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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Rent-a-cops

I want to say, I am grateful to police officers. They serve and put their lives on the line for us everyday. What I don't like is cops, rent-a-cops, and military police that think their badge gives them the same title as king of the earth.
Today I had to take my daughter to the navy hospital to pick up her new wheelchair and have some adjustments done on her old wheelchair. I very rarely use my handicap parking hanger because I have the ability to walk across a parking lot. Today though I realized I would be handling two wheelchairs and a six year old by myself and thought I would need the extra space between cars in order to do so. As I was returning to my van there was a rent-a-cop/military cop standing in front of my van scraping my stickers off and issuing me a ticket. When I finally maneuvered both of the wheelchairs over to him to ask him why he was giving me a ticket he told me because I was fraudulently parking in a handicapped spot. The sign clearly states (in small letters) lift. Call me silly, but the sign says, "handicapped parking" and under that, it says lift. I assumed that meant the spot was larger in case you have a lift. Guess who was wrong....me. Because I don't have a lift on my van he decided to give me a ticket. Now one thing you should know. The navy DR's offered to give me a referral to get my van fitted with a $12,000 lift. I thought that was a waste of money and instead I would gradually break down my spine by lifting the wheelchair on my own and save the navy the money. I still however have to get in between cars and "lift" that chair into my van and still need the same space that the lift would require. So as you can imagine I then told the "cop" he could shove his ticket and use his time helping a lady "lift" these fucking chairs into her car instead. He ignored me and put my ticket under my wipers.
So to all you cops on a power trip out there, sleep well at night, knowing one day you will need someone to cut you a little slack or one day your wife might hope someone cuts her a little slack and they will laugh in your stupid face!!! You are the reason people hate police.