Rural Justice

[Boondox]

Came home yesterday to find some idiot from Massachusetts had parked his Nissan in the middle of the road, blocking access to my driveway. Couldn't get Clementine out to plow. Called the local cops. An officer came out and shook his head at the sight. Wrote up a parking ticket and was going to call a tow truck, but the tourist would have come back and needed a ride into town. Might have been angry, etc. So since we weren't planning on going anywhere, he put the ticket on the windshield and called the local highway department. Had the driver plow the road and leave a six foot wall of snow directly behind the fellow's Nissan.

About six hours later the fellow finally showed up. Tried to back over the mound, but wet snow is pretty hard to push through. Tried digging himself out with his hands, but that's pretty hard too. He started pounding on my door about the same time the officer came back to check up on us. He started swearing at the officer. Bad move. His shouting and pounding, of course, alerted my dogs. My alpha male, Molson, who was badly beaten before we got him and is now absolutely devoted to us, bared his impressive fangs until the man cooled down.

The officer gave him another citation (Disturbing the peace) and a choice of having Willy (who charges on a sliding scale based on how big a jerk he is dealing with) bring his grader up to remove the snow, or to hire me to move it. $50 richer, I had him pull forward and fired up Clementine. Took all of five minutes to clear the roadway.

Tamara and I love and support our local police /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Pete

 

[Thomas]

You mean to tell me he didn't once say he was sorry about parking in the middle of the road...man ole man I would have fun w/that cat for sure.

Sometimes good old country justice can be more affective than whats on the books. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[PTRich]

God bless the patient. I may have asked him if he changed his name to puppy chow after he started pounding on my door. It amazes me how rude and inconsiderate people can be.

 

[Jag]

BD, too cool, wish I had been there to see it.... What was the idiot doing for six hours......

 

[MChalkley]

Pete - Great story!!!! Sometimes the good days make the bad days worthwhile. I'm not sure the local mountie here would've been quite that shrewd in his handling of the situation, unfortunately. A couple of the State Troopers in the area that I know pretty well would've loved to handle it that way, but the county guys are professional wannabes.

So what was the idiot there for in the first place?

 

[Knight9]

<font color=blue>...the local mountie...</font color=blue>

Is there a little Canadian in there Mark?? I thought "Mountie" orginated with reference to the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) and was a Canadian term. Always thought south of the border you referred to them as Troopers.

Kevin

 

[MChalkley]

Nah, us hicks just call 'em mounties 'cause it rhymes with county. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Knight9]

Well, I'll pass on a <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/html/history.htm>History of the RCMP</A> site anyway! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Kevin

 

[Boondox]

He wanted to ski on my neighbor's property (the Trapp Family Lodge) without paying the trail fee. Wonderful fellow, huh?

Pete

 

[MChalkley]

Pete - I'd say that, for a person of his moral fiber and character, he got off really light. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif But, somehow, I doubt he thinks so. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I'm really glad you got a piece of the action, though. That's pretty rare...