A cop car trailed my partner for a while on the highway this afternoon. Then they put on the siren and pulled him over. He was on a major highway so it took ten minutes just to pull off it and into a side street.
They asked if he'd been drinking, and didn’t believe him when he said no. Got him to do a breath test which came back zero. Were convinced their gadget was busted and got him to do another one. Came back zero. (During this part of the story I pointed out that maybe if he stopped driving like a cautious old man they wouldn't think he was a drink driver, but I digress.)
Next they asked if he owned the car. He owns every bit of that 1980s Commodore (we call it the ‘Commobeast’), from the occasionally-working tape deck, to the air vent that blows small leaves and insects at passengers. Hell-bent on catching themselves a robber, they didn't believe it was his car and took his license away to check it on the little computer in their car. It's the most stolen type of car in Australia, maybe that's why. License check came back fine. He wasn't drunk or a car thief, which was apparently a bit disappointing for the police.
They were keen to find him guilty of some sort of shiftiness, so they grilled him about the disability parking permit on the dashboard. He said it was mine. Which it is. This is easy to ascertain, as my name is on it.
The cops were fresh out of potential crimes to ping him with, so they reluctantly said he could go. But not before telling him to stop keeping the permit on the dash, someone would punch in the windscreen to steal it. It hasn’t happened in the decade I’ve had the permit, but to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail, eh?
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