I got a ticket today, doh!

[PKRWUD]

I don't for one minute find any justification for a cop being a jerk, but sometimes you need a wider perspective before a fair judgement can be made. This guy seemed pretty cool to me.

For example:

I got a ticket, he's a jerk. Okay on the face, but after examining it a little better, you can add that I was doing 65 in a 45. Dig even deeper, and discover there was a mexican grandmother hit and mamed in one of the un-signalled crosswalks on that street a few months ago. And truth be told, I was doing 70, but the cop only wrote me up for 65, saving me the mandatory $400 fine for exceeding the posted speed limit by 25 mph. So all in all, this jerk was pretty cool.

All I'm saying is there's usually more to the story than we hear, and I don't think it's cool to start off negative, and make them prove they're cool. I think law enforcement, fire dept., EMT's, etc are deserving of more respect than a clerk at 7-eleven, at least on the surface, but not to the point of justifying anything corrupt.

Take care,
-Chris