Police ticket man for broken windshield, in front of shop where he was having it repaired

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/08/1419535/-Police-ticket-man-for-broken-windshield-in-front-of-shop-where-he-was-having-it-repaired

Nick Berlin discovered a vandal had smashed part of his windshield and promptly made a call to get it repaired. When he drove to the repair shop for his appointment the very next day, he got a rude surprise, courtesy of an Adams County Sheriff's Deputy:

Just as he was about to pull into the auto glass shop, an Adams County Sheriff's Deputy pulled Berlin over and issued him a ticket for an "unsafe vehicle."

The auto glass shop owner and workers could not believe it, they saw the whole thing happen:

"We were just standing here in our door and were ready for his appointment and all of the sudden we see a cop out there writing the guy a ticket," shop owner David Sprague said. "We were pretty astounded to think that was what happened."

Images provided by Absolute Auto Glass show damages to the passenger side of the windshield. "He had plenty of visibility on the driver side," Sprague said.

Nevertheless, Officer "I'm Having a Bad Day and Now You are Too" didn't care and continued on with the $46 ticket. David Sprague said if police don't drop the ticket, he'll pick up the cost for his customer. Police are standing by their man......for now.

[Warpy]

1. He needs to take pictures and make a big deal out of this one

That's one bad cop who needs to be outed.

[brer cat]

2. That was nothing more than a power trip.

That ass needs to be off the force pronto.

[JHB]

6. Ah, but it WAS more than a power trip...

...it was revenue for the county or whatever entity collects those fines.

Your tax cuts at work.

[Kenjie]

3. Must have been trying to make his quota.

[malaise]

5. Thread winner

can't tax the rich.

[madokie]

4. Good man right here

David Sprague said if police don't drop the ticket, he'll pick up the cost for his customer. Police are standing by their man......for now.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

7. Tax farming

Authority has ceased to be a matter of the people instituting by their consent those instruments necessary to protect themselves, order their society and allow their communities to prosper. Authority has now become a self perpetuating parasite that imagines it may survive without its host.

[meaculpa2011]

8. I got a parking ticket...

while waiting on line at the Muni Meter.

Revenue... Revenue... REVENUE!!!

New York... Fun City.

[Orrex]

9. Damn this crack epidemic.

Classy move by Sprague, by the way.

[bmbmd]

10. The day my daughter got her license,

I got her a used Daewoo. We picked it up, noticed the inspection sticker was expired, and headed to the local garage to get it inspected. A rookie cop from Denison, Texas pulled her over, gave her a ticket, and made her cry. No amount of persuasion or explanation stayed him from being an ass. It is, so far, the only blemish on her record.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Can you say ... stakeout ? This should give repair shop owners nightmares.

Wonder how the COC folks feel about the PD stalking them for revenue.

[yellowcanine]

12. I would go to court. Judge might throw it out.

Usually in cases like this the most which happens is a repair order is issued and you have 10 days to get it fixed. Might depend on how bad the damage was so pictures would be a good idea to show the judge. In any case it would be good make the cop explain to a judge why he issued a ticket for a broken windshield in front of a repair shop.

[Duppers]

13. Car trapped in 2010 big snow in Baltimore.

A guy got up early to move his car before the legal parking time was up but he discover the deep snow, along with the snowplow's scrape-up, had entrapped it. It was impossible to move. Cops came with a tow truck and tried unsuccessfully to tow and empound it. Knowing they couldn't move it out either because of the snow, they booted it and left him a huge ticket!! As if he somehow could have magically moved the car under 4' of snow!

This poor JHU grad student was my son.



I hate, hate, hate Bmore cops-- for many reasons.