Giving Birth? Driving in the breakdown lane? That's a ticket....

[zeitgeist]

<r><URL url="</s>Mass. man ticketed in gridlock while wife in labor<e></e></URL><br/>

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</s>BOSTON (AP) — A man in Massachusetts is appealing a $100 ticket he got for driving to a hospital in the breakdown lane of a gridlocked Boston highway while his wife was in labor.<br/>
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The Boston Globe reports that a state trooper pulled over John Davis and his wife Jennifer for using the breakdown lane on Nov. 18.<br/>
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The Dracut man says his wife's contractions were three minutes apart. The couple says the trooper made them wait five to 10 minutes while he wrote a ticket for another car on Route 2, asked to see Jennifer's belly to prove her pregnancy, then issued them a ticket.<br/>
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The couple made it to Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. Their daughter was born five hours later.<br/>
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State police say no discipline is likely for the trooper.<e>

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<URL url="</s>Here's another with more detail<e></e></URL>. Apparently they passed two other troopers that let them pass without hesitation once they learned she was in labor.<br/>
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No dicipline for the trooper? Another story I read says that he's not being diciplined because he made a judgement call and that the couple isn't going to take action against this nimrod. <br/>
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The trooper is VERY lucky I'm not his supervisor. That kind of authority combined with lack of judgement doesn't belong anywhere near the public.<br/>
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There are a whole host of reasons this was a TERRIBLE call. What if there had been complications? What if there had been complications that could have been taken care of if she could have gotten medical attention in a timely fashion? Heck, what if she had simply given birth right there on the side of the road? <br/>
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If something like this were to happen to me while I drive my wife to the hospital... well, I'm not a litigious person by nature, but if the police department felt they needed to get wrapped up in the delivery, they would certainly help pay for the upbringing. &lt;E&gt;<EMOJI seq="1f620">:angry:</EMOJI>&lt;/E&gt;&lt;/r&gt;

 

[Music-dad]

I saw that on the news...

Best part is when the moron cop, asks the mom to be:

"Ok lady...what are you hiding under your shirt?"

Hahaha...epic stupidity!

 

[Dadu2004]

That cop needs to be disciplined. That's nothing more than him throwing his weight around because he wears a badge. Grrrrrr!

 

[Music-dad]

So far the cop has refused comment.....gee, I wonder why?

 

[mom2many]

That would have pee'ved me. My second DD was born at home on the couch, but had my husband gotten home in time to take me to my dr's appointment I would have had her on the side of the road, that's how fast it was. And a cop issuing a ticket instead of helping would have sent me into an uproar.

 

[Brea_Butt]

If a cop would have stopped my fiance while I was giving birth in the back seat, I would tear him/her apart...Unless they are planning to help us get there or help deliver they better not try write a ticket or hold us...Of all the times we rushed to the hospital with pre-term labor, we were never pulled over thankfully. That cop needs to be disciplined, he should have to pay the ticket and then some...