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Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:58 pm
by Mark
By WHDH-TV Staff and Associated Press
WHDH-TV
updated 6:17 p.m. HT, Thurs., Dec. 4, 2008
BOSTON - A local couple heading to the hospital with a new baby on the way ran into some ticket trouble on the highway.
Jennifer and John Davis were stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on Route 2 during the November 18 rush hour. With Jennifer's contractions just three minutes apart, her husband started driving in the breakdown lane.
The couple said two state troopers allowed them to use the lane, but when they ran into a third, he refused to cut them any slack on their way to Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.
According to the couple, the trooper had the couple wait while he gave a citation to another driver and then gave John an envelope and told him he would be getting something in the mail.
They received a $100 ticket about two weeks later.
Jennifer also said the trooper made her feel as though she needed to prove that she was pregnant.
"He came over and said 'What's under your jacket?'And so I said 'My belly.' And he waited and was just kind of looking at me, so I took that to assume he wanted me to open up my jacket. And I did," Jennifer said.
Their daughter Charlotte Jane was born hours later in the hospital
The couple plans to appeal the ticket.
A spokesman for the State Police said the trooper was using his discretion in following the breakdown lane law. If the Davis family decides to file a formal complain the incident will be reviewed.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:00 am
by stitch626
That is just wrong. That trooper should be drawn and quartered.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:11 am
by Mark
Power Trip...........big time.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:32 am
by Mikey
Have you ever noticed that most state trooper uniforms include tall, pull-on boots? That's 'cause they can't tie shoes.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:01 am
by Teaos
This is why people hate cops.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:05 am
by Mark
Mikey wrote:Have you ever noticed that most state trooper uniforms include tall, pull-on boots? That's 'cause they can't tie shoes.
And mirrored sunglasses, so you can't see the dumb look in there eyes.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:08 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Jackass.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:48 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
What a total asshat, here.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:35 pm
by Mark
Ha ha...........not a single supporter on the board it seems
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:20 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Well, who'd support something this jerkoffish, Mark? She's in labor! And the fact that the first two cops waved them on only adds to it.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:22 pm
by Mark
I wouldn't think anybody. But USUALLY somebody is willing to at least TRY and see it from the other point of view. Not so here. We're all agreed. He's a putz.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:23 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Good point, Mark. Yeah, he doesn't have a side, per se.
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:26 pm
by Mark
What ever happened to the good 'ol days of the cops giving a police escort to a car with a woman in labor?
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:41 pm
by stitch626
They went with Mikey's hairline.
(let me know if that was too much
)
Re: Woman in labor ticketed on way to hospital
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:11 am
by Mark
stitch626 wrote:They went with Mikey's hairline.
(let me know if that was too much
)
You should have kicked that one my direction. I'm the one with a five-head (it's bigger than a four-head, haha)