Some police officers really are bitches/assholes, just for the sake of being bitchy/ass-like.
I’m on a mission to get ping pong balls. I go to Target. They don’t have them. I think “I’ll go to Toys’R'Us.” I drive to TRU. They don’t have them. I remember while I’m there that there’s a Dunham’s Sports in the same complex as the Target I just came from, so I resign myself to heading back there.
I pull out of the TRU parking lot onto the service drive, and I’m maybe 500 feet from the traffic light to turn out onto Telegraph. I see a yellow light, step on the gas, check again, still see yellow light, and proceed through the light, pulling all the way over to the left and into the turn lane so I can bust a Michigan Left and head back south on Telegraph.
I see a cop in the rear view mirror with flashing lights. I’m all “what the…” and bitch comes on the loudspeaker and says “After the light turns green, pull over on the other side of the street.” (And she didn’t just say it matter-of-factly, she totally took a tone!) I wait for the light, wait for the other cars to go through, and then pull into a parking lot on the other side of Telegraph.
I already had my DL/registration/insurance out because we had to sit through that whole light. She asks for it, I hand it to her, and she’s half walking away already as she says, “I pulled you over for running that red light.” I yelled out, “I swear all I saw was yellow light” but she was already gone.
She does her business, comes back and hands me my stuff and the ticket info with the obligatory “read the card, it’ll tell you what to do.” She then informs me that she “did me a favor” because she only wrote me up for “disobeying a traffic control device” which is 2 points and gave me a warning on the red light which would have been 3 points. I can barely read most of the carbon-copied ticket info and I can’t at all read what she wrote in the comments section, but I do see that she has written “I saw a yellow light” in the box.
I can see how the light might have turned red as I was underneath it, but I watched that light as I went through it and I never saw red. PLUS, she would have also had to have run the light to pull me over in the first place. But that’s okay because she’s a cop and can do whatever the hell she wants to. I chalk it up to needing to fulfill her quota because the end of the month is coming up.
I am so going to court on this one.
