He got traffic tickets after saving his son's life
A man pulled up to a local ravine in Linden, NJ with his son in the back seat. Dad stops the car, son is excited and jumps out of the car and runs up to the ravine bank. Dad sees son about to fall into the ravine and jumps out the vehicle just in time to grab his son before he falls over the edge. When dad and son turn back toward the vehicle they find it has rolled into the ravine.
The police arrived and gave the man two tickets. One for leaving a vehicle without first setting the emergency brake and/or parking the vehicle. The second was for not having his registration. The registration was in the vehicle that was nose deep in the ravine.
Should he have been ticketed?
If he doesn't like the tickets the officer gave him, he should take it up with the judge in the county and use those things called child safety locks in the back seat of his car to keep his excitable child in until it is safe.
no, and the police have latitude to issue or not to issue...
Quoting jlo1313:If he doesn't like the tickets the officer gave him, he should take it up with the judge in the county and use those things called child safety locks in the back seat of his car to keep his excitable child in until it is safe.
He is planning to fight the tickets.
What I found amusing was that in the video the man interviewing him asked him if he let the vehicle roll into the ravine intentionally. According to Dad, that's what the police accused him of.
Honestly, I kind of wondered the same thing...but I work in an insurance office and people do the darndest things.
Quoting Veni.Vidi.Vici.:
Quoting jlo1313:
If he doesn't like the tickets the officer gave him, he should take it up with the judge in the county and use those things called child safety locks in the back seat of his car to keep his excitable child in until it is safe.
He is planning to fight the tickets.
What I found amusing was that in the video the man interviewing him asked him if he let the vehicle roll into the ravine intentionally. According to Dad, that's what the police accused him of.
I was a bitch to the dickhead after he gave me the ticket and you better believe I got that dismissed.
No, he should not have been ticketed. He reacted quickly instead of saying, wait my son is at the edge, let me put on the parking brake and grab my registration, just in case I need it before I go save my son.
In Maine, he would have gotten a huge fine (500.00-1000.00 a DAY!!) from LURC until he got the vehicle out of the ravine.lol
Who would you save?
- Veni.Vidi.Vici.
on May. 23, 2012 at 9:42 AM