"Come on, man"

[Thom]

@just_jack

I stopped a very well known D1 football coach once upon a time many moons ago for a traffic violation. He got a ticket. He didn’t tell me who he was and was very polite and apologetic.

Can we we play guess the perp? Rick Neuheisel?

[ike]

@Durhamskier

Same. I had a long list of people that I generally wouldn’t issue a ticket to unless they talked their way into it: Doctors, nurses, firefighters, paramedics, etc.

Genuinely curious: how do you know their job? Do you ask? Is it on some database linked to their license?

[Durhamskier]

Back then (it’s different now) every stop was not documented in a way that associated a vehicle to a driver; there was a card you had to fill out that would then go into a database where others could access that information. It would associate a person to a location, at a specific date and time, and a vehicle if they had one. Then you could also add text like “Caution -speeding 15 over”.

Now, I don’t know how it’s done as I haven’t been on the road in forever.

[Durhamskier]

Paramedics and firefighters used to have stickers on their vehicles, usually so they could park at fire halls / hospitals etc. (this was a long time ago, before plate readers and automatic gates etc.)

Nurses would be wearing scrubs, and Doctors would usually tell you. I didn’t pull over many Doctors or nurses at all.

[RandMart]

Somehow, and thankfully, the post below (from 2005, mind you) survived The Snap

OT : court/ticket

A friend of mine is a writer and musician. This is his story: Amuck in America by Joey Sweeney En Route to Minneapolis, June 4: Night 14 After playing Bloomington via Nashville, and Chicago the night after that, The Trouble has slipped into a Midwestern loop that will pretty much take up most of the rest of the tour. What this means in practical terms is that the drives get longer as we crisscross the flat expanse of the American heartland and that, in doing so, we will have plenty of time, …

[just_jack]

@Thom

Can we we play guess the perp? Rick Neuheisel?

No comment. Whenever I mention anything from my LE career I self censor and keep it purposefully generic so my comments can’t be tied to a specific case or person.

I know it may seem quaint given our current .gov reality, but I respect the privacy and dignity of everyone I interacted with professionally - suspects, victims, DUI drivers, whomever.

[klehner]

@just_jack

I know it may seem quaint given our current .gov reality, but I respect the privacy and dignity of everyone I interacted with professionally - suspects, victims, DUI drivers, whomever.

Aw, come on, man!