True story

[oiltech09]

Today I'm driving through a small town pulling my empty dump trailer, on the outskirts of town there is a down hill slope and I start picking up speed so I started pumping the brakes a lil, look down and I'm doing 54 mph, look up and see speed limit sign 55 mph about 50 yards ahead, then see a city police officer parked on opposite side of the road, as I pass the police car and the 55 mph sign he turns on the blue lights, makes a u turn and comes up behind me. Damn I think to myself.

He tells me he pulled me over for 55 mph in a 35 mph zone. I said it's a 45 mph zone and I just crossed the sign that showed 55mph, long story short he writes me a ticket for 55 in a 35, tells me to have a blessed day and I say hope you are pleased with yourself and take off.

About 8 or so miles out of this town I look in the mirror and see blue lights on me again, I think what the hell did I do now. I pull over thinking its a sheriffs deputy since I am way past the city limits. The officer gets out the car and starts walking to me, it's the city officer, I'm thinking now, oh chit, he didn't like what I said to him..

i lower the the window and he says sir I need to apologize to you, you were right, the sign is a 55 mph sign, you were in a 45 mph zone. He said after he wrote the ticket he made a u turn to go back into town, looked in his mirror and saw the sigh said 55 mph, there has been talk about changing the sign to 55 and I didn't know they changed it. I need to get the ticket back that I gave you and it will be voided. I start rummaging around looking for the ticket and he continues to apologize to me. He says it's ok if you can't find it, I will have my Sargent void it tonight. I find the ticket hand it to him and say you sure you are going to void this, yes sir and again I am sorry about this.


Folks I am not making this chit up, I still can't believe this officer had the integrity to admit his wrong, he traveled outside his jurisdiction to correct his wrong with me face to face.

[Bkt1]

Stand up guy. I always show them respect and have always been treated with respect. The tickets i got i felt like i earned. 2 in my life for speeding

[TRCM]

There are still some honest people in the world........it's nice to hear about it.

All the news mentions is the bad stuff.

[TMG]

Great story. Glad it worked out

[1Holeshot]

Great report of a standup LEO. My first clue he might be a man of integrity was when he told you to have a blessed day.

Good on you for taking time to pass this on.

[River-Bandit]

You must have been in Texas,,, none of the small town revenue generators (cops)would have done that in Louisiana , I swear this state has to have the most corrupt cops and public figures than anywhere else in the country,,, but anyway glad it worked out for you

[catch5]

My first clue he might be a man of integrity was when he told you to have a blessed day.

Good on you for taking time to pass this on.

I was just thinking the same thing....

[bobh4656]

An honest man. The way things should be. Good for the LEO

[Al from Canada]

[crawdadking]

Admirable

[Spinnerb8]

[billnorman1]

That's great to hear about a peace officer that did the right thing.
I had the exact opposite experience in Abilene Texas when I was in the service.
I was going to drive to Big Spring Texas to visit a friend. At 2 in the morning I pulled into a closed service station on a corner, got out of my car and bought a Coke from a machine. Got back in the car, started down the road when a car with very high beams pulled right up on my ass. I looked at the speed limit, 45, and figured it was either a drunk or a cop, and sure enough, the red light came on. I pulled over, he came up and said I had run the stop sign at the service station and was gonna give me a ticket. I explained to him that I hadn't even gone through the stop sign, I had left the service station at the corner on the road i was on. He said well, you were going 45 in a 35. I told him the speed limit was 45 he said it wasn't so he gave me a 45 in a 35 ticket.
I went to court, he was waiting to go in and called me over. He said he had made a mistake about the speed asked me for the ticket which I gave him. He then wrote me a ticket for 55 in a 45. I gave up and paid the ticket, I knew he would lie in court too.
Not all cops are honest, this A-hole wasn't and when you're living off $29 every two weeks it's worse.

[Dan21XRS]

Make sure you call or email his supervisor. He deserves a pat on the back!!!... Dan

[phupduck]

LEOs are people too.

[Always want to be Fishing]

Awesome

[basscatlildave]

Great story. He really deserves a pat.

[flipit]

[J D]

Great story! Thanks for sharing.

[yanknbass]

[fishin couillon]

There are no downhill slopes down south.....