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About the same as you described in #42 happened to me several years ago. My daughter was going to pick up her boyfriend (now husband) at the Toyota dealer where he had dropped his PU off for some work. She was trying to get the Pontiac we had through the parking lot and had to back up to get around a corner. A salesman guided her and let her crumple a fender on a new car. The sales manager agreed it was the salesman fault and said all was fine as they would use their body shop to take care of it. The next day Barney Fife calls and says they are going to issue a warrant for hit and run. Luckily I know the county attorney very well and called him to query the actions of the cop. I never heard back from the local PD, but the county attorney called and told me he had talked to the salesman who said she just drove off, but the sales manager backed my daughter. I guess the salesman got his butt in trouble and was looking to blame someone. Fortunately the sales manager was honest.

A couple of points I was only lightly getting to. What kind of person is attracted to, as they say, enforcing reams of minutia? Most cop work is boring. Who likes this? What kind of person keeps at it? In order for a normal person to stay with such a dis-system, they are required to shut down their active thinking. So, by and large you end up with a labor force of nitwit automaton, whom thinking is actually detrimental to ones employment, and in fact independent judgment forbidden. This of course requires ever more detailed rules. The system becomes a captive of itself. My cousins husband is a electrical engineer. He put in some low voltage lighting around his pool. The electrical code enforcer wanted him to drag 110 power to with in 7 feet of the pool. He had put the transformer at the house and run 12 volt out. It was crazy. The husband new the theory and practice and it made even common sense, but the code officer said the code is the code. He said otherwise some one would run extension cords, which could still be done. But this is how the clerks protect themselves. Don’t think. Don’t make judgment. Follow rules. If there is no rule, stop all activity until rules are, or are not issued. Wait for retirement, pension and then death.