This pissed me off!!!

[x-guy]

Hey BT, I understand your frustration looking at this from your viewpoint. But from my viewpoint as a police officer it gets tiresome when people bash cops all the time. In this case, you don't know for sure if the man had a heart attack. Since he was elderly it is common to put sensors on to monitor a patient after a traumatic incident. If he'd had a heart attack they would probably have more than just monitors on him, in fact IF the ambulance was still there the door would not be open.

In some cases, officers have to write a ticket on an accident. If your car was struck by another car you would want the at-fault person to get a ticket, otherwise the insurance company would go through all the hoops, saying their client was not at fault. And are you sure it was even a ticket he was writing? From driving by I don't see how you could be. He could have been writing notes, measurements or starting on the report.

I get the old picked on in high school stuff all the time. I wasn't picked on, at least to my knowledge. The fact is I've wanted to be a PO since I was about 5 years old. I love my job. Quotas are illegal, and last year I probably wrote 2 traffic tickets. Traffic is not my thing, although I understand the need for enforcement.

It just gets old when people start to bash cops. I've been shot at a couple times, once with an SKS. My partner was shot in the chest with a shotgun, while I was about 30 feet behing him I could feel the debree on my face from the buckshot hitting the ground in front of me. I'm not bragging, there are better cops out there than me. I'm just saying that there's a lot we do that people just don't get. When I go to functions I usually don't tell people that I'm an officer because the first thing they do is tell me the last time they got a traffic ticket they didn't deserve. A lot of people just assume that's all we do.

Again, I can appreciate how it looked from where you were, but it may not have been as it seemed. Sorry for the novel!

Good post, all to often cops are the first to get bashed and blamed without hearing the other side of the story, especially the media up here in Canada, if a thief gets shot, people wonder if police used to much force, if he gets away, the police were too lazy and fat to catch him, sometimes it seems they cannot win. There is some bad cops out there, this may have been one of them, but I guarentee the good ones far outnumber the bad in my opinion, and I would rather have a police force with a few bad apples, than anarchy.

 

[AmericanOutlaw]

Maybe you just don't know all the facts and are prematurely blaming the cop.
I was in an accident once where an old guy ran a red light and I t-boned him.Cops wrote him up and I wasn't real concerned.When I got to the insurance adjuster the old guy was there.They asked him for his license.He handed it over and the guy tore it up!The old man just about cried.I told the adjuster that what he did was kind of harsh.He told me that this was the old mans 3rd accident this month and they wanted to make sure he didn't kill anyone.kinda put it in perspective for me.

 

[XXL]

I was on my way to work this morning and came up on an accident. Appearently an older guy driving a van had some sort of medical condition and went off the road and hit a rock wall! The paramedics were working on him and I could see they had his shirt open and sensors on his chest. I would assume he had a heart attack. So while the medics are doing there thing there is an officer standing there writing the guy a ticket!!!

I mean c-mon dude! The guy just had a frikken heart attack and all your worried about is giving him a ticket?? Thats low! At least wait till he's at the hospital or even home!!

Just wanted to vent!

Yo, Big T, maybe you should become an officer, you seem to be able to get all the facts just by rubberneckin' at an accident scene. Maybe it was a citation maybe it wasn't, maybe the old fart was drunker than hell and if he had not hit that wall he would have hit you or some other person, maybe it was Jimmy Hoffa, I don't know,................. and you don't either.

 

[xc6rider]

All of our LEO's in my area are really good about only doing what is necessary while on scene at an accident, or even at a simple medical call. If we need them for something, they jump right in and will assist. If something warrants a citation to the individual we are working on, the LEO will generally contact that person at the hospital, or at another time.

Now if a LEO ever tried to hand over a citation to someone while I'm working on them, I would tell the LEO to exit and contact the person elsewhere.

But like I said, I've never had an issue with a LEO doing anything unreasonable while on scene.

 

[BigTruck]

Yo, Big T, maybe you should become an officer, you seem to be able to get all the facts just by rubberneckin' at an accident scene. Maybe it was a citation maybe it wasn't, maybe the old fart was drunker than hell and if he had not hit that wall he would have hit you or some other person, maybe it was Jimmy Hoffa, I don't know,................. and you don't either.

Again, your right! You live in montana and have a way better idea of what I saw and where I was, and how close i was.

But your right! Im wrong. I will never have an opinion on anything anymore!


That should keep everyone happy!


If it wasnt a ticket (and I hope it wasnt) then im wrong!


Get over it!

 

[XXL]

Now you sound like my wife..................or.......................... maybe...................Hon, is that you?? Nah....... just kiddin.

 

[BigTruck]

Now you sound like my wife..................or.......................... maybe...................Hon, is that you?? Nah....... just kiddin.

Im just glad you didnt say I looked like your wife!!!


We know how you montana guy's are...........




J/K It's all in fun.

 

[XXL]

Yea, We like em' with really curly hair and on all fours!

 

[BigTruck]

Yea, We like em' with really curly hair and on all fours!

LOL!!!


You get huge green rep!!!