[GeronL]

I’d say the two events were events were unrelated. lol

[OrangeHoof]

Your tax dollars at work...

[chuck_the_tv_out]

so many power freak cops

[Doogle]

5 yr old is mum...(pssst kid,if your dad mentions getting in a balloon, call the cops)

[discostu]

It takes him 5 seconds to apply the brake? Must be some crank or something.

[OrangeHoof]

So he and his boy are planning to feed the ducks from a 35-foot embankment. Do most people feed ducks from over the side of a cliff? Wouldn’t you need a pretty sturdy arm to throw bread crumbs or something like that to reach the ducks?

I’m probably missing something in the news account but it seems to me like they picked an odd place to interact with waterfowl.

[Born to Conserve]

I can’t get out of my truck without applying the parking break. It just happens. It’s involuntary.

[napscoordinator]

He was pretty stupid. Well deserved ticket. Probably should have been arrested. How much fuel and other stuff will go into the stream?

[Jeff Chandler]

"He hopped out, and I thought that was OK, I was just going to park,"

My children and now grandchildren are trained from infancy to remain seated and belted in until instructed otherwise.

I guess some folks are too lazy to teach basic safety to their children. Which is sometimes dealt with through natural selection, come to think of it.

[VRWC For Truth]

99.9% of the police are a-holes. Sanctioned looting of the taxpayers.

[ExCTCitizen]

"I say, 'Really? And if I did and my boy stepped over the edge and fell instead of the Jeep, then were would I be?' He says, 'Jail, for child endangerment.'"

I'd take the tickets but the cops are nuts in this case!!

[Iscool]

I didn’t see a sign that says, ‘no trespassing’ or ‘no parking’...Why the ticket???

[RightOnTheBorder]

Failure to use parking brake = you just caused a lot of people a pain in the arse getting you ride out of that river

Failure to produce insurance = Cop is an a**hole revenue generator and a good little jack boot for the state.

[Raycpa]

Any chance the story about having to save child was made up?

[CommerceComet]

We hear only this guy's side of the story and we're supposed to believe it. I witnessed a "situation" when I was in high school. It was reported the next day in the paper with the guy sounding as innocent than Jesus Christ in front of Pontius Pilate. The reporter only interviewed the perpetrator and all everyone heard was his whine story. If the reporter would have asked any of us spectators, it would have been discovered that the guy was lucky the cop didn't shoot his belligerent butt. The tickets the guy got that day were well-deserved.

[Clintonfatigued]

Police carping strikes again.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This must be judgment night or sumfin!!!

We are not told, and cannot see from the limited area photographed, whether only that particular parking spot is tilted towards a high embankment having no fence, and whether walking a few feet to either side would put a pedestrian in a safe area.

We are also not told whether the child had a habit of misbehaving like this.

Of course such details might flummox the “night court” here. Much more fun to pass them by.

[wastedyears]

Does anybody still think cops are on our side, at all?

[mellow velo]

Wow! Brings back memories. I grew up in the town adjacent to Winfield Park, and that town was so small, they were like the forgotten stepchild of towns. About the size of a postage stamp. We used to consider them a step above a trailer park.

[1FreeAmerican]

Around these parts the County would be sued for not having adequate curbs or bollards. He'd be looking at a $100k OOC settlement.