October 9, 2010 2:27 AM PDT
Small town cops SCARE me....
We had a few bad apples in the small town I grew up in. When I was in high school, we had a guy everybody called "Otto", a young guy promoted from parking enforcement, that was over at my folks' place to investigate a break-in. Seemed like a good enough guy. Except a week later, he was off the force, accused of picking up girls from the high school and taking them back to his place for a nooner over lunch hour.
Another guy had an off-duty run-in with a local bar owner (and good friend of mine), so he started parking just outside of Pete's lot at bar time to watch for OWIs. Pulled me over one night after my muffler broke coming out of Pete's lot, smelled alcohol (I'd had exactly one beer that night), and made me do the whole routine before letting me go. Another friend wasn't so lucky and was arrested for OWI within one city block of his house.
Most of 'em are good guys, but I keep my eyes open, too.