[SDCBC] Fwd: [apbp] Friday anecdote

[Jim Baross]

Forwarded w/o express permission...

>From: "Joe Stafford"
>To: <APBP <members
>
>Members,
>
>Here is a story to enjoy from a bicycling ListServ.  I checked the veracity
>of the story from the original poster who is pretty reliable for witty
>information.
>
>"A Sergeant on the Oklahoma City Police Department was put in charge of
>the bicycle patrolmen. One day these four boys in an old Camaro came by,
>hanging out the windows, giving him the finger and yelling, "Get on the
>sidewalk where you belong."
>    He sprinted after them but they would drive just fast enough that he
>couldn't catch them. They were taunting him as he tried to catch up with
>them. The thing they forgot was his radio and a couple blocks later, he had
>the help of a couple squad cars.
>    He pulled out his ticket book and began writing tickets for things like
>expired tags, broken windshield, broken tail lights and no insurance. Just
>about the time he finished writing tickets, a wrecker arrived and began
>hooking up to the car.
>    "If you tow my car, what am I going to do?" asked the driver.
>    "I guess you can get up on the sidewalk where you belong," the bike cop
>replied.
>    Oh yes, in the process they found that two of his friends also had
>warrants and they left in the back seats of patrol cars. -- Jim Foreman"
>
>Joe Stafford, Executive Director
>Bicycle Access Council
>Dallastown, PA
>www.BicycleAccess-PA.org