To the officer who gave me a several hundred dollar ticket (instead of a verbal warning) during which I was quiet, patient, and very polite:
Next time you need to make quota, or have nothing better to do, please spend your time addressing issues of violence, assault, and theft within our neighborhoods instead of patrolling the streets surrounding the party you broke up not even fifteen minutes previous.
I was just going home.—Angry on Agricola
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2010.
Aah too bad, so you’re pissed off because the cop did his or her job, boo-hoo.
Also, “Officer I was quiet, , patient and very polite, can you let me off with a warning for the (insert crime here) I did”.
OP needs to mention what they got the ticket for. Come on! Have some common sense. Was it for riding a horse without proper horseshoes? Holding a circus on the sabbath? Inter-provincial trade of raw unpasteurized milk? I knew it! You filthy rebel milk merchant you!
If you were speeding, ran a red light, talking on your cellphone while driving… then I have no sympathy for you. Expecting a warning instead of a fine because you were polite sort of reeks of entitlement too.
If you were breaking a law, then you deserved that ticket just as much as the next guy/gal.
What they said.
I’ve never understood the argument about addressing violence and assault (same thing innit?) theft, etc. It is the job of the officer to enforce the Motor Vehicle Act.
It’s like telling a doctor, stop fixing broken arms and just do heart surgeries.
Guess I’m among the minority here when I say I agree with the OP. It’s a sad society we live in, when people have nothing better to do than penalize others for minor things. It’s the whole picture here, not just this specific incident. There are more productive, kinder ways to deal with situations.
i guess i’m the only one with enough deductive skills to see that the OP was busted walking home from a party. probably had half a beer in his hand.
bored, small town cops looking to bust someone they know wont give them any trouble.
a friend of mine got a $500 ticket for drinking a beer on the commons at 6pm on a saturday.
Bored cops need to feed a cash hungry municipality.
Is it really illegal and punishable to have an open “container” of liquor in a public place? I see laws against having open liquor while transporting in a vehicle, but nowhere do I see laws against open liquor while transporting by foot. If this is what the OP was charged with, I would have asked to see the Act which prohibits this.
You usual pundits are hilarious. Everytime somebody posts about the frustration of getting a ticket, you all chime in with the usual: “sorry OP, you break the law you pay the fine….”
As if none of them ever break a minor law or get frustrated when they get a ticket. The poster clearly recognizes they did something wrong, technically. The point of the post is to grumble about how it is a drag that the Police wait around when and where they know people are going to do something fine-able, and bust them on it.
If this dude was carrying a beer home from the party – who cares? Make hime dump it out and get on with your lives. Writing a ticket is technically allowed – doesnt mean the cop can’t use some discretion to decide if buddy is really such a menace to society that he deserves a huge fine he can’t afford.
Even if its speeding. Everybody speeds from time to time. If you disagree, you are a hypocrite; I know your speedometer has hit 51 in a 50 zone…
How many people have been yanked by the police right at a junction where the limit goes from 90 to 70? They know nobody slams on the brakes when they pass the 70 sign, so they wait and ticket people for basically going the speed of traffic. If you don’t think they do, you are naive!
So let buddy vent! It sucks to get a ticket for a trivial offense. I’m sure he learned his lesson. Probably doesn’t need The Coast LTWWB peanut gallery cheering on the cops like a hoard of cheerleading school children at a recess fight…
They need a reason to pull you over before they can make their “quota”, dumbshit.
Jonno: Section 54, number 4, paragraph after the end of (c). http://www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/legc/stat…
Sucks when you get caught breaking the law, huh OP?
Be a big girl or boy and pay the fine. Next time don’t break the same law, or be better at hiding it (milk smuggling? Did I hear that right?)
public intoxication?
yeah, I was thinking it was the public intoxication too…
even if they didn’t have a beer in hand, cops know it was a party and they were likely staggering home.
Ah, there it is…. thanks SwampDonkey…. just over-read it. In that case…. OP, you’re a tit. Be better at hiding or quicker at drinking. Serves you right for doing something you surely walked out the door HOPING no cop would catch you doing.
Just learn where they ‘hide’ and you won’t get tickets. I speed all the time, but I know where they ‘hide’ so I slow down in those areas and wave at them as I pass by.
TOMD called it right. HRP should just make it official and change their name to Halifax Regional Revenue Service.
You guys really are delusional. Why so upset at people for doing their jobs? Cops give tickets for infractions. That’s their jobs. Doctors fix people. Teachers teach people. Builders build shit. Window washers wash windows. Cops give tickets. Get used to it.
If you don’t want a ticket, know the laws and obey the laws.
You really think this is a cash grab by the city? What difference does it make to Constable X if he gives a ticket or not? He doesn’t see a dime of it, and against popular belief, there are no quotas.
My fuck people.
|How many people have been yanked by the police right at a junction where the limit goes from 90 to 70? They know nobody slams on the brakes when they pass the 70 sign”
Umm.. I do.. all the time. The speed limit is there for a reason, there is a difference between going 5 over it or just 1.
You slam your brakes on while driving on the highway – all the time? Because you see a sign? Liar….
Get rear-ended often?
I was wondering who the goofball always slamming the brakes on while driving at highway speed – freaking everybody else out and almost causing an accident – was…. Mystery solved!
Fight it in court. I’m sure the cop would love the OT.
Actually, if you show up for the hearing in court, and the cop doesn’t appear, the charges will be dismissed due to lack of evidence… The Police have to appear in court (often on their days off) in order to be the main witness to the crime.. if they miss the hearing (for whatever reason) there’s no evidence to convict…
Is that something you know first-hand or something your cousin Zeke told you?
Just sayin’
Im going to go to court, make my appearance, and pay the fine if the officer does show up. I’m not bitching about getting a fine. It happens, I deserved it, I’m accepting that.
What gets me is how I was treated like a complete fucking idiot. Police have no right to go around acting like total dicks when it’s completely unnecessary. Maybe if I had been mouthing off or arguing I’d accept their behavior, but the fact is I wasn’t and I still got treated like crap.
I don’t care if they’ve had a long night or whatever, if their job is to “serve and protect” then missing a cup of coffee or having a bad sleep is no excuse to take it out on someone who doesn’t deserve it.