Tuff Cop??????????

[dmccarty]

jwnge,

Sounds like he overreacted. I would go to court over the ticket. Take pictures of the "intersection" and take them to court.

After the case is resolved I would complain to his supervisor.

In NC, you can't pass in an intersection or park in one for that matter. I had a problem with my nieghbors parking in front of my driveway/mailbox. They had to many cars at their house and not enough room to park them all so they would park in the street. Their house was in front of a T intersection so they where constantly illegally parked.

I called the POlice numerous times to get them ticketed for parking in front of my driveway or mailbox. We tried to be nice about the situation but after awhile nice don't get it done. So they got lots of tickets until they learned to not block us in or our mailbox.

They NEVER got a ticket to my knowledge for parking in the intersection. The officer used discretion in not giving one and that was fine.

In your situation it sure seems that if there where no yellow lines and the intersection was ill defined you might get out of the ticket. But who knows what a judge will do.

Telling you to shut up after a simple question is out of bounds. Since the ticket was written I doubt there was much he could do at that point so there was nothing he could do. But he should have answered your questions.

Later,
Dan

 

[BB_TX]

I am with the others. I would either write a letter to or visit his supervisor in person. Whether you were guilty of a traffic violation or not is not relevant to his actions. His supervisor needs to know about those kind of actions before something more serious happens.

 

[Currmudgeon]

Reminds me of an incident that happened in a small town that shall not be named. The Public Works department had a party out behind the DPW garage, with babecue and beer. They do this every year. The town cops were invited, came and helped eat the barbecue and drink the beer.

Shortly thereafter, they busted the Public Works Operator leaving the site, for DUI.

The next morning, he dug up the water service to the police station, and removed the pipe. He claimed it was leaking. They had no water to the police station for a month. It takes a long time for the parts to come in, you see. Particularly when they're locked in your bottom desk drawer.

The town police are no longer welcome at the Public Works party, and the cops have had to move their own party out of town to avoid the smell of burning garbage from the DPW lot next door.

Ain't small towns neat? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[jwnge]

First, thanks for all the input.. I had decided not to do anything and just pay the fine because I thought it would be paid in the area where I got the ticket, Onieda Nation, and I didn't want to deal with them. My wife told me it would be in a different town, Appleton. I decided to photocopy and mail in a not guilty, and then they will set up a court date. Last night I basically copied and sent the letter I posted here along with my wifes written take on what happened to the Chief of police, Asst. chief of police ,and Lieutenent of the police dept where the officer came from. As of now, I have not got a response nor do I expect one. I will take a copy of the mail to the judge at my hearing. I also looked into Wi. road laws and found the ticket would be valid inside city limits, not outside town unless clearly marked. I also found where if the officer had pulled out into traffic with vehicles coming from either direction, regular right lane toward him, or car passing another car in his lane as I was, toward him, he would be at fault, not to mention possibly hurt or killed. I went back and took pics of the intersection and absolutly no kind of no passing zone, only Hy. sign of road. Just a half mile closer to town was another intersection, and it was marked clearly with a no passing sign and double yellow painted lines on road and a hy sign. I totally think this is a wrongful ticket and hope to beat it. The real bother is from the officer and the way he acted and treated us, this I would like to see stopped before he meets up with a hothead who won't just shut up to get away from him , but who really confronts him and gets really hurt by this rogue... thanks again for all the input, it helped greatly to quell my fear and anger ...JohnJ

 

[BigDave]

Sounds like a good plan.

When I was a teen I was stopped by a young cop for riding my bike two-abreast on a country road with little of now traffic. The cop came from the other direction and decided that we were breaking the law. The law was on our side but, that's not the point. Because neither of us were old enough to have a driver's lisence, the officer just seemed to get mad when he realized that there wasn't much he could do other than give us a bunch of you'll go to jail type threats. Anyway, about a month later, I read that he was fired for being overzealous.

Good Luck.