View Full Version : I need to vent and I can't do it on open forum....
I'm just a little bit pissed right now..... :steamed: :steamed:
I got in my truck today after having not driven it for a while. My wife was in a small wreck with her car, so she has been driving my truck. So I happen to glance at the center console and I see a City envelope which I immediately recognize as a PARKING TICKET!!! :steamed:
I look at the date of issuance and it was 20 days ago. Our City has a 21 day payment grace period after which the fines start to go up and your registration can be held up. Yes, the truck is in my name only....
So I go inside and ask MY WIFE WTF the deal is with the parking ticket and why she did not say anything................. :steamed:
So she turns to me and says, "Oh, is that what that is? Someone put it on your windshield when I was driving your truck a while back..." :steamed:
I made her pay it on-line while I looked over her shoulder....
Sorry for the rant. But this just pissed me off today...
Wimmins. Can't live with 'em. Can't shoot 'em. :supergrin:
JohnnyReb
10-09-2008, 10:14
That would have upset me too. Hey, at least you caught it before the 21 days were up!
Pepper45
10-09-2008, 10:28
I can't vent about my last parking ticket either. Our courthouse is located in a rather crowded downtown area, with metered parking. I parked my marked patrol car in a 2 hour space, plugged in enough for 2 hours of time, then went inside. Wound up I was testifying when the time expired, but no one would cite a marked car, would they? Of course they would, that city's parking nazis hit me with a $95 fine. My city eventually paid it, but c'mon, we're allowed to violate parking laws by state statute, if it's in performance of our duties. I'm thinking court testimony qualifies.
Idiots. Surrounded by idiots, and by parking nazis.
SPDSNYPR
10-09-2008, 10:44
Your parking nazis wrote a marked patrol car??????? WTF???
SAR - my wife has never gotten a parking ticket, but three times she decided to take my car and wroecked it. Once she hit a light pole, once she hit a deer, and once she backed through our garage door while it was closed.
If it weren't for the squish mitten they carry around, women would be hunted and hung on fences like coyotes. :supergrin:
Dragoon44
10-09-2008, 12:37
if a parking enforcement doofus had ever been dumb enough to ticket a marked unit, it would have been open season on them. and they know it, which is why none of them ever did.
We had a "Super Trooper" show up in out county, fresh out of the navy and now beginning a career as a FHP. He ran around running his mouth about how he would write police officers he didn't care, blah, blah balh, Finally one day when a bunch of us were together, (City, county, FHP shooting the breeze he started that crap, I told him,
"tell you what, there is one of you and over sixty of us, anytime you want to whip it out and start a pissing contest be my guest. Your fellow Troopers are NOT going to support you and The city and county are going to declare open season on you, on or off duty."
Never heard anymore of his BS. but he did stop and ticket and out of county Deputy in a marked unit passing thru our county on a prisoner transport. FHP admin came down on him like a ton of Bricks once the sheriffs association made their displeasure known. He said, he would NEVER do that again. I told him, "You should not have done it in the first place *******." Finally his fellow troopers got so fed up with him they convinced the station capt. to transfer him.
SPDSNYPR
10-09-2008, 14:19
A retired Okla City cop told me once how he was stopped by a trooper while he was going to a homicide call with his overheads on with no siren. The trooper had the balls to tell him to give him his license. The city cop told him he was under arrest, and told him to turn around and put his hands behind his back. The trooper looked shocked and said "you can't do that". The city cop said "you can't do this either," then got in his car and left, throwing gravel all over the trooper as he did so. Said he never heard a word about it later. The city cop is now very high up on the food chain at our state investigations bureau. He's a roit.
I have heard of many tickets being "lost" in the shuffle at the County Courthouse.
Knew a trooper once that wrote my old county's coroner, ambulance (during transport) and the SO's chief deputy in a marked cruiser. That trooper learned VERY fast just how much pull a 40-year (10 consecutive terms) sheriff has at the state DPS HQ. Trooper was transferred out to one of the state's "armpit" counties where he got to meet guys that drive pulpwood trucks.
I can't vent about my last parking ticket either. Our courthouse is located in a rather crowded downtown area, with metered parking. I parked my marked patrol car in a 2 hour space, plugged in enough for 2 hours of time, then went inside. Wound up I was testifying when the time expired, but no one would cite a marked car, would they? Of course they would, that city's parking nazis hit me with a $95 fine. My city eventually paid it, but c'mon, we're allowed to violate parking laws by state statute, if it's in performance of our duties. I'm thinking court testimony qualifies.
Idiots. Surrounded by idiots, and by parking nazis.
Well, I got a parking ticket in front of court while I was testifying also. Only it was in my personal car. I turned right around and went back up to the courtroom and told the judge. The judge basically said I was not free to leave his courtroom during testimony so he personally had the ticket dismissed.
Another time, a parking enforcement officer (they work for the Department of Transportation, not Police Department) was writing one of our undercover cars a parking ticket when the officers came back to the car. They badged the parking enforcement officer and said they were handling an "Emergency" (It was a Bank Robbery - silent alarm). The parking enforcement guy just said, "Good. I can hand you the ticket in person."
The guys brought it to me, and I called the Department of Transportation and told them I needed a DOT Supervisor to respond to the station in person. When she got there, I told her that what transpired was unnecessary. I also told her that my guys were so pissed that they were ready to impound and tow every single double parked meter maid on the boulevard. She took the ticket and left.... :rofl:
Dragoon44
10-09-2008, 16:10
We had a local dirtbag that got a hard on for one of our officers that had arrested him. He got the bright idea of following the officer around and making complaints on him. that lasted until I found out about it. I started a contest on my shift to see who could tag this guy with the most tickets.
By the time the next county traffic court date rolled around his drivers license was suspended.
Pepper45
10-09-2008, 17:37
Your parking nazis wrote a marked patrol car??????? WTF???
I should have been more clear. I work for a small municipal agency, and was appearing in circuit court in the county seat, about 25 miles away. Their parking nazis wrote me. They are an equal opportunity buddy****** though, they cited a half dozen of their own city's cars. There was a ticket war for a while, and some impounded parking enforcement Cushmans, before the city came down on the whole mess, and the parking tools were told not to cite that city's cars, but all others were open season. It's all political, the shop owners around the courthouse don't like all the parking issues, but they fail to realize that they wouldn't have any business if the courthouse wasn't there.
My chief has decided to pay any tickets we get from that city's parking clowns.
Shasta69
10-09-2008, 18:12
<<sexist remarks on>>
If it has tires or *its, you'll have problems.
<<sexist remarks off>>
nikerret
10-09-2008, 19:22
<<sexist remarks on>>
If it has tires or *its, you'll have problems.
<<sexist remarks off>>
imagine the mayhem when the two forces combine
imagine the mayhem when the two forces combine
On cars and women:
#1)
My wife has been stopped by the City motors more times than I can count or maybe more times than she tells me... She has this bad habit of flashing my business card with her license. The last time she was stopped by the CHP she flashed my business card as usual and he wrote her a ticket. She couldn't understand why the Chippies would write her a ticket. I simply told her, "WTF did you think it was a get out of jail free card?" :rofl:
#2)
Late one night I pulled over a Mercedes that passed me on the freeway at 100+ miles an hour. Now I don't even carry a ticket book and never write cites. So I walk up to the car and it's a beautiful Hollywood model. She decides that handing me her license and flashing her boobs would get her out of a ticket.
So now, I gotta radio for a patrol car to meet me and write her up for 100 miles an hour. She's not happy and she asks me why I am writing her a ticket after she showed me her boobs.
I told her, "Miss, I wasn't even gonna write you a ticket. I was just gonna tell you to slow down. But when you flashed your boobs, I HAD TO WRITE YOU A TICKET. Just so you won't go bragging that a cop let you go when you flashed your boobs. By the way, they rocked... :rofl:
SPDSNYPR
10-10-2008, 01:11
Best boob story of the night, SAR.
On cars and women:
I told her, "Miss, I wasn't even gonna write you a ticket. I was just gonna tell you to slow down. But when you flashed your boobs, I HAD TO WRITE YOU A TICKET. Just so you won't go bragging that a cop let you go when you flashed your boobs. By the way, they rocked... :rofl:
Good man :supergrin:
The cop that wrote the book on community policing, literally, wrote himself a parking ticket. He's the guy that started the whole craze and has travled the whole country training cops to be just like him. He's from NJ but I forget what dept. No wonder community policing is such a sham.
Orlando Eric
10-16-2008, 05:10
Story from the academy Our instructor says he was working for crime scene driving the van and was at the time a sworn officer. THe van has the usual markings and a light bar.
He was stopped in the city of Stuart for a tail light out. He explained he is on the way BACK from autozone and showed the city cop the recipt and tail light. He said you knwo what a pain in the butt it is to get anything from the shop so I just decided to replace it myself on my day off. The guy writes him.
He demands a supervisor. The Sgt shows up... (also an instructor at the academy) and simply states.. "I stand behind my men 100%)--
I have also heard stories for the reason he stands behind his men...
eaiser to stanb them in the back that way..
PuroMexicano
10-16-2008, 08:53
The Sgt shows up... (also an instructor at the academy) and simply states.. "I stand behind my men 100%)--
I suppose he stands behind them to f.them up the bleep!!!
What a pair of asses. :upeyes:
Don't feel too bad about finding a parking ticket in your vehicle. I got in my wife's T-Bird one day and asked her "how long has the oil light been on and haven't you noticed that knocking sound when the engine is running?" She said the light had been on all week but the knocking sound only started a couple of days ago.
Wow, where I work in SE Texas law enforcement, I have not heard of much of that.
We know what professional courtesy is and we always extend it.
I was sitting at a stop sign the other day (hiding off in the distance) and an EMS unit rolls smooth through it. I just turned my lights on while I sat there. I think they got the idea.:rofl:
I used to do the parking enforcement thing for about 1 1/2 years before being sworn. I never even thought of writing a marked unit, or even a vehicle I knew belonged to a cop. Just seemed to be common sense to me.
Dukeboy01
10-26-2008, 09:51
Gawd, I love this forum. If this was posted in "Coptalk" we'd have two dozen trolls griping about us abusing our authority and and accusing us following their hot wives 20 miles through 7 jurisdictions to write them a ticket and/ or see their boobs.
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