Man ticketed after filming sleeping cops (w/ video)

[Classy@Home]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/02/24/17392796.html

TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. - A sharp-eyed citizen armed with a video camera caught two Quebec provincial police officers sleeping in their cruiser east of Montreal on Thursday morning.

Maxime Carpentier spotted the cruiser on a highway in Trois-Rivieres, about 90 minutes from Montreal. The footage shows the amateur cameraman walking up to the car just as one of the officers wakes up.

The officer jumped out of the car, asked Carpentier for his drivers' licence and gave him a $154 ticket for parking at the side of the road.

Once the video was posted on Youtube and other websites, provincial police informed Carpentier that they might cancel the ticket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nKhWlyoNYig#t=0s



Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha - caught...

But I'm sure the $154 ticket WASN'T retaliatory in nature, eh???

Lazy assholes w/ guns and ticket books. I'll bet if there wasn't video, those leo would have kicked the crap outta said civilian.

"MIGHT cancel ticket"???

 

[genkisan]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/02/24/17392796.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nKhWlyoNYig#t=0s



Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha - caught...

But I'm sure the $154 ticket WASN'T retaliatory in nature, eh???

Lazy assholes w/ guns and ticket books. I'll bet if there wasn't video, those leo would have kicked the crap outta said civilian.

"MIGHT cancel ticket"???

Naw, here in Kweebek the cops don't usually beat you up. If yer ethnic, they might shoot ya, but in a case like the one described in the OP, they won't rough someone up.

They'll just make sure he keeps getting frivolous tickets for ultra-minor infractions for a long long time......that's more the SQ's (Securite de Quebec) style.

 

[dubwise]

Imagine that. I ran across a sleeping swine early morning at a gas station...it was great..to see those there to serve and protect, sleeping and abusing their power.

 

[HighDesertJoe]

I would of told Leo that I was checking on them cause I thought they might have been SHOT and that I'm glad they're OK.
My Momma say's it's OK to Brown Nose a little if it gets you out of a ticket.

 

[Classy@Home]

Sleeping cops to face disciplinary hearing

Sleeping cops to face disciplinary hearing

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/02/25/17411046.html

- Quebec provincial police have opened an internal investigation to the case of their sleeping policemen.

Motorist Maxime Carpentier used his cellphone to record two male officers snoozing in the front seat of their car on a major highway in Trois-Rivieres, east of Montreal, this week. Carpentier was rewarded with a $154 ticket after he woke them up.

He posted the video to Youtube, where it's been viewed thousands of times.

A police spokeswoman, Sgt. Eloise Cossette, tells QMI Agency that the force will hold a disciplinary hearing into the incident.

"It's obvious that this type of behaviour is unacceptable," she said. "The two officers will have to produce a report to explain themselves."

Cossette said it's too early to say what disciplinary measures, if any, would be taken against the officers. Robert Poeti, a road-safety expert and one-time provincial police officer, tells QMI that the incident is embarrassing for his former colleagues.


"If they (the officers) were tired, they should have just returned to the station," said Poeti. "Their supervisor would have understood and definitely would have sent them home."

Carpentier was cited for parking his vehicle in an inappropriate spot - the side of the highway. He says he'll fight the ticket in court, since he only stopped because he was worried the officers might have been in danger.

"If they had been unconscious and I saved them from certain death, they would have thanked me," said Carpentier, 31.

But he says his faith in the police hasn't been shaken.

"When we need them, they're there for us," he said. "Those two are just bad apples in the bunch."

"The two officers will have to produce a report to explain themselves."

Indeed...

 

[ddrew]

Sleeping off a donut binge no doubt