And speaking of the Colorado cops, get this:
A few nights back I got behind the wheel (sober!) to make a quick run down to the local town post office to check my mail. It was about 8:00 pm on a week night and the streets were DESERTED! The post office is situated at the intersection of two one way roads at a stop sign. Soooo... if you make a right turn to pull up in front of the post office, there is no way on God's earth that you could possibly pull out in front of another driver - well, maybe at the height of the tourist season if some drunk from Cleveland had managed to navigate three blocks driving in the wrong direction, but tourist season is over.
I slow down, glance over for any headlights from the hypothetical drunk going the wrong way, and without coming to a complete stop, drive the additional 20 feet and stop in front of the post office.
Out of nowhere, officer pulls up behind me with his red lights flashing. This is obviously the most fun the local cops have had in days, because the cop who usually hangs out at the local speed trap and who had been trapping no one even came down to join in the fun. The noble boys in blue conferred over my licence and documents for a good 20 minutes. You'd have thought I was dressed up like a Muslim cleric caught trying to carry a ticking package into the post office.
They gave me not one but
two tickets for failure to come to a complete stop at a stop sign, because speed trap cop had remembered me pulling the same stunt earlier this summer.
$100 in fines and 4 points on my licence!
I'll see 'em in court! Jeez!
