Another WTF moment

WTF!!!!!

Tuesday night, on our way home from Walmart, my wife and I were pulled over by one of Columbus’ finest. The officer refused to believe that I was sober until I clearly repeated the alphabet (damn! The one time that I actually WAS sober I was accused!). He was rude and condescending to my wife. He refused to believe that I wasn’t carrying drugs or weapons. He threatened to put me jail TWICE. Then he made us wait for nearly an hour while his backup and a tow truck showed up. When he finally came back to our car he said, “well I have good news and bad news for you…I’m not taking YOU to jail but I am taking your car to jail.” He told my wife to get in the backseat of the 2nd squad car so she could be driven home to get her car and then come back and pick me up. Then I was made to stand outside and watch my car get put on a tow truck until my wife showed up with her car.

So you’re asking, what did I do to deserve this treatment??? I was driving with expired registration tags!!! That’s it.

We were both wearing safety belts; I didn’t run a red light; I wasn’t speeding; I didn’t fail to signal; my car wasn’t leaking emissions; I wasn’t swerving; my tags were expired!!!

So because I forgot to renew my tags I was humiliated, my wife was treated disrespectfully. I had to pay $150 to get my car out of the impound yard. I have to pay an exorbitant fine (the cop said it was $250, I haven’t even looked at the ticket yet so I’m not sure). And I lost an entire day of work because I couldn’t get my car out of the impound until the next afternoon.

Let me parenthetically pause my rant in order to state emphatically that I am fully aware that it was my fault that I forgot to renew my tags. My birthday is in December (which is when I should’ve got new tags). At that time my wife was off of work due to major surgery. Since her car gets better gas mileage I was driving her car until late January. So by the time I started driving my car again, it had totally slipped my mind. Now that is no excuse. I should’ve gotten the tags before my birthday whether I was driving the car or not. So I admit that I screwed up. But COME ON!!!! You mean to tell me that I got treated like a common criminal because the sticker on the back of my car had an old date???

I wasn’t doing anything to cause public harm; I wasn’t disturbing the peace. Hell, it was cinco de mayo and I was sober!!!! I was threatened with jail time and my car was impounded because of a sticker on the back of my car.

Am I wrong or are the police sworn to protect and serve??? Cinco de mayo is a holiday where people get drunk and do ignorant shit. There were probably all kinds of REAL crimes happening all across town but this bastard cop wastes over an hour to harass me and take away my car. The cops are not public servants; they aren’t protectors…they are fuckin REVENUE GENERATORS!!! Their ONLY purpose is to collect money…hell I just heard a story on Anderson Cooper’s 360 show that the cops in some small town in Texas are pulling over blacks and Hispanics and robbing them! They pull you over for some bullshit (busted tail light or something) then tell you to empty your wallet and give up your jewelry or you’re going to jail and if you have kids in the car, they're going to children's services…

and they wonder why people don’t trust the police. I’m with NWA now…FUCK THE POLICE!!!!!!!!

…Just my thoughts…err ranting for today…