Nice lunch with Officer Friendly today

NOT!!!
I have had a rough day.

Had a little incident today that is going to take some money and time out of my life. Officer friendly decided that I was guilty of a non-crime and had to figure out how to squeeze me for a few coins of the realm and make my life a little more complicated for a short time.

My crime?

Not getting out of his way fast enough during icy conditions.

My charges?
Impeding the progress of Emergency Vehicles.
Careless driving
and Failure to show proof of insurance.

First, I know you go right for lights, just common courtesy. That and its probably best 'just to be on the safe side. Never know if or when they may lose control. Well, the roads are icy as hell up this way and I wasn't about to put a 4000 lb vehicle into the ditch when these guys could have easily gone around me. I did pull over when the shoulder had a clear spot BUT, that wasn't fast enough for one of the guys.

When he came up to the window, He POUNDED on the vehicle because my window was still up.(I was busy trying to sift through all of the corporate paperwork on the truck for the registration and insurance cards). Well, Maybe I shot myself in the foot but I Sllloooowwwwllllyyyyyy rolled down the window(this guy was all in an uproar when he was walking up to the drivers door, Not one ounce of 'civility' to speak of.) Instead of asking me for anything his first response was, "Are you F##king stupid and not see us?" Then instead of even waiting for an answer, he demands my DL and proof of insurance. I show him the mess I am trying to sort through and let him know its in there. I do pull out my drivers license which he immediately takes to his cruiser. Not one more word or even a minute to find the other piece he DEMANDED (not requested)
Now, it takes him about 15 minutes to run a check on me, See that I haven't had any violations moving or not, nor any criminal activity (do they count being a dissident yet?) nor any accidents in 15(!) years. When he returns I have found the card for the insurance, show it to him while he is handing my ticket, and his only response is "your court date is Febuary 15th, you can't prepay this ticket, you have to show up" and about the insurance card "Show it to the judge! you took too long to produce it."
At this time he gets back in his cruiser and leaves. I take another 10 minutes to just sit there and smoke and try and cool off. This Jack-knob was a complete prick, no sense of professionalism. He was all hyped up getting out of the vehicle, if it had been a 'routine' stop, I would have been worried about him since he is openly armed. This guy, to me, represents every reason why we want to change the course we are on. He openly displayed his contempt for citizenry, or even common courtesy. He could see the (near phone book proportions) mess in my lap looking for a piece of paper while I was sitting in a CORPORATE vehicle. How likely is it that a national corporation is NOT GOING TO HAVE INSURANCE? Then he completely stacks the charges up.

I can fight this one, and I am going to. I have to. My job could be on the line thanks to the wonderful 'service' this hired hand delivered to me this afternoon. I can have the insurance crap completely dropped just by appearing with a copy of it. The other two charges are the ones I am more worried about. That 'Careless operation" charge could cost me my job. Either way, it is going to cost me in my personal insurance(if it sticks) since there is no distinction between Private and Working conditions when it comes to your DL.

So, without disclosing names; Officer Friendly, if you are reading this,( and you will know its you just from the above description of events.) I want to thank you for your excellent discourse in screwing over a decent taxpayer. Your zeal is noted.