This is a section I am developing: to vent. Venting means your personal opinions are spoken and put on line. Privately (without your name) or you can have your e-mail attached.The Rules:
Each view must be recognized as a personal view, and flaming will not be tolerated. Cussing and nasty remarks will not be accepted to this page.
You have a right to venting, and getting something off your chest, but you do not have the right to flame that person because you disagree with them. This comes with a Truck Driver saying
Can't we all get along??? WE can and WE should, and everyone has a right to tell their experience on the road.
From Brandy My son had fallen in his crib the night before this incident with the police officer and busted the inside of his mouth open on his teeth.
That following day I was driving back from visiting a friend in Richmond, on my way to DC where I live. My son had been sleeping and I was traveling at the speed of traffic which was 80 mph. I was in the far left lane and all of a sudden my son let out a scream. I was blocked to my right so I could not get over....
so I sped up to get past the cars so I could pull off at the right side of the road. Just as I sped up I was caught on radar by this officer at 84 mph.
I told him what was wrong when he asked me and he did not seem to care nor did he look at the child. It turns out that my son had bit down just right in his sleep and reopened the wound inside his mouth.
The officer proceded to give me the ticket for reckless driving anyways.
He never did offer any help for the child or look at the child to make sure he was ok.
He did take the time however to point out that I had out of state plates and that if I could not make it to court that I could prepay which is the equivelant to pleading guilty to reckless driving. I have a clean record and have never even gotten a ticket before.I just think that the safety of my child should be important and what would you do if your child suddenly screamed ??. Now I could have slowed down...but that would have been obstructing traffic and would have gotten a ticket for that as well.
OPINIONS an opinion: That police officer should have tried a little harder to check the baby, see if you needed an escort to the hospital or whatever, make sure that you felt comfortable enough to drive without fear. Done a little more than worry about the ticket, as it is a well known fact, to pass, you must speed up a little and in this case, being what could have been a real emergency he should have understood the situation, and even if the ticket was issued, at least you would have had his compassion on your side. In this case, I would plead not guilty, let the judge decide, and hope for the best, that this officer thinks before he writes. Especiall the nit picking part about you being out of state.
STEVES COMMENTS:
As I said, this is a place to vent, not make hate remarks towards the person writing this. This is how they feel, and your comments and opinions are how you feel.Flaming that person, or the author, will not get your opinion or story on line.... This means, no matter how bad you hate what happened, You do not have the right to call names, etc.
