Ash
Member
Heh, you know, in our fair city merely a block from you my wife parked her car at my office (down from city hall at the time). It was legally parked at a diagonal. She used my Jeep for the weekend to shuttle our little tyke about. At 2:00AM, she gets a call that there has been an accident with her car and that she had to come down there. An officer had slammed into said legally parked car, spinning it about so that it was facing up the street, parallel with the curb. The car was totaled and could not be driven. At 2:00AM, mind you, the officer tried first to blame my wife for illegally parking. When the skid marks were shown to have originated from between the painted lines, she claimed she was driving down the street, checking doors to make sure the shops were safe. Except she was driving fast enough to spin my wife's car (this street, as you know, is basically two blocks long).
Well, long story short, the police agreed that my wife was not at fault for the accident (given she was asleep at the time and the car legally parked, this should have been obvious from the start). However, they did cite her for not having her driver's license and proof of insurance with her. My wife had come down to the scene with our 3 month old after having been awakened at 2:00AM by a telephone call. She forgot her purse at home.
Well, the city attorney is in my Sunday school class and he was pretty underwhelmed by the whole thing and ensured the ticket would be torn up.
Now, I want to emphasise that in this small town the police are generally pretty good. However, CYA occurs, and this officer was certainly trying to C her A. However, it was capricious to give my wife a ticket for not having insurance or a drivers license at 2:00AM after having to drag herself out of bed with an infant.
Ash
Well, long story short, the police agreed that my wife was not at fault for the accident (given she was asleep at the time and the car legally parked, this should have been obvious from the start). However, they did cite her for not having her driver's license and proof of insurance with her. My wife had come down to the scene with our 3 month old after having been awakened at 2:00AM by a telephone call. She forgot her purse at home.
Well, the city attorney is in my Sunday school class and he was pretty underwhelmed by the whole thing and ensured the ticket would be torn up.
Now, I want to emphasise that in this small town the police are generally pretty good. However, CYA occurs, and this officer was certainly trying to C her A. However, it was capricious to give my wife a ticket for not having insurance or a drivers license at 2:00AM after having to drag herself out of bed with an infant.
Ash