Driver ticketed
for damaged windshield in repair-shop lot, Waiting crew confirms: 'All of the sudden we see a cop out
there', by Bob Unruh, 9/8/15, WND
A deputy sheriff in
Colorado has handed a driver a ticket for a windshield that was cracked by a
vandal. While the driver was in the parking lot of a glass-repair shop, ready
to go in. To the appointment he had already scheduled. While glass-repair shop workers
watched. The story of toe-the-letter-of-the-law enforcement comes from KUSA
television in Denver.
The station reported it
happened Aug. 19 to Nick Berlin. "I got a ticket for something that I was
close as I could be to resolving," he said, describing to the station how
he was about to pull into the parking lot of a glass shop when an Adams County
sheriff's deputy stopped him and ticketed him for "unsafe vehicle."
The ticket was handed
out in the parking lot of Absolute Auto Glass. KUSA said records corroborate
Berlin's account that his windshield had been vandalized the day before, he
made the appointment and was just arriving when he was stopped. KUSA said the
ticket shows the officer wrote the citation at 3:39 p.m., minutes after
Berlin's appointment.
"We were just
standing here in our door and were ready for his appointment and all of the
sudden we see a cop out there writing the guy a ticket," shop owner David
Sprague told the station.
He noted that the
damages were to the passenger side of the windshield, so Berlin actually had
"plenty of visibility" despite the damage.
Berlin told the station
he tried explaining to the deputy he had an appointment to fix the damage. The
sheriff's office declined to comment.
Berlin told KUSA,
"It was definitely a bummer."
He said he will fight
the ticket, and Sprague said if the judge doesn't dismiss the citation, he will
cover the $46 ticket.
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