deserted subway parking lot.
The ticket? I’ll pay the ticket, I have no arguement for the fact that I was parked there. Though I would love to see them out writing tickets in that area during rush hour.
Grow some compassion. Anyone of any gender in distress should get some empathy. That it was a woman is irrelevant.
Any human in distress should be helped.
There’s also an old joke, racist in character, that expands the acronym “MARTA” into something other than “Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.” I won’t repeat it here, but even today there are idjits in town who find it hilarious.
I don’t mean to sound like an ass but i just don’t see how someone crying on the phone qualify as being “in distress”, sounds more like someone having a “personal problem”.
I agree. Maybe if you were standing or wandering around crying it would be different, but since you were on the phone you were dealing with it - if you were a victim of a crime, you would have been calling the police and would have hung up and told your problem to the cop when you saw him.
I don’t get where the cop was in the wrong. He gave you a ticket. He didn’t try to interfere with your personal problem. They are there to enforce laws, not provide counseling.
Why would she have had to be the victim of a crime to be “in distress?” The cop wasn’t in the wrong, strictly speaking; he was doing his job to the letter. The complaint was simply that he was lacking in compassion for a visibly upset person.
And…I hope I’m not going out on a limb here…compassion is a desirable trait in police officers. Who’s going to deny that?
