I love the police and appreciate the job they do. However, I hate those who abuse their authority.
When I was 18 years old, I was coming home from work. An intersection was under construction, and the scale that tells your car when to move was not working. I pulled up and sat there. I listened to two songs on my radio, and the light never changed. So it was easily 8 minutes that I sat there waiting.
I decided to run it. It was 11 pm, there were no cars in either direction. The moment I did, a cop who had been waiting in the darkness for those 8 minutes lit me up, stopped me, and ticketed me. When I tried to explain the construction, she said that if I spoke another word, she'd give me a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt. I pointed at the seatbelt I was clearly wearing, and she smiled at me. Threats of add'l ticket over a lie.
I saw her name in the paper a month later- she won an award as the cop with the most tickets for the month. She got a bonus and a plaque. She stopped me to pad her stats. She found a flaw in the road system and exploited it for her own gain.
She can kiss my ass. I remember her name to this day. I'll never forget that bitch.
