BF2S Forums Cop Who Ticketed Himself Reaps Praise

He didnt ticket himself to penalize himself...there is obviosly an underlying reason he did it...

What a dumbass.

Bad Side:                                                       Good Side:

Stupid (net weight 3 grams)                              Noble (net weight: 3 grams)
                                       
                                                                      Brave (net weight: 3 grams)

Total weight: 3 grams                                    Total weight: 6 grams



                           Good outweighs the bad. The guy did what few would've done.

Last edited by Archer (2007-02-22 13:52:51)

It still amazes me how negative and closed minded most posters are here.

2tuff wrote:

He didnt ticket himself to penalize himself...there is obviosly an underlying reason he did it...

Media whore in the making.

You people are just jealous you don't have the moral integrity to do the same...lol

What he did was still wrong, but he got the same punishment as anyone else who would have committed the same offense. Of course it was dumb, that's why it was against the law.

Last edited by Flaming_Maniac (2007-02-22 15:57:25)

Nobody points out that he's still a dick for driving past a school bus? How do you not see a big ass yellow bus & how do you not think "STOP" when you see the lights on it?

I mean of course that's very noble of him but he still coulda took out a group of kids. I don't think I have ever seen anyone drive past a school bus that was unloading or loading kids in my entire life because I don't think anyone is that dumb.

Still though after thinking about it I guess the good outweighs the bad since he didn't hit any kids.

*Edit:* Is it even legal to write yourself a ticket? Isn't that kind of the same thing as getting yourself out of a ticket, except for the whole moral/ethical thing?

Last edited by MagikTrik (2007-02-22 15:53:17)

Not ticket self: "zomg hipogcrite."
Ticket self: "zome dumbarse lolz."

Media FT...?

I see people drive past school buses with their red lights on, and stop signs out, all the time.  Nothing new.  Bottom line; people don't think, or they don't care enough to start thinking, or they can't think.

Most people get indignant, if you point out their error.  Or, the get so defensive they start screaming like a righteous lunatic about how there should be a sign. 

I do take pleasure in pointing out the stop sign with the flashing red lights.

MagikTrik wrote:

Nobody points out that he's still a dick for driving past a school bus? How do you not see a big ass yellow bus & how do you not think "STOP" when you see the lights on it?

I mean of course that's very noble of him but he still coulda took out a group of kids. I don't think I have ever seen anyone drive past a school bus that was unloading or loading kids in my entire life because I don't think anyone is that dumb.

Still though after thinking about it I guess the good outweighs the bad since he didn't hit any kids.

*Edit:* Is it even legal to write yourself a ticket? Isn't that kind of the same thing as getting yourself out of a ticket, except for the whole moral/ethical thing?

You obviously don't live in NYC. Driving here is like playing bumper cars. No one really pays attention to the signs most of the time, most do it out of muscle memory, which means they'll run stop signs instead of actually stopping. And red lights and flashing lights mean nothing. Today, I rode the bus to work, and the traffic light turned red 5 seconds earlier, and there was NYPD trying to run the red light making a left turn, and after the cop turned, the bus drove on. It made me laugh, everyone else in the bus thought I was crazy. NYC cab drivers, forget about it, those guys don't give a shit what happens. No signal for switching lanes, no signal for turns, complete disregard for the safety of all including pedestrians and the passengers themselves inside the vehicle. When I was in Middle School, school bus driver actually called in a car that passed our flashing red lights, but nothing ever came of it. Goes to show, no one really cares.

I wonder if he'd have done the same thing if no-one saw him?

You notice nothing was said until it was found in some court documents.  He did the right thing...he spaced out, made a mistake, then realized it and punished himself the same as he would have punished anyone else making the same mistake.

If he was a "media whore" he would have reported it himself to the media, or had someone do it for him.

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he just might be a good person.