UPDATE: No good deed goes unpunished*:
Strangers banded together to pull a deer out of the freezing water of the Patapsco River on Thursday night.What makes you think you need to break a specific law in order to get a citation these days? Guy hasn't been around recessions very much, I think.
“We seen the deer going under,” said Khalil Abusakran. “It couldn’t maintain. It was starting to freeze, and it was really getting bad.”
Abusakran brought a raft, and Jim Hart joined him...
But in the excited aftermath of the rescue, a natural resources police officer on the scene wrote both men a ticket...
They say they were ticketed for not wearing life vests, although both are over the age for mandatory use of flotation devices.
“No, we didn’t have vests on, but we’re not 16 years old,” Abusakran said. “There were personal floating devices on the boat.”
The ticket itself doesn’t check off any specific violation, just a $90 fine...
* At least in Bethany's Maryland.
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Yeah, I understand our local cops just got a slap in the face for pulling people over and "not liking their insurance." Apparently, the courtroom was full of eventually dismissed cases.
In the meantime, the same cop watches parents drop off their kids in a clearly posted no-stopping or parking zone every morning and does nothing.
Go figure.
Here in Tejas it is illegal to drive in the left hand lane unless you are passing or turning left. Cops will ignore thousands of a-holes blocking up the left hand lane and pull over the one guy who goes a whopping 5 mph over the limit instead.
Nobody even likes Maryland.
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