Drive Well, Get Inconvenienced

[Ksyrup]

Wonderful Idea...


(Kansas City, Mo.-AP, July 29, 2004) — Kansas City police have taken a licking for a new program that rewards motorists who drive safely by stopping them and giving them coupons for free ice cream.


<!--START STORY BELOW HERE-->Sgt. Don Jantzen of the North Patrol Division said residents expressed concerns about the program and the department's legal counsel advised officers to stop it. He said the division commander will revamp it and come up with a new approach within two weeks. Paula Talley was rewarded Monday for wearing her seat belt and yielding to traffic. She said she was afraid being stopped would make her late for work, although she made it on time.

"My job probably wouldn't have cared about free ice cream," she said.

Bill Calvert was stopped for driving the speed limit and using his signal. He said he could see people getting upset by such stops if they "were in the wrong frame of mind."

[Peregrine]

He said he could see people getting upset by such stops if they "were in the wrong frame of mind."

Is there a right frame of mind where you're happy to be pulled over even if you didn't do anything wrong? Guess I haven't discovered that particular frame of mind in my journey through life yet! :)

[Ksyrup]

Maybe it would work better if they brought the ice cream cone right to your car.

[rexallllsc]

Write down the license plate #, mail it.

[Ksyrup]

Speaking of license plates...



WILMINGTON, Del. -- NOTAG is no gag to motorcycle owner Jim Cara.

He thought a vanity license plate reading NOTAG would be pretty funny. But he's not laughing anymore.

His new motorcycle license plate arrived in the mail last Saturday, along with more than 200 parking violations. <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

It seems the computers in Wilmington are sending him the tickets from whenever an officer wrote "no tag" on the citation.

Cara works for the American Motorcycle Association and said he's been a lifelong prankster. But he worries the clean-up is going to be worse than the joke.

State officials suggest that Cara get a new plate. But he says he's going to keep NOTAG.<!--stopindex-->

[gstelmack]

I love it when jokesters get hoisted on their own petard. What's he going to do, get all the police officers in the state (or for that matter, the country) to stop using the shorthand they've been using forever? Good luck. They'll be on the lookout for that plate from then on.

[panerd]

Is there a right frame of mind where you're happy to be pulled over even if you didn't do anything wrong? Guess I haven't discovered that particular frame of mind in my journey through life yet! :)

I think I see where the man was going with "state of mind". What if you have a couple beers at a bar and aren't really drink yet, but on the borderline. It would kind of suck to have your pull over for your good use of turn signal turn into a soberity test.

[Ragone]

I got pulled over for that today oddly enough.. in Liberty (around kcchiefs neck of the woods) I asked if he had any coupons for free doughnuts instead..

[Suicane75]

I got pulled over for that today oddly enough.. in Liberty (around kcchiefs neck of the woods) I asked if he had any coupons for free doughnuts instead..

And then you were giving relations with a nightstick?
:D