Just some of the stupid things I see

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Come on, they make it everyday. Someone, Somewhere right at this momnet is doing something stupid. Had a few today. The grand prize winner was stopped for speeding. Shut down for his log. Twenty minutes later, he was back out driving again. Thought I was going to let him ride right past me. I guess that great big arse 18 wheeler he was driving could not be noticed. Another driver, I will say it was a smaller truck under 26,000 lbs. Stopped for speeding, hands me a medical card that expired July 2011. Driver tells me, I have an appointment tonight. Even come back towards my patrol car and says I'm on the phone with the Doctor right now. I ask to talk to the doctor, nothing.....zilch....silence. There was no one on the phone. I hit the send button to see if I disconneced it, last call was to a "Fuzzy". I asked who his doctor was, as I recognized the doctor on the expired medical card as a long time family friend of mine. He said the doctor's name, the one I know personally from my hometown. So I called Doc, Doc is mid 80's, still a doctor that sees patients at his house. Doc said "I haven't talked to that guy in a long time, probably the last time I gave him a medical." Just as I thought, he thought I was a dumb arse.

Then had a local driver that was doing 15 over in a big truck. He was begging and pleading for a warning, or "just let me walk down the road please." as he stated over and over. He tried to hug me as I gave him the warning for speeding, but wrote him up for a bad tire instead.

 

Had one today. Local guy with dump bucket. Tags dead, IFTA revoked. 20,000 lbs overweight. Numerous out of service defects to include steering componets, suspension componets, 4 inoperative brakes, bad air lines, light issues, tire issues and frame issues. Stupidity is alive and well.