12-20-2009, 10:12 AM
After I got back from a deployments, they had changed the speed limit from 60 to 70 on a stretch of highway between post and the mall (only about 10 minutes from post). I was going 70 with my car full of other soldiers. I got pulled over and when the cop asked which unit I was in, he told me he wouldn't be giving me a ticket had I been in one of the other companys (that he was in before getting out). I said thank you when he gave me the ticket, and 3 days later (to give it time to be put into the system) I went down to the courthouse and told them I wanted to contest the ticket and I wanted the in car video and audio pulled for the hearing. They asked me on what grounds I was contesting the ticket (I was self represented) and I told them to play the video/audio. They heard the officer say those remarks, judge dismissed the case, and the officer got fired right there in the court room. Turns out he was still on probationary status.