Gotta Christmas Eve Ticket

[SUN RA KAT]

I'm in Ohio & a big snowstorm is coming tonight, so A-Vipering I'm A-Going to get some gas and make sure the battery is fully charged because it will be over a week until I drive it again.

I go over to a family member's house and meet the rest of my family there, we have some snacks and etc. It is now getting to be early evening and a few drops of almost freezing rain come down every now and then. I take my sister-in-law home and head home myself because it's going to snow.

I'm almost home when a pair of ricers want to say that they beat a Viper. One illegally passes me from a right turn only lane from the right of me, but he put on his turn signal to get in my lane. Then another ricer zooms past me on the left followed by a tailgating Ford Crown Vic, both going over 20 MPH over the speed limit. Both ricers had the required coffee can exhaust tips.

As soon as the Ford Crown Vic was a one car length ahead of me, he displayed the true Christmas Spirit by turning on all the Christmas lights he had on his Sherriff's Patrol Car. He then pulled the ricer over that passed me on the left...

 

[Tusc]

Shove THAT in your stocking and love it!

Actually, ricer or no, that really has to be the pits to get a ticket on Christmas.

But that still doesn't beat the time my dad's car was "stolen" on Christmas Eve while he was shopping at the mall. It was full of presents and when he called home for a ride he had to explain how "there isn't going to be a Christmas this year." Well, around 12:30 we get a call from the mall security. Guess what? The car is right there, untouched. Game on! Christmas was back. We still make a point of reminding the old man every year at the family party.

 

[SUN RA KAT]

I picked up my sister-in-law earlier today (after the big snowstorm) in my wife's AWD Chrysler Town & Country (my Viper is a Garage Queen until the snow goes away) and saw one of our suburban police departments giving Christmas Day presents to everyone that they could pull over to get their quotas by the end of the month. One car with radar was hiding behind a tree in the median catching speeders - 1 MPH over the speed limit is all they allow - and calling the 3 other police cars to apprehend everyone who is 2 MPH or more over the speed limit and give them Christmas cheer.

I think that may one reason why the police are so "respected" in that little town.

Once, a couple of years ago, one of their "Finest" tried to give me a ticket for running a Green Light. When I pointed out to him that he turned in front of me to block me and I had the right of way that he would have to give himself a ticket for causing an accident if I had not been able to stop in time he got mentally unhinged and went "Oink! Oink! Oink!"