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Woman in Labor Issued Traffic Ticket

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This cop ought to get an entry in Dickipedia.


BOSTON -- A Dracut mother who was in labor drove to the hospital in the breakdown lane but while some state troopers waved the parents on to the hospital, one didn't agree.


"He asked if I needed an ambulance, I said 'No. If I keep moving," John Davis said.

Two weeks ago, Jennifer and John Davis headed to Cambridge from their home -- right into the rush hour slowdown.

They drove down the highway breakdown lane after two different state troopers said to proceed carefully. But a third trooper on Route 2 made them stop and wait while he wrote another motorist a ticket and promised a citation would come in the mail. It did -- for $100.
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All they need to do is get a local talk radio station involved. I'd bet it'd be dismissed.
 
That's Rt2 po-pos for ya. They are BRUTAL. (I grew up near this very stretch of road)

Funny story - same thing happened to my mom back in the day - heading to the ER - cop meets us in the ER to give her a ticket for speeding. :rolleyes:

Judge tossed it without blinking an eye.

That also was on Rt2 FTW!
 
What a moron, so, if he gets shot in duty, and decides he cant wait for a ambulance, and has to drive in this very lane, does have to stop and give himself a ticket? Or would that be too much of a mindf**k for him and would his head asplode...
 
jaw04005 said:
Oddly enough that happens quite a bit here too. Hilariously, the last time I saw a police officer do that he pulled into a local doughnut shop.
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Tim Horton's is no ordinary doughnut shop! :eek:

I think we can excuse them for that. :p

I did notice that the worse offenders around here are the Sherrif's deputies. They typically speed for no apparent reason, don't fully stop, etc.
 
Here is another version. If she was going to the nearest hospital, I would say the cop was a prick. But if you are going into labour, still going to a hospital 30 miles away and refuse to use an ambulance, I don't have any sympathy for her. You can't do whatever you want just because you are going into labour, get to the nearest hospital if it's an emergency. :rolleyes:

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Though the Davises live about 30 miles away in Dracut, Jennifer Davis, 38, wanted to have her baby at Mount Auburn, where she had also given birth to her 7-year-old son, Brendan.

"For 10 months we had been saying, 'As long as I don't go into labor during rush hour' - which we did," said Davis, a social worker for a visiting nurse group affiliated with the hospital.
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heehee said:
Here is another version. If she was going to the nearest hospital, I would say the cop was a prick. But if you are going into labour, still going to a hospital 30 miles away and refuse to use an ambulance, I don't have any sympathy for her. You can't do whatever you want just because you are going into labour, get to the nearest hospital if it's an emergency. :rolleyes:

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That reminds me of this incident a few months back at the clinic I used to work at. These people came in with a kid who had broken his arm in two, the bone sticking out and everything. First they drove the kid over 60 miles from their home to the clinic, which is located right next to a hospital with an emergency room. The nurses bandaged up the arm, but couldn't put it in a cast or anything so they had to take the kid to another facility. Instead of taking him to the hospital across the street, they drove him 65 miles back in the same direction from which they came to another hospital.

Ah, the freedom of choice in the American healthcare system.
 
heehee said:
Here is another version. If she was going to the nearest hospital, I would say the cop was a prick. But if you are going into labour, still going to a hospital 30 miles away and refuse to use an ambulance, I don't have any sympathy for her. You can't do whatever you want just because you are going into labour, get to the nearest hospital if it's an emergency. :rolleyes:

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Obviously, you've never been around a woman in labor. There is no convincing or explaining that will get her to agree to something she doesn't want to do.
 
No reason to put other people's lives in danger by driving like an idiot, when a simple phone call brings medical aid to you.

Can't seem to see when it said the ticket was written and the woman finally gave birth.

The officer definitely isn't a ******** if the woman was in labor at the hospital for an addition 5-12 hours, before final delivery of a screaming brat.
 
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