Posted on 05/02/2009 3:57:28 AM PDT by Slump Tester
CLEVELAND (AP) The sister of an Ohio soldier killed in Iraq was ticketed for speeding and missed a ceremony awarding him a posthumous Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
The ticket was issued by a state trooper to 25-yearold Rebecca Davis of Cuyahoga Heights along Interstate 77 on Thursday despite her request for a warning and to call and confirm her situation.
The ticket was withdrawn about three hours later when a State Highway Patrol lieutenant went to the funeral home and apologized. A relative of Davis, who is a police officer, had called to complain about the ticket.
She was ticketed heading to an award ceremony for 21-year-old Spc. Brad Davis of Garfield Heights, who was killed last week in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq. Burial was planned for Friday
Even his shield did not get him out of a ticket with the State Trooper.
It really ticked him off. He made the point that professional courtesy among LEOs is pretty universal.
He said that he told the trooper the difference between himself and the other people passing by on the road is that if he saw this trooper having difficulties by the side of the road (with a criminal beating him for instance) is that he would stop and help.
The point is that nobody but nobody gets a break for Ohio Highway Patrol.
Not a lot of info in this article.
Why was she running late for such an important event?
With a relative in the police force, did she figure speeding didn’t matter since she could just have it cleared with a phone call?
Is her relative a superior to the office who ticketed her and to the one sent to the funeral home to apologize?
Does she have a history of getting away with things you and I couldn’t because of her connection?
Did she have a bad attitude and was it met in kind?
My strategy on the turnpike is to either stay with the flow of prevailing traffic with the occasional car passing or avoid it entirely (most of the time).
In the summer I dont even consider the turnpike because it is construction season and I dont want to deal with the slow and stopped traffic.
1. I am not a cop hater
2. oh, Ohio?? I didn’t notice that. Nevermind. She’s going to get a ticket. Even down here in GA, I know that.
The police are trained to assume that you are lying. Especially when you are under suspicion. Often it is difficult to like people who assume you are a liar. The relationship between civilians and the police is more often than not adversarial for this reason.
You can count me among the cop haters. I used to respect them when I used to liver in NYC as cops there truly had to deal with dangerous people to keep the rest of us safe. Ever since I have gone to the suburbs, the only time I see cops is when I spy them in ridiculously low speed limit zones, trying to raise money for the state and locales through speeding tickets. Of course now they have cameras doing a lot of the dirty work.
Not in your case.
I dislike cops and am proud of it. I would rather see gang-bangers in my neighborhood than cops.
At least, when the gang-bangers get out of line, I can shoot them. I have to suffer the cops heavy-handed tactics and grit my teeth.
Cops are just tools of the government now. Deal with it!
C’mon Packrat, you’re dealing with the local coffee/donut troll for the FR Police Benevolent Association.
Watch yourself, or Mojave will start to ‘suspect’ you’re up to no good.
It’s the only way those jackbooted thugs can think, so don’t be too hard on ‘em.
You are right, she should have left earlier. I am sure she was upset but speeding is not lawful even speeding to a funeral. I have a daughter like this, she just can’t seem to arrive on time anywhere, there is always an excuse. If getting the ticket is what made her late she probably would have been late without getting a ticket. I haven’t had a speeding ticket in years, how long does it take if you say yes sir, I was speeding give me a ticket? 10 minutes at most?
See #53
The last ticket I got (last year), the cop took 30 minutes to finish writing. Your example is stupid.
Oh yea, it was thrown out by the judge.
We have a friend who used to be like that - always late to everything.
It took a lot of careful questioning, but we finally discovered that she had never understood that if you want to be someplace at 11:00am, you have to actually leave BEFORE 11:00am.
Seriously, that’s all it was. Once we convinced her of her error in thinking, she had a much better on-time track record.
The ticket didn’t make her late. This is BS. They withdrew the valid speeding ticket after verifying her story. What’s the problem?
Maybe she will leave earlier the next time she must be somewhere. If it’s so important that she be at the ceremony why didn’t they wait? Or was she way late?
I think it was - One ticket vs Very bad PR.
Political move - damage control, call it what you will.
Be interesting to see her driving history.
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