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   From: buck@claude.ma30.bull.com (Kenneth J. Buck)
Subject: Re: Quote of the da
   Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 13:25:21 -0400


> From: mikef@mer-mail.ctron.com (Michael Friedman)
> Subject: Re: Quote of the day
> 
>  > From: HOBBS_JEANNIE/HP4200_42@opnmail3.corp.hp.com
>  > Roadburn, I bet your cop was driving his kid's Festiva (his Electra was
>  > in the shop) and was thus in a sour mood anyway.
>  > Stopping in the middle of an off ramp is inexcusable.  If it'd caused
>  > an accident and you were hurt, you'd own the city.  He must have been
>  > really ticked!
> He must have been ticked at something else or he would have ticketed
> you!  In most places an officer doesn't have to be on duty to make
> an arrest or issue a citation.

no, but he does have to be within his jurisdiction, otherwise
he's not a "police officer".

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