And then there was the Sedgwick County Sheriff's deputy a block away on a
parallel street as I pulled out of the Raceway Inn on a club racing weekend.
He proceeds to follow me all the way off the Forbes property, up Ormond
Drive, and into the registration lot at Heartland Park (a drive of about a
mile) before pulling me over -- in full view of all the people at
registration -- for failing to signal a turn way back at the motel. Failing
to signal to whom? No one was there to see the signal (other than the cop a
block away and totally unaffected at that point by any turn I might make.)
Didn't ticket me, just seemed to pick the best opportunity to create an
embarrassing moment.
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike King" <mapcomaps@comcast.net>
To: "Eric Linnhoff" <knuckledragger@kcweb.net>; "Team.net"
<autox@autox.team.net>; "evolution" <evolution-discussions@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Long term parking between Topeka events
> Actually, I'm probably one of the most law-abiding drivers on the
premises.
> But, when you come to stop sign at the gate, ready to turn out, look over,
> see one of their rent-a-cops sitting over in the registration parking lot,
> watching everyone come out, you just have to think that's just a tad bit
> ridiculous. The thing is I did see him sitting there, did come to an
almost
> complete stop, looked both ways, then pulled out, but still wasn't
> sufficient enough for the cop that always has something to prove. But I
was
> glad to offer him up my suggestion of how he should be doing his job and
to
> leave the rest of the best drivers in the country alone. He seemed
> enlightened when I told him if he's got enough time on his hands to be
> watching people at the main gate to the parking lot at Forbes, waiting to
> hand out tickets for running stop signs, he's got enough time to be
driving
> around the military base looking for terrorists in black hoods. And for it
> to be Sept. 11th, 2002 that he's handing out the tickets made my point all
> too clear to him. I agree that they need to keep some order around the
area,
> but lets not go overkill and pick on the "good drivers." Well, from what I
> heard, he got reprimanded by the MTAA and was told not to pick on us, so
> hopefully we won't have the same problem this year. We'll see...
>
> MK
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