Officer Tickets Car With Dead Woman Inside
By Wyatt Earp | April 8, 2009
Well, she shouldn’t have been parking illegally!
So you know, this incident happened in Alabama. Now while it would be easy to make a stereotypical crack about the education levels of many in that state, I have readers there, so I won’t go there.
Although the temptation to do so is pretty strong. I’m just sayin’.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A parking enforcement officer issued a ticket for a pickup truck outside an Alabama emergency room while a woman lay dead inside the vehicle, authorities said.
Rebecca Kate Haley, 25, had been dead for at least seven hours when an illegal parking ticket was put on the windshield, authorities said.
Police spokesman Sgt. Johnny Williams Jr. said the officer didn’t see Haley because she was slumped over in the truck’s cab. Drug paraphernalia was found in the truck. (LINK)
Um, no offense, but if the officer placed the ticket on the windshield, how did he not see the woman was slumped over in the truck’s cab. I have given out plenty of tickets when I was in patrol, and I am 99% sure there weren’t any dead people inside the vehicles when I issued them.
Okay, maybe 85% sure.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Same thing happened out here in SoCal.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:31 am
Funny and disturbing at the same time.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:33 am
We had a dude shoot himself in the head while seated in his car, parked in front of a restaurant, and it was six hours before anybody found him. Granted, none of us wrote the guy a ticket, but no telling how many people walked right past him, and never noticed the guy with a gunshot wound in his head.
April 8th, 2009 at 5:56 am
Guy’s about as sharp as our dispatchers here in the Burgh.
April 8th, 2009 at 7:57 am
That and you’re in Philly, so it’s not like you have a lot of room to talk.
April 8th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Alabama has a police force???
I thought they still used the militia.
If anybody from that state wishes to throw stuff at me, please let it be your jumbo shimp.
April 8th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Alabama has a police force???
I thought they still used the militia.
If anybody from that state wishes to throw stuff at me, please let it be your jumbo shimp, wrapped in bacon.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
We had one of those in one of LASD’s patrol areas several years ago…..guy ate his gun in the driver’s seat, making a rather obvious errrrr….mess…….
A parking enforcement guy somehow missed the ‘mess’ and put a ducket on the windshield anyway
April 8th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I was not there, so I don’t know what happened. However, I have seen a lot of Alabaman pick up trucks, but I have yet to ever see one that wasn’t jacked up on monster tires that put the bottom of the windshield six feet from the asphalt. Ticket writer might have been a little guy, and couldn’t see up that high.
It also has been really cold down in the lower south, so there may have not been a real good smell to go on either.
Still it is a huge freaking thing to miss.
April 8th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Dr. Jim - Who knew this was happening?
RT - Correct.
JumpOut - Maybe they thought it was a big pimple?
cbullitt - You mean the ones who don’t tell the officers a man has a gun before cops are killed?
JoeMama - Touche’.
Kaveman - Jumbo shrimp wrapped in bacon. *drools*
Deputy Polarbear - Oh, for frak’s sake!
Marvin - You would think the officer would have noticed, but there you are.