my BIL was a cop and a pretty good F-wad himself, so were most of his partners.

The job wears people out and makes them f-wads even if they are not.

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I remember one incident where I was getting a ticket for an expired plate.

The thing was expired by a week and I had the stub to the registration, copy of the check and my expred registration, Back then, you could mail your fees in and it took a few weeks to get into the system.

The AH still writes me up and gives me the "You bikers do something dumb and WE have to come clean up the mess....."

I laughed and told him -in so many words - that he was full of shiat and the paramedics come and would scrape me off the ground-he only did the paper work. Some are well versed at making mountains out of molehills, they get the bad press while the good cops toil in anonimity.