You’re serious? She’s running her ass around in hazardous driving conditions in the snow on Christmas Eve to get to a fuck*** New Years Eve party with a toddler in the back and the cop has the audacity to give her “fix it” ticket for a brake light being out - in those low visibility conditions -with an infant and a toddler in the back- on one of the most dangerous driving nights of the year.
And he’s a psychopath for giving her an incentive to make sure the job gets done via a fix it ticket?
Give me one fucking argument, just one that is not “but… but… it was Christmas!” that convinces me that this poor single mother was scarred for life for having received the most minor traffic ticket I can think of.
ETA: above is not directed at astro
For the people saying “just go to court, and show the violation is fixed and the ticket goes away” - assuming that’s true for the jurisdiction (and it probably is) - depending on the woman’s job - a half-day off work can be hard to arrange.
Give me one reason why, “but … but … it was Christmas” isn’t a decent enough argument why the cop could have been a nice guy and forgone the most minor traffic ticket you can think of.
Bingo – I have a couple of cops in the family, and the prevailing thought going into a minor stop* like this is that if a ticket is written, then someone involved in that traffic stop was being an asshole.
*Gotta say, the “there are no minor stops” attitude on display in this thread is one of the most laughably hard-assed things I’ve read in awhile.
He has a job to do. If he’s not going to do it because it’s Christmas he might as well stay home.
Again … I’ve gotten warning for shit worse than that. Those warning-issuers were doing their job too.
It sounds like you are arguing that the most lenient response is always the best. Cops have discretion, but it’s theirs, not yours.
What if it were Ramadan? Hannnukah? Should only warnings be issued then as well?
Fap Fap Fap uhhhh Law and Order Fap Fap Fap.
Just the other day a cop pulled me over on my way to work.
Me: Did I roll through that stop sign? (I usually do)
Cop: What? No, I don’t know, I wasn’t paying attention.
Me: Oh, nevermind then, what can I do for you officer?
Cop: (chuckles) I just wanted to let you know you had a brake light out.
Me: Okay, thanks.
Cop: Have a nice day and be sure to get that fixed.
Me: Thanks for the help.
Respect for police rating +1
So you’re position is that that you agree with the OP’s assertion: “somewhere in Anderson, there’s a psychopathic cop. I’m sure he’s going to hell.”
No. My position is that you are a sad, cowed little bitch who would let anyone with a badge and a gun throat fuck you.
Maybe the cop doesn’t celebrate Christmas. Also, the fact that it’s the night before a holiday does not obligate someone to be nice.
Maybe he was a dick, maybe not, but calling him a psychopath is kind of retarded.
And we appreciate the obvious time and effort required to present us with what I am confident is a representation of your very best work. Bless your heart.
What we don’t know is 1) if the ticket was a ‘warning ticket’ 2) if the ticket was written locally meaning it might be a $10-$15 fine, 3)If she was being an ass about it.
Barring that, the cop may well have been being a dick, but psychopath? Don’t see it, not for that anyway. Besides, seeing that the light was indeed out, the ticket was earned and day of the year is meaningless. Profiled? Likely, as being the only car on the road in the middle of Indiana on X-Mas eve, otherwise? Spare me. The middle of Indiana has a lot of ‘poor’ people in it, including a lot of cops that I know personally* so I doubt there was any kind of profiling going on.
*(Indiana pays their cops next to nothing and screws their pensioners even worse -another life ago, I applied for Gary PD and when they told me they paid $9.75 an hour and you had to split your leathers, I handed the app back and told em no thanks-)
@ Contrapuntal
Whatever. Seriously though, help me out here. Are you law and order types just mentally limited or what? Are you really not able to see that the rules and the law are just representations of our best understanding of good and that mindlessly adhering to them is really sort of pathetic. Are you really going to sit there and tell me that the case as presented by the OP is not one in which a simple warning should have been issued and the fact that it resulted in a ticket is somewhat outlandish and lame?
So what’s it like, living in that world? Is it sort of nice because you get to turn over all of your decisions and opinions to the authorities? Is it comfortable knowing that as you go through the day the thugs with the biggest sticks are making all of your choices for you and all you have to do is follow along and believe that no matter what the people that they oppress get what they deserve? Or do you ever have a dim moment of actual individual though and feel sad for how much of yourself you have had to give away our of fear?
You make me sick.
If the officer ticketed her and then sent her on her merry way in a blizzard, with a tail-light out, and two children in the back, perhaps we should be calling him a sociopath instead?
Until just now I had no idea I was a “law and order type.” Nor did I realize that I had advocated mindlessly adhering to the rules and the law. Thanks for cluing me in.
What’s it like taking a microscopic button and sewing a XXXL vest on it? Your deductive powers are staggering, given the paucity of information you have to work with. Your description of me and my world is completely disconnected from reality.
There there now. Why don’t you have a nice cuppa and find a fainting couch somewhere before you hurt yourself with all this indignant outrage?
Wow, you sure told me. Direct question time: Do you or do you not believe that the woman that the OP was talking about deserved a ticket?
I don’t really give a shit about Christmas, I never claimed he was obliged to do anything. It being a holiday is just as good as any other reason for the guy to not be a douche.
I never called him a psychopath, just a dick. And a douche.