And Besides, Officer, Donald Trump Will Pardon Me.
Republican Arizona Congressfool Paul Mosely got pulled over by cops for doing 97 MPH in a 55 MPH zone.
His explanation was that he was anxious to surprise his wife in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The officer wrote …
“Mosley also told me that I should just let him go and that I shouldn’t waste anymore of my time dealing with him due to his immunity as a government official.”
Oh, and because he’s a Republican, it only gets better.
After running his license, the police officer returned to Mosley and told him to watch his speed. Mosley took the chance to brag about speeding in the past. “Yeah, this goes 140,” he said. “That’s what I like about it. I go 130, 140, 120. I come down I-10, I was going 120 almost, you know, if there was no traffic.”
Mosely apologized on Facebook, but it didn’t help much. He still looked like a jerk.
I have the displeasure of going to Arizona now and then. Similar to some other states I could name, traffic signs are mere suggestions. And it’s a sign of weakness if you use a turn Signal.
1“Jerk” is one of the words you could use. There are others. “Manslaughter by vehicle waiting to happen” is one. “Blatant disregard for human life” is another. “Thinks he’s immortal and we’re all blips in a video game” is one you could use. “Lock him up until he grows some sense” is one I like, among others, because I think that would take a really long time.
2“immunity as a government official”? Since when did Congress grant itself diplomatic immunity? We have got to rid of people who believe they are above the damn law. We have got to throw out these people who think getting elected gives them “special rights.” They’ve been claiming that about us LGBT folk for decades, and now we see that it’s Reptillicons who feel entitled to them.
As a former LEO and disciplinary tribunal member, I would bring administrative charges against an officer for letting a reckless threat to other motorists off with a warning because he won a damn election. He was doing almost double the speed limit! If I or any other offender did this, we’d be in the gray bar hotel and facing hefty fines in order to discourage such bad behavior, but apparently, the charmed and entitled beltway bubble surrounding Rethugs extends to the states they allegedly represent. I grow weary of the perpetual double-standard of these guys! I want to hope Mueller Time and #45 in handcuffs is on the horizon, but will he ever make it into an orange jumpsuit? I doubt it.
Democrats never learned that you have to cut the head off a rattlesnake to rid yourself of it. If you try to be nice and just relocate it, it’ll just come back to within 1 mile of where it was born.
Why did an image of Ted Cruz just flash before my eyes when I typed that sentence? Go BETO!
3I thought immunity for traffic tickets only applied when going *to* the capitol for a vote or some other urgent business – NOT applicable on the reverse trip?
And, yes, it really is a thing. I once worked on capitol hill and had a harrowing ride from a function we attended at a Senator’s house to the Capitol so he could be there for a vote.
25 years later, I had a way less frightening – but still memorable – ride with a Paris cabbie from my hotel to the airport.
4The snacilbupeR tradition of acting st00pid isn’t complete without at least one lie and Mosely told a whopper: “I come down I-10, I was going 120 almost, you know, if there was no traffic.” AZ is a state best traveled in the cool of the 90+ degree night. As a student at ASU had the opportunity to be on I-10 many times at 2 or 3 in the morning heading home for holidays and breaks. “No traffic” was never my experience on any of the highways in and around Phoenix at any hour.
Then again, as a descendant of one of the more swarthy tribes of Israel and easily perceived as Hispanic by some in LE, speeding was never an option.
5The fool forgets that legal suspension of laws doesn’t include *physical* ones. When his body interacts with his car interior, the laws of physics won’t pardon him, or what/who he hits…
6Did not state as to the ticket, did he get a speeding ticket, should be good for at least $500? No! Then the cop is a p’Tak ahole! If he did get a ticket , Good going cop & I hope he gets an honest judge!
7If he mashes himself into strawberry jam at 140 mph AND DOESN’T TAKE ANYONE ELSE WITH HIM, that would be just dandy.
And a miracle.
8That answers the question on the minds of many black people in America today:
“What exactly would it take to get pulled over by police for driving while white?”
42 mph over the speed limit. And a four month grace period before the media reports on it.
9Paul, MA is another state where drivers don’t want to startle others with blinking lights. But periodically in the greater Boston area the overhead LEDs remind “Use Yah Blinkah!”
10There is a line I may or may not have used a time or two with folks like Republican Arizona Congressfool Paul Mosely, “you may beat the rap, but you won’t beat the ride”.
And a 97 in 55 by radar, as a peace officer I would have instantered the ticket and taken the violator to jail. If the violator/driver cannot release the car to a sober adult, I’m towing the car. Btw, a car towed incidental to arrest may be searched for inventory purposes and to ensure my safety as a peace officer, including a locked trunk.
11Going 97 in a 55…why did this jerk get a ticket? I would have no doubt about it
12They should just change the Party name to Scofflaws R Us.
13This guy has a case of fratboy-itis and it is often terminal. Did they cop at least make the jerk use a breathalyzer?
14Last summer I was sitting in the police station in my small city here in Oregon because I found a bracelet on the sidewalk so took it there to Lost & Found. Since it was late in the work day some staff had already left so I was left to sit and wait for the correct person to collect the bracelet, get my name, etc. While waiting a man came in and rang for someone to help him. He sheepishly told me that he was a city policeman, had gotten a parking ticket ON HIS POLICE CAR and had come to pay it (with personal funds). He was good natured about it, made no excuses. Now that’s a public servant.
15Everyone will be pleased to know that this jackass went worldwide. Even the BBC carried the story. Is it possible that he is related to Louie?
16I did a little digging on this guy and found this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/02/arizona-lawmaker-lets-end-compulsory-schooling-and-stop-forcing-education-down-everybodys-throat/?utm_term=.276538c557b1
“The number one thing I would like to repeal is the law on compulsory education … I believe education is still a privilege… We’re telling kids they have to go to school, and… we give them a meal or two and sometimes send a backpack of food home with them. So now schools are not only tasked with educating our children, but also feeding our children. What happened to the personal responsibility of a parent to feed and educate their kids?”
Sure, let’s not educate kids so they can grow up to be low wage earners who cannot afford to feed their children. That makes sense.
I also found out he and his wife have SEVEN children. Have to wonder about their education.
17I guess this crap is just SOP for Repuke Congressvarmits. But the damned AZ trooper/LEO who let this asshole off with just a warning should face some serious disciplinary action. Both for showing extreme, totally unwarranted deference to a dangerous sunnavabitch, and for endangering all the other motorists in (at least) Arizona into the future.
That kind of over the limit speeding shouldn’t have been excused.
I’ll admit, in my many years of driving I frequently drove above the limits on open highways.
I drove many more miles than most of y’all, commuting to work in vast South and West Texas; and statistically had a much greater chance of getting pulled over. Which did happen a lot of times, sometimes I got a warning from the trooper, sometimes a ‘citation’ :] .
I got real good at avoiding such inconveniences though, radar detectors and careful observations of all the tactics used kept me pretty much unbothered for hundreds of thousands of miles (never an accident either).
I called in and/or assisted at many (bad) traffic accidents back then, LEO’s were few and far between, ambulance service a joke (often run by a local funeral director), no such things as paramedics around, in those pre-911 days.
120mph+ at 0’darkthirty in the morning on the ‘old’ two lane US 77 highway across the King Ranch was always a treat…back then there would be no traffic at all most of the night, the couple of Kenedy County deputies (total force, Kenedy is one of the most sparsely populated counties in TX) would be home abed, and the TX troopers usually had other stuff going on.
18The Sarita BP checkpoint was almost always closed at night too back then, totally different today, heavy traffic almost 24/7.
The good ol’ days, eh?
That car was a Mercedes. His other car is a Prius. Neither American made. Why does this congressman hate America???
Good luck with your next car, Congressman; it’s going to cost you THOUSANDS more to own because your party nominated and voted for an idiot.
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