Senior citizens and their cars...

[Greg]

Kris...try to push till they give in...

Or pick your battles. It's going to be your word vs. the cops. Unless you have undeniable evidence (maybe the GEICO call was recorded?), it sounds like an uphill and exhausting battle that unfortunately you may never win. I feel for you on this one, but you might just have to chalk it up to shit luck. As was suggested, call the captain and see what he says about it. Glad you're okay.

 

[bvibert]

Or pick your battles. It's going to be your word vs. the cops. Unless you have undeniable evidence (maybe the GEICO call was recorded?), it sounds like an uphill and exhausting battle that unfortunately you may never win. I feel for you on this one, but you might just have to chalk it up to shit luck. As was suggested, call the captain and see what he recommends. Glad you're okay.

If the dude screwed up her relatively new car to the point that it's underivable I'd say that was a battle worth fighting. Sounds like there were other witnesses too.

 

[wa-loaf]

If the dude screwed up her relatively new car to the point that it's underivable I'd say that was a battle worth fighting. Sounds like there were other witnesses too.

According to her description it's be hard to not blame the guy. He ran into a parked car hard enough to push it into others. She wasn't even in hers.

Did you get a plate number?

 

[BeanoNYC]

Beano you MUST be kidding. Cops covering another city Cop's ass....how rare!

I'm sure you have many dealings with the Nassau County Police Department up in Maine. They wrote my friends wife a ticket when he was NYPD Sgt. She even put him on the phone with the cop and the cop still wrote her. We're not talking about two neighboring rinky dink towns here where Barney's sister is married to Rosco P Coltrain's brother. These two departments are under constant scrutiny by the NY press, as well.

 

[Marc]

I'm sure you have many dealings with the Nassau County Police Department up in Maine. They wrote my friends wife a ticket when he was NYPD Sgt. She even put him on the phone with the cop and the cop still wrote her. We're not talking about two neighboring rinky dink towns here where Barney's sister is married to Rosco P Coltrain's brother. These two departments are under constant scrutiny by the NY press, as well.

Still, ignoring local politics, it typically isn't that way. Most of the LEO's I've ever known will not write a ticket unless it's a very, very serious infraction for any public servant. The attitude, in my experience, is widespread enough that bigbog making that assumption was probably not ill considered, and certainly not limited to rural Maine.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Still, ignoring local politics, it typically isn't that way. Most of the LEO's I've ever known will not write a ticket unless it's a very, very serious infraction for any public servant. The attitude, in my experience, is widespread enough that bigbog making that assumption was probably not ill considered, and certainly not limited to rural Maine.

You're correct that his assumption was not ill considered. It's not a parallel that's so easy to draw now in Metro NY. Perhaps my curt response got in the way of my point. For some reason, comments on this board have put me on edge. Let me try this again.

All I originally mentioned was that in today's day and age you don't see Nassau Cops doing that for Retired NYPD. If he were drunk, he got lucky.

I know of cops that were locked up by NJ State troopers miles from the GWB for keeping their weapons in the car. There are so many LEO's now in Metro, NY there is no where to draw a line for professional courtesy.

Years ago, it was like that in Metro, NY. I've even benefited numerous time with NYPD "Get out of Jail Free" card in Nassau. Just doesn't happen anymore.

Edit: And let me add that I have stumbled out of no less than 10 bars within a mile of that place...and one in the same parking lot. I grew up within a 2 minute drive from where this happened. Shit...My names hangs over a bar on the SE corner of the intersection where that lot is. Why, do you ask? For drinking 100 pints of Guinness in a month's time.

 

[Marc]

You're correct that his assumption was not ill considered. It's not a parallel that's so easy to draw now in Metro NY. Perhaps my curt response got in the way of my point. For some reason, comments on this board have put me on edge. Let me try this again.

All I originally mentioned was that in today's day and age you don't see Nassau Cops doing that for Retired NYPD. If he were drunk, he got lucky.

I know of cops that were locked up by NJ State troopers miles from the GWB for keeping their weapons in the car. There are so many LEO's now in Metro, NY there is no where to draw a line for professional courtesy.

Years ago, it was like that in Metro, NY. I've even benefited numerous time with NYPD "Get out of Jail Free" card in Nassau. Just doesn't happen anymore.

That's too bad. I'm surprised after 9/11 it didn't bond the brotherhood stronger like it did on the red side of public service. All the CT troopers I know will give a pass to all LEO's, afaik, including NY of any kind...

 

[BeanoNYC]

That's too bad. I'm surprised after 9/11 it didn't bond the brotherhood stronger like it did on the red side of public service. All the CT troopers I know will give a pass to all LEO's, afaik, including NY of any kind...

I have a better chance with a family PBA card in CT than in Nassau. 9/11 did nothing but put a strain on LEO's ...I'm not even going to mention the trouble with LEOs and Firefighters. Too many cooks spoiled the recovery pot.

 

[Marc]

I have a better chance with a family PBA card in CT than in Nassau. 9/11 did nothing but put a strain on LEO's ...I'm not even going to mention the trouble with LEOs and Firefighters. Too many cooks spoiled the recovery pot.

That issue I did know about. And I was actually surprised when they brought it up (in a demented sort of way) on Rescue Me.

 

[cbcbd]

I don't think accident reports are written for those that take place on private property, are they?

Good point.
I was involved in a minor fender bender in a D&D parking lot. The cop said that he didn't have to write an accident report because it was private property, but he could if I wanted to use it when dealing with the insurance companies.

But still, kk, did you get his insurance info or are you letting your insurance pay for it?


On the topic of cops with cops... A few years ago I was driving behind a van being driven by an off-duty cop. We both got pulled over for speeding at the same time. The officer let the cop go (he stepped out of the van, wearing uniform and saying "I'm a cop, I'm a cop") and then gave me a bullshit story saying that I was going faster than the guy in front of me, was being a complete dick, and slapped me with a nice fine. Honestly, I don't care about your courtesies to other cops, hearing this cop blatantly lie to me was just disgusting.

 

[BeanoNYC]

That issue I did know about. And I was actually surprised when they brought it up (in a demented sort of way) on Rescue Me.

Watched it a couple of times. He's supposed to live in my town, right? They film here every once in a while. How did they bring it up?

 

[Marc]

Leary's character went flying through a red light in his pick up and swerved around a bunch of people like a maniac. Cop pulls him over, and Leary shows him the FDNY badge assuming he'll be let go. Turns out he's an aquaintance of the cop and they get in a huge argument on the street about how the FDNY got all the recognition and sympathy for their 9/11 losses and the NYPD and PA basically got the shaft and felt slighted. They may have thrown punches too, but he def. got a ticket. May got cuffs too, I can't remember it was a couple seasons ago.

Leary is connected well within the FD... his cousin was one of the Worcester 6 killed in the 12/3/99 Cold Storage fire, and he knows a lot of FDNY. Has the Leary's Firefighter Foundation and all that.

Rescue Me is the display in the visual medium I've ever seen that portrays the inside of structure fire accurately. Ladder 49? Nope, way off the mark... Backdraft? So far from it, it's almost pathetic.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Leary's character went flying through a red light in his pick up and swerved around a bunch of people like a maniac. Cop pulls him over, and Leary shows him the FDNY badge assuming he'll be let go. Turns out he's an aquaintance of the cop and they get in a huge argument on the street about how the FDNY got all the recognition and sympathy for their 9/11 losses and the NYPD and PA basically got the shaft and felt slighted. They may have thrown punches too, but he def. got a ticket. May got cuffs too, I can't remember it was a couple seasons ago.
.

True feelings, between these organizations here. Anyhoo...Does he still live in a beach community? I know he did the first season.

 

[Marc]

True feelings, between these organizations here. Anyhoo...Does he still live in a beach community? I know he did the first season.

I'm not sure, I haven't heard much from him, except of course he did the Comics Come Home in Boston again this year.

 

[BeanoNYC]

I'm not sure, I haven't heard much from him, except of course he did the Comics Come Home in Boston again this year.

OK crossing wires here. Denis Leary's character on Rescue Me. Where does he live? In the first season he (the character) lived in my town. I don't follow the show so I figured I'd ask you because. 8)

 

[bvibert]

OK crossing wires here. Denis Leary's character on Rescue Me. Where does he live? In the first season he (the character) lived in my town. I don't follow the show so I figured I'd ask you because. 8)

Wait, who's on first?

 

[BeanoNYC]

Wait, who's on first?

I was reading an article about the Women's Chinese Gymnastics team age scandal this morning. One of the girls in questioned is named "He." I thought I was going to explode figuring out who they were talking about.

 

[bvibert]

I was reading an article about the Women's Chinese Gymnastics team age scandal this morning. One of the girls in questioned is named "He." I thought I was going to explode figuring out who they were talking about.

:lol: That sounds like a fun read...

 

[BeanoNYC]

:lol: That sounds like a fun read...

Tarnish is building up fast on the gold medal won by the female Chinese gymnasts.
Questions have been raised about whether China stacked their team with at least three underage girls: He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan and Yang Yilin.
The Chinese insist the pixielike athletes are 16, as Olympics rules require.
But a government news agency report from nine months ago listed He's age as 13, according to the Associated Press.
The AP saved a copy of the Nov. 3 state media Xinhua report, which called He a "little girl" and one of "10 big new stars" at China's Cities Games.
When the AP checked the same Web page later, the page had been rendered inaccessible.
"It's definitely a mistake," Zhang Hongliang, an official with China's gymnastics delegation, said of the Xinhua report.
He insisted she was 16 after winning the gold.
"I cannot control what others are saying," she said. "My real age is 16 and what others say does not affect me."
There is more evidence, however, beyond the Xinhua report.
A 2006 biography from the local sports bureau where He was registered gave her date of birth as Jan. 1, 1994. That would make her 14. And a story earlier this year in the China Daily, which is the country's largest English-language newspaper, also reported that He is 14 years old.
As for Jiang, Time magazine reported that local records listed Jiang's date of birth as Oct. 1, 1993, making her 14. And the State General Administration of Sport's Web site listed Yang's birth date as Aug. 26, 1993, making her 14, too.
International Olympic Committee rules state clearly that female gymnasts must turn 16 years old during the year of competition.
That rule was imposed, in part, because prepubescent girls are often more limber than more mature girls.
The Chinese Gymnastics Association provided copies of the gymnasts' ID cards and passports in an attempt to prove they are indeed old enough to compete.
Martha Karolyi, who coached the second place U.S. team, said she doesn't believe it and said some of the Chinese competitors look like they still have their "milk teeth."
Chinese coach Lu Shanzhen called Karolyi's complaints sour grapes and said she was just "upset with the loss."
Questions about Chinese age-fixing have been raised before.
After supposedly 16-year-old Chinese gymnast Yang Yun won two bronze medals in the Sydney Olympics, she told Chinese TV she was 14 at the time of the competition.
So far, the IOC is giving the Chinese the benefit of the doubt. Passports are "accepted proof of a gymnast's eligibility." And the Chinese girls' passports check out, the IOC said.


http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/2...14_flippin_mad_over_little_tumbleinas_-2.html

 

[bvibert]

He looks 14 to me.