Western Arab

Very recently, after pulling into a bank parking lot at night to just cool off a bit, a police car pulls up behind me. An officer approaches and rudely taps my window with his flash light instead of knocking on the glass with his hand.

The tapping made a loud enough sound and was hard enough to crack my window. I calmly roll down my window and he asks what I am doing to which I respond that I am sitting. He doesn’t seem very satisfied with my answer and asks if I want to elaborate to which I say no. He then proceeds to tell me that I should elaborate so he doesn’t have to “whip out the handcuffs” because it looks like I am planning to rob the bank. If I was in a better mood, I may have laughed but instead I stared blankly at him and said I am not planning on robbing the bank.

The officer seemingly irritated asks where I live so I tell him a couple of miles north of some street. He then asks me again and I give him the intersection at which he gets angry and asks me if I am purposely trying to piss him off. I tell him no, do you want my address? He asked where I live, not what my address is. So I tell him my address and he suggests I drive a mile out of the city and he leaves. Possibly the dumbest police situation I have ever been in.

Please don’t use your flashlight to tap on my window!

Florida Sheriff

It is hunting season in South Florida. I was out this afternoon in a car and there were police cars everywhere. They were hiding waiting for their prey to go by. Saw one pulled over getting a ticket in the summer heat of Florida. The state needs money and this is one easy way to get it, but what state doesn’t need money now? What state isn’t doing this?

Tickets all over the place. Would be nice if they ticket the people who actually don’t know how to drive, the ones that stop to move to the turn lanes and the like. And of course Florida drivers who don’t signal when turning. Those should be double ticketed!