kolanuraven
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...she says while doing the Happy Dance!!!!
Now, let's hope they've ( the " law") not turned him loose already!!!!
Now, let's hope they've ( the " law") not turned him loose already!!!!
In order to believe this you have to believe all kids lie................I am sorry but they don'tWhat "else" were those young kids doing besides just driving? You didn't include what they "didn't tell you about their escapade?"
kolanuraven said:Our problem here is that we can't keep law. The pay is so crappy that they will stay and get trained then leave out for better jobs. I can't blame them for that one bit. We're a pretty rural county...a big county by Ga standards and we only have about 25K people in the whole county. That may sound like a lot to some of you....but here is extremely rural!!!!!
Anyhoo....we've only 1 deputy for every 10K people per shift. They divide the county up into sections w/ 1 deputy per section. It's hard to get from Point A to Point B in a hurry when you're only 1 man and have to wade thru 10K people. Plus, some of the law cars don't even have shotguns in them...they have to use their own long guns!!!
So, we're kinda on our own here in the hills of GA!!
Two A.M I'm coming home from babysitting my grandson,stopped at stop sign,proceeded,red and blue lights come on,baby officer tells me he stopped me because I didn't stop for the five second count.....tell your dad Soapweed he should be VERY happy he doesn't live in Alberta,I got a $289 ticket.And the baby cop on top of it had the nerve to call me MAMSoapweed said:I probably shouldn't even have posted my dad's story. Sometimes 83-year-old fellers can be a lot like teen-agers. :wink:
Here are some more ingredients to the equation: podunk town, no law enforcement when it is really needed, dark rainy night, no traffic, stop signs where most towns would just have unmarked streets with the usual "yield the right of way" understanding, over-zealous young second lieutenant type officer out to change the world, no compassion on his part to let Dad's nephew continue on to the lodge hall, and a $94 ticket when a $25 ticket could have served the same purpose.
A drunk going 70 mph down main street in our little town, ran into my wife's vehicle which was parked at the town hall voting establishment on election day. His van was totaled, and it skidded our pickup for over a hundred feet. The nearest law enforcement was in the county seat town sixty-three miles away, and they declined to come and investigate the accident because "no one was hurt."
jigs said:as a sophomore, I was clocked doing 76 in a 25 leaving town one night...cop chased me out of town, and I had a wire burn out in my distributor cap. took the cop 5 minutes to get to where I stopped. ( man I had him smoked....two more miles and I would have been parked in a friends barn)
after an hour of trying to start my car, he calls out a mechanic, he was sure I did something to it to use the "mechanical trouble" excuse I gave him.
so at 4 in the morning, he calls the folks to tell them he was bringing me home... pulls into the drive, and hit the cherries as he lets me off. we lived in town at the time, and every frigging neighbor got up to see me walk into the house.
I got out of a $400 ticket, and possible weekends in jail for 3 months, but the shame of every neighbor was horrible! not to mention the rath of dad..... still sends a shiver up my spine
jigs said:as a sophomore, I was clocked doing 76 in a 25 leaving town one night...cop chased me out of town, and I had a wire burn out in my distributor cap. took the cop 5 minutes to get to where I stopped. ( man I had him smoked....two more miles and I would have been parked in a friends barn)
after an hour of trying to start my car, he calls out a mechanic, he was sure I did something to it to use the "mechanical trouble" excuse I gave him.
so at 4 in the morning, he calls the folks to tell them he was bringing me home... pulls into the drive, and hit the cherries as he lets me off. we lived in town at the time, and every frigging neighbor got up to see me walk into the house.
I got out of a $400 ticket, and possible weekends in jail for 3 months, but the shame of every neighbor was horrible! not to mention the rath of dad..... still sends a shiver up my spine