But pointless at that time, unless he was then going to escort her off the interstate.
Nothing in the OP indicates that the cop was rude or unprofessional in any way. The reason for the ticket was a violation of the vehicle code.
Fucking A, do I have to to bring the two by four of perspective out again?
It’s a very minor, and I stress minor traffic ticket. In most places the fine will be waived if she fixes the damn thing. No points on the license, no money, just here’s a piece of paper to make sure that you actually do fix it.
It’s not profiling, it’s not harassment, and Jack, the woman did not get thrown out into the freezing cold. I honestly don’t see how anybody can argue that an obvious violation does not equal an easy to get out of ticket.
Ok, Terminator. As long as the rogue gangs of single mothers with busted taillights are getting their cummupance, I guess the nation can sleep well at night.
Compliance with the law is not optional.
Jack, you do realize that in the real world the rogue gangs of single mothers don’t usually have to pay the tickets, right? Show the court it’s fixed and they’re done.
Perspective, man.
Of course. I would expect the authorities to tangle with that brand of cut-throats.
But how is he supposed to know she’s a single mom trying to get her kids to a family outing?
I don’t know. English? His eyeballs? He stopped her. Did he talk to her, or just fling the ticket through the window?
Maybe I used up all the available karma back in '85 when I got a warning ticket in the middle of downstate IL for having a burned out headlight - and speeding, and expired registration, and the 3 of us were stoned out of our minds, and when the cop opened the back door (illegal search?) a sackful of empty beer cans fell out onto the road! 
I couldn’t believe it when he told me sit in his squad, and then said “I’m going to have to write you up a warning!” 
Kept that ticket for several years.
Tho we were heading home for x-mas break, I think it was still a couple of days before the 25th.
Are you suggesting that the cop didn’t let this woman continue on her way after handing out the ticket? How in the world did he do anything to prevent an accident during this particular snowstorm?
I don’t know–I just find it hard to believe that she said something like, “Oh please don’t, I’m a single mother just trying to get my kids to a family gathering in the snow–have a heart.” Both because I’d like to believe she had some heart and that the OP doesn’t live in a stop motion animation Christmas special.
Listen, snark aside, a cop stops a car in Christmas Eve. It’s a woman with two little kids. She says, “I’m just going to my sister’s house.”
Why the fuck wouldn’t it be perfectly hunky-dory to say, “Well you’ve got a taillight out, here’s a warning, get it fixed, Happy Festivus.”? Or should he have hauled her into the station until her story checked out.
I don’t think the City of Calgary police know this. In my 20 years living here, I have gotten a handful of tickets, and not a single warning. If they pulled me over, they ticketed me (and my attitude was never bad; mostly it was just, “No, I don’t know why you pulled me over.”) I suspect I just don’t wear my tops cut low enough. Add to this the almost complete lack of enforcement for the law-breaking I see on a daily basis, and I’ve come to really dislike the Calgary police force.
Regarding fixing broken lights, I just had my car in for its scheduled maintenance, and they fixed a broken license plate light for me. Apparently there is a way for responsible motorists to avoid running around with broken lights. Course, if I had been stopped the day before I took it in, I probably would have gotten a ticket for it.
Dammit! You used up MY karma!
Why do you have to use so much exaggeration? She got a ticket. A ticket. Its not like after he pulled her over, he put her in the back of the squad car and then busted out all her headlights and taillights.
Sure he could have been nicer. And you could also be less of an exaggerating whiner.
You talkin’ to me?
I’m not exaggerating; I’m utilizing humorous hyperbole.
The “he could have been nicer” part is the key issue here … apart from where getting tickets generally tends to suck, especially on Christmas Eve.
My favourite example of this happened to a friend of mine (not me, really! :D).
As a teen, he was riding his bicycle down a steep hill, stoned out of his gourd on a truly heroic brew of drugs and booze late at night, when he spotted a cop car doing one of those RIDE type spot checks. He lost control of the bike and went smashing into the cop car, totalling the bike; he sailed through the air like a bird and landed without a scratch or bruse in the grass by the side of the road - almost miraculous that he wasn’t killed.
The cops drove him home and didn’t bother to arrest or ticket him, though it was clear he was fucked up. Rather, he wrote his name and number on a piece of paper and said, very seriously, as he handed it to him “I want you to call me in five years and let me know you are still alive. I have a bet riding with my partner on this. He says anyone as dumb as you can’t possibly live that long; please prove him wrong”.
[The cop won his bet, though I can’t remember whether the guy actually called him]
I have to echo what the posters that back law and order unthinkingly every single time like pathetic fucking sheep are saying. That bitch deserved a ticket. I know that personally if I even so much as drive to the store for milk I first stop at the local safety inspection station and make sure my car is road worth. If for any reason I am pulled over I then will blow the cop as a little way to say that I am sorry for whatever I did. Because like any submissive primate the best think that I can do is “present” to the alpha baboon that has the gun. :rolleyes:
You are doing it wrong.
Learn from the other primates - you are supposed to “present” your rear end, not bow. 