Breakin’ the Law – Breakin’ the Law

So, I was driving home from the gym and passed a cop that was giving a ticket to someone outside of their house. About a minute later, I see lights flashing behind me – same cop! He waved me to come out “come here, look at this!” He was pointing at a wire hanging down from my license plate (approx 2 inches long). All I could think when he pointed to that was, ‘look at the rest of my car’ – I should get an award that it even runs. It’s a 95 Ford Probe that was brought back to life from a salvaged title, 250 dents all over it, paint falling off, a broken trunk I had to pay a couple Mexican guys to fix the trunk good enough to appear to close to pass safety inspection, an extended mirror on the driver side, bad brakes, cracked ball joint, half gutted interior and trash piled everywhere to keep bad guys away (since it got broken into twice…that and I’m a little busy and haven’t had time to clean it). All that is wrong and he points out a 2 inch wire hanging down at noon – how he even saw that is beyond me.

He runs my name and license to see if I have any warrants out. I think he really wanted to arrest me because after my name cleared, he said “man, and I left that back there for this.” – Someone actually got out of a ticket because of me and my 2 inch black wire hanging down from my trunk. How lucky was that guy? I wonder what he got pulled over for – a rock wedged in between the tread of one of his tires?

I’ve always had bad luck with cops wanting to pull me over, etc. It’s ALWAYS for no legitimate reason too. Once on my birthday (25th birthday) – a cop came and profiled me because “someone called in” and said I was being disruptive and suspicious. All that happened was I walked out of a convenient store with an ice cream cone at 11:30am with 2 friends that came into town to see me. Cop ran all my info, etc. and not once did he say “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”