What SHOULD my line have been to the Cop?

[RickAstleyFan]

(Not too long I promise)

BACKGROUND: Three months ago I get stopped at 10:30 at night for "rolling" through a stop sign.

I was given a ticket for "disobeying a traffic sign or device" for $242.

No kidding, 242 bucks!

So I ask for the trial, and make a case to the judge that the cop was in the lane coming AT me, and he had no angle to see if I had stopped, and that it was 10:30 at night and it was dark.

The judge said he would release his decision by MAIL. I felt good leaving the courtroom.

So this week I get a letter informing me I am "Guilty" and I have to pay $190.


FLASH FORWARD TO TODAY.

I am on vacation, two hours from where I live at a gas station. While I am waiting in line to pay for my sunflower seeds I look back and catch the eyes of that SAME cop who gave me the ticket. (No uniform, he is in a t-shirt and jeans)

He stares at me, then says, "You look familiar, where do I know you from?"

I replied, "You gave me a ticket for supposedly running a stop sign. The judge is making me pay 190 bucks."


"Ouch" was all he said. Then I paid, and walked out.



BEAT: I said nothing cool.
BEAT: It bothered me for the next 100 miles of my trip why I DIDN'T say anything.



BBV, I ask you, if you run into a cop who gave you a ticket later, and he is obviously off duty and out of his jurisdiction, what would have been a cool line I SHOULD have used?

Thanks!

This is what he looked like, kinda. Officer Smith.