Haiku #11-- Teenaged Girl Driver
Tears have no effect.
I will not be finagled.
Press hard while signing.
Labels: day at the office, police
posted by Matt G @ 4:34 PM
Sunday, February 17, 2008
About Me
- Name: Matt G
- Location: N, Texas, United States
I think that there's bound to be a way to serve myself, serve my community, and not take freedom away from good people.
Previous Posts
- Haiku #10: Negative Correlation.
- Decision point: Now.
- Aw, man!
- Hoka hey.
- Let's hold off on the over-reaction, shall we?
- Oh, come on!
- How close does it have to be?
- When good things happen to good people.
- ...as a larger rodent based in a privy...
- If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
7 Comments:
incredible pome
foot straight to the arse of teens
careful-don't get stuck
Years ago I moved from a large metropolitan area to a very rural area (there were black buggies on the roads).
Coming from the Big City, I had developed something of a ball bearing in my right ankle. And all those open, country roads didn't help.
Now, I could argue that driving ten to fifteen mph over the speed limit was a survival mechanism where I had come from and the argument could even have some merit. But there was no question that those same driving habits were totally unnecessary and completely inappropriate to my new circumstances.
Fortunately, the local state police in their unmarked Z-28s were very helpful with my recovery regimen. Sure, those tickets hurt, but the end result is that now I get acutely uncomfortable with driving more than 5 mph over.
Ironically, a few years later I moved back to a large metroplex and my new driving habits stuck. No doubt I caused some elevated blood pressure in a certain segment of the driving population, but I'm never a left lane bandit so I can still sleep soundly at night.
Keep it up. There are some of us who will never ask you why you aren't out catching "real" criminals instead of harassing helpless teens who are only trying to do their part to increase vehicular mortality rates.
If you can't pass the exam, you can't drive (on public roads). Kids should not be handed a license solely because they are 16.
Neither should legally blind senior citizens get one because they've always had one.
Yep, I totally agree. You have to straighten them out when they are young. If you don't, there is no telling what kind of criminal they will turn out to be.
I think all criminals start small. Get away with a traffic ticket. Work their way up to car thievery for a joy ride, etc. Let them get away with it just once and they think they can't get caught.
It took one time for me when I was a teenager. That cop was all business and he told me where I could wind up if I continued acting like I was. He put my ass in jail for a night.
I got out on an O.R. bond, paid my fine, did a weekend in the local lockup and have never though about doing anything illegal again.
Scared the shit right out of me. I thank that cop to this day because I was headed down the wrong path and he set me right. If I knew who he was I'd go thank him today.
Don't even blink an eye Matt. Everytime you hand out a ticket or make an arrest, you just might be saving a life. You might be saving more than one. Good job bud.
Joe
You just made my day. I am so putting this in the patrol room. Laud, laud the talents of cops!
Matt,
I read somewhere awhile back that teenage boys get pulled over more often than teenage girls do, but girls who do get pulled over are far more likely to get a ticket than a boy is.
Can you confirm, or was this just a wild rumor?
Who knows? My observations are anecdotal, at best.
But it seems to me that girls get pulled over at the same rate, but ticketed less.
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