I nearly got thrown out of traffic school today!

[carrowsboy]

I argued with the teacher (a former cop) about the police & seat belt laws.

I told I thought seat belt laws were wrong cause I got a ticket & even had mine on and that the cop called me a liar when I objected. He said it was the cop's right & I said that it was wrong & could lead to corruption, that is when he flew off the handle!

He told me to look up corruption in the dictionary & maybe then I'd know what it meant, so I told him I didn't have to...I just had to watch TV and see the local cop traded sex with a woman to let her go free or the local station that is ready to overthrow the chief.

He told me to get a plane & fly to another country, then I might know how good I have it here.

I also brought up how I didn't think it was right for the cops to sit at Walmart all night with the cars running, which our tax dollars pay for. Not to mention that we also have a Chaplain police car and I said that I didn't want my tax dollars going to religion...something I do not believe in (Notice I said religion, not God). This woman pipes up that I must love Hitler since I do not believe in God. It was very off & I felt really on edge the last 2 hours or so.

Near the end he showed us his posterboard that he collects clippings of dead people killed by drunk drivers. He read us a few articles...one about this guy who drank and then killed a grandmother, daughter & grandson. Three generations wiped out by one drunk, as he called it. The guy got 16 yrs and the teach said he hoped he got a big, lonely cellmate to rape him everyday, "when he leaves prison he'd no longer feel like...person...you can see I don't want to call him a man."

Then as we were leaving he just keot saying over & over, "we need more laws...more laws. More....laws."

It was like being trapped in a David Lynch movie for 8 hours!!!

[gator_in_Ontario]

1. I had to go to traffic school some years ago...

and the "teacher" was none other than my high school driver's ed teacher! What a trip. And then there was this movie that was so cheesy (kinda reminded me of "Reefer Madness") everyone was laughing. Bottom line, it's just a big money-maker

[randr]

2. There's actually a school for traffic?

[Devlzown]

3. More laws

so they can arrest more people to put in bigger prisons and then they'll say we need more cops who arrest more people...........

[RC]

4. Hey, it's job security, correct?

[rfranklin]

5. Hitler was a Christian!

"Gott mit uns" was the motto of the SS!

My father was ranting about the Muslims and asked me about what Christian ever committed genocide. "Hitler," I replied. That shut him up (especially since he fought the Nazis at the Battle of the Bulge.)

[Devlzown]

7. It's more than that -- it's an industry.

These bastards aren't content with merely justifying there existence, they want to turn a profit while doing it.

[Toots]

6. You might have casually mentioned between Cheney and Bush*

they have five DWIs and you were just practicing for becoming president. I guess if our leaders don't respect the law why should we?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Why did you have to go to court?

I caused a wreck when I slid on a rain-slick highway and rammed into a 1969 Mercury, which saved my life (otherwise I would have gone down the side of a mountain). The real problem was the road was built improperly-curved banked wrong-and the cops even agreed with me. Hey, I was going a speedy 25 mph when it happened! Anyway, I was ticketed, but it was taken off my record after I went to traffic school.

I drove the teacher nuts. I sat in the front row, and eagerly watched every video and took copious notes. I waved my hand to answer every question, like an eager beaver. What could the cop do? I was trying to be helpful, and I was the only one in the room actually listening (even though it was all about drinking and driving, which had nothing to do with me, as I don't use alcohol). I sort of watched him sigh and avoid my eye. His face got red when he'd ask a question and I would be the only one to answer.

It was a lot of fun. The others were amused by my antics, and the cops couldn't do a thing. I mean, what could he say? "Shut up and don't pay attention like everyone else"?

[Exultant Democracy]

10. There is a turn on my road like that

steep and banked the wrong way, lucky for me it just goes into the woods and not off a cliff or I would be long dead. Five times now with 4 differnt drivers (me once)O have been in the car when it has slid right off the road, and it always hits the same tree.

[rocktivity]

9. Well, at least you weren't sent to the Drive By Driving School

I actually saw that painted on a car a few weeks ago. I had no idea that instruction was required to be a drive-by shooter, but it does make sense. You're not supposed to operate a car OR a firearm until you've earned a license, so it follows that you should need one in order to do both. However, I do NOT want to think about what the road test is like...

rocknation