You got very lucky. My stepson lives in a small crappy town just outside of Philly. He was coming home from work a few weeks ago at 4AM. Hes a good kid, no drinking, no drugs, and works long hard hours for a pittance. His only fault is that he is sloppy as all get go. A deer ran out in front of him and he tried to avoid hitting it, but clipped a power pole. Car was still driveable, he had no cell phone, it was 4AM, and everything was closed. He hobbled up the road 1/2 mile to his grandma's place and called the cops who arrived before he finished making the call. To make a long story short, he ended up with $2,000 worth of tickets. This bastage of a cop picked stuff out of his rear end just to write it up because he hates this kid. Everytime something happens in the town and they do not have a definite witness to the contrary, they came knocking to ask where he was/is. If he did not supply a definitive answer with witnesses to bach him up, he got a citation for what ever offense had occurred. His mom had to move out of town to get away from the harrassment. Two weeks ago the boy tried to kill himself because he could not cope with the crap anymore. I was at the station to ream a cop a new bung hole, and thats what he got too. Every jerk cop in that station knew what happened, and that we were pissed off, and intended to go to the Governors office. The boy was OK thankfully as his girlfriend found him in time. There is now a formal complaint with the Governors office, and the state Attorney General got a copy as well. If the people don't speak out against crooked cops, they continue get away with their tactics. The police have a hard enough time trying to do a good job without a few bad jerks in there ruining their play.
