Mass cops are either awesome or assholes. You don't get any in-betweens. Personally they've been very helpful to me once or twice, but I've had some friends just get it up the proverbial ass for next to nothing.

Furthermore, I'll point out that there's a few areas on Mass roads, especially near Boston, where you are allowed to drive in the breakdown lanes during some parts of the day.

I was just proposing an alternate hypothesis. I have driven on the shoulder and gotten caught just as I described. Did she actually have the baby? I never read whether she did or not.

So you commented without reading the full article? then how do you know we don't know the full story? :eyebrow:

FWIW I agree with you.

As for criminals not asking the cops for help, mashfreak, -which planet are you on? That's dodge #1 in the skullduggery handbook. :rolleyes:

It seemed to hint that they "made it in time, but that was rather open ended IMO. I read the article, it just wasn't definitive.

It has happened! Boston airport, circa 1962, Frank "the Skywayman" Abagnale had disguised himself as a bank guard and tricked all the airport shops into dropping their night deposits, not into the "broken" safe, but into his special secure trolley. As he left with over $60,000, the trolley wheels got stuck in the sliding door tracks. Two airport cops helped him clear the door tracks and then load the loot into his station wagon since "the armored truck is busy elsewhere."

Imagine the meeting those two cops had with their boss the next day.

True, depends on who you are though. If a Somali (15-30 year old) in Minneapolis did that they would get suspected immediately.

That man is quite possibly the most brilliant man to have ever lived.

His biography is Catch Me If You Can. He did much better stunts than that, too.

I'm sorry. The cop was a dick. No two ways about it. There was no need for the ticket.

The purpose of tickets is allegedly to prevent future similar misbehaviors by the process of negative reinforcement of said behavior. How often is this woman going to be pregnant and need to get to the hospital in a hurry in the breakdown lane?

The cop probably has a little dick, and since he couldn't use his gun as a penis replacement in that situation, he used his pen.

I'm sorry, I'm just sick of how people treat each other. Sick.

We're responding to an editorial, not an article. The few details are slanted.

I don't think the trooper did anything wrong. Unless these people needed an ambulance there was no reason for them to pull in behind a trooper during a traffic stop. Actually, even if they needed an ambulance there was no reason to pull in behind the trooper. You're in a car having an emergency? Call 911 from your cell phone. Don't come in behind a cop during one of the most dangerous parts of his job.

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Even assuming they didn't make the best of decisions, did it warrant a ticket? Were they endangering the trooper's life? Is it possible that the couple was kinda freaked out about the impending birth and made an honest mistake?

Maybe they needed to be reprimanded, but a ticket - which took more time and further delayed them on their trip, and probably freaked them out more?

I'm sorry, I just don't get the need for a citation. It really smacks of "you've irritated me and I think you're stupid, so I'm going to write you a ticket because I can".

Cripes, if that's how things are, we'll have to write tickets to 95% of the people on the planet.

Don't be silly, the purpose of tickets is revenue. ;)