You Just Never Know Who You're Waiting On

Hello all! Joe here again with more Tales Of The Working Class.

I'm going to branch out today to include other folks' tales.

This one is from none other than my son. He's a cop in a seaside resort town here on the east coast. This actually happened last year. 

It's three o' clock in the morning and SonnyeBoy is sitting in his cruiser. The audible tones of the dashboard-mounted radar gun are rising and falling with each passing car. To pass the time, he's texting his fellow on-duty officers on the cruisers' computer. (His mother and I refer to it as SCMODS. Two pats on the head to whoever can tell me what movie that's from.)

Suddenly the radar tones scream and SonnyeBoy sees a silver 4-door Chevy come hauling ass down the highway. He puts his car in gear and peels out of the side street. He falls in behind the Chevy and activates lights and siren. He radios in make, color and tag number.

Just then, the car he's chasing pulls a wicked U-turn. Now the adrenaline's REALLY flowing! The driver then makes their last mistake: they turn down a dead-end street.

My son screeches to a halt behind the Chevy, radios in his location, and pulls his .40-caliber automatic weapon. He orders the driver to exit the vehicle and put their hands up.

It's then that he notices the driver is a little old lady, maybe 70 years old! The front-seat passenger also looks to be at least that old!

The driver is weeping and saying, "I'm SORRY", over and over. Another officer comes flying up behind my son's car. While they're trying to determine what's going on, a fourth car pulls up behind the cruisers. A man gets out and this exchange occurs:

Man: "Officer, officer, what happened?"

SonnyeBoy: "STOP RIGHT THERE! Let me see your hands!"

Man: "Oh, sorry. Are they all right?"

Second Officer: "Why don't you tell me who YOU are first."

Man: "Oh, yeah. Sorry. I run the Knights of Columbus hall up in ------ Beach. I was following them to make sure they got home okay. Ya' see, uh, they've been drinking a little bit."

My son then walks over to deal with the man while the second cop continues to question the two ladies.

SonnyeBoy: "So you say they've been drinking? How much would you say the driver had?"

Man: "About two Jack and Cokes."

SonnyeBoy: "ABOUT two or ACTUALLY two?"

Man: "It was ACTUALLY two, sir. But can't you cut them a little slack? They're sisters..."

SonnyeBoy: "So?"

Man: "...of Mercy."

SonnyeBoy: "Wait, what? They're NUNS?!"

Man: "Yes sir."

SonnyeBoy: "Jesus CHRIST!"

Man: "Exactly!"

My son's Lieutenant arrived on the scene and it was determined that SonnyeBoy would drive the two nuns home in their car. The second officer would follow in his cruiser and later return my son to his car.

And, after the wayward Sister promised never to drink and drive again, no charges were brought against her. Proving once again: It's not WHAT you know, it's WHO you know. Amen.

Comments

[CrustyCusty]

SCMODS = original Blues Brothers movie.
I demand candy be awarded for that random knowledge and the fact I own the awesome movie. And candy to anyone else that has it.

[Kerry]

Awww you got to it first. I want an award I knew it too! =(

[Kerry]

P.S. Awesome story!

[RaleighRob]

I dunno. Letting them off just because they're nuns seems a little too easy. DWI plus speeding plus elderly driver.....that's just a formula for an innocent bystander's death right there. I don't care if you're the freakin' Pope, you shouldn't get away with that.

[Joe]

Thanks CrustyCusty and Kerry! Two pats on the head to both of you.

[Riferous]

Since nobody has said what it stands for yet,
State
County
Municipal
Offender
Database!

[CheerfulChirps]

I agree that they should have at least been fined. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. Breaking the law is breaking the law and there shouldn't be any exceptions just because they were nuns. They are just as fault ridden as the rest of us.

[Logan]

Yeah I also want to chime in with the fact that it isn't right that they got off. If it would have been me I would have been arrested. However since they are supposedly holier (disobeying laws and moral codes and risking lives doesn't seem very holy to me) they get off scott free. It's actions, not words that we should be judged by. You can preach about holyness and goodness all you want, but you can't turn around, show bad behavior and then get rewarded.

[a completely different Joe]

But they were on a mission from God!

[mel]

Oy vey!

[CrustyCusty]

Now I want some white toasted bread. Dry. And my brother wants four whole fried chickens and a coke.
By the by, we won't get caught. We're all on a mission from God.

[Hellbound Alleee]

That sucks. I guess it's okay for nuns to drive drunk and kill people. It kinda makes the law meaningless if some people can break it, as long as they're a certain status. That doesn't really sound "American."

[Logan]

I am a high priest in the church of Thor. I will now expect to be allowed to drive drunk and recklessly. Now that a precedent has been set.

[AnaBosse]

*Rolls eyes* A mission from God eh? Well then from now on I am on a mission from God to punch drunk drivers. I was hit the other day by a little old man who was coming home from a "family reunion" which means titty bar in these here parts. He said he didn't have insurence but he would give me an IOU. Fucking old people.
God says to not drink excessively. You would be doing gods work to give them a ticket.

AMEN to that, and a ticket or two.

[AnaBosse]

And to Logan, Thor be with you.