I got pulled over yesterday on I-84 just outside Hood River. When I saw the cop I was aware I was speeding. He pulled me over and asked "if I was was aware of how fast I was going?" I told him I was, and he asked how fast? to which I replied "I'm not interested in telling you that." This surprised him. When he came back with the ticket ($242 bucks!) he told me I was the first person to ever refuse to tell him how fast I had been going.
This surprised me, because I would assume most people would choose not to incriminate themselves by stating either their speed or saying "I was going faster than the speed limit." I could imagine a lot of people just lie and say they don't know how fast they were going. But that's lying and I may speed, but I'm not a lier.
So I've got to get started on my letter to the judge: It'll go something like this.
Dear judge,
I'm a nice person, never committed a crime, I serve the needy and am going to school to work for social justice and family values. I work for the salvation army and currently volunteer at the VA. Please excuse my ticket, or part of my ticket as I feel just awful about what I've done and currently only work part-time as I put myself through grad school.
P.S. is it really fair to have officer Vanderwerf hiding in the trees in a dark vehicle. such a presence might disrupt local wildlife, and harm defenseless Forrest creatures.
Love, Freyja
3 comments:
thats the man, keeping you down freyja :)
I think this letter would really help the judge to understand that officer Vanderwerf was actually do much more harm to others than you were.
Doesn't the cop know how fast you are going anyway??? Why do they even ask if they have it clocked on their radar gun?
You crack me up, and I wish you wrote a weekly column for the AP that was printed in newspapers all over the nation like Dave Barry's weekly column. You could be "Freyja, Miss Patty Fingers".
Honestly, the world needs to have more funny things for people to read in their newspaper every Sunday morning.
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