Did I Ever Tell You About...
how a New York State Policeman threatened to throw me in jail for 30 days?
Machismo Cop (MC) : Hi ma'am (!) Where are you coming from?
Pooty-Tang (PT) : Lake Placid
MC : Where are you from?
PT : Massachussetts
(Scratches his chin, trying to figure out in both his tiny heads how someone from Massachusetts can be yellow...)
MC : Where were you born?
PT : China
(MC looks at Spicy Toad)
Spicy Toad : Massachusetts
(MC looks at Weifer Reefer in the back seat)
Weifer Reefer : Malaysia.
(MC is still trying to use both his heads with even more puzzled look on his face)
WR : Oh, I'm an international student.
MC : I see, can you roll down your window ma'am
(MC makes his way to the left back seat window)
MC : Can I see your documentation ma'am
WR : I don't have my documentation on me, we came from Massachusetts to New York. I have my student ID....
MC : Well ma'am, you're supposed to have your documentation on with you at ALL times..
WR : I was only told I needed it to enter and leave the U.S. so I don't carry it with me for domestic travel because I don't want to lose it..
MC : Well if I were to enforce the law, it would be $100 fine and 30 days in jail..
WR : for not having my documentation on me?
MC : Yes ma'am..(puts both hands on belt, like they do on COPS)
WR : (realizing at that moment that there's something in the car that shouldn't be there) Ok, I'm really sorry, I'll carry it from now on..really, I'm sorry. I really am. I didn't know, I wasn't told. *Please god please don't search the car*
MC : Alright ma'am...carry on. Don't do it again.
WR : Thank you, officer. *PHEW*
zooooooooooooom...and we drive off.
Anyway, the morals of the story are:
1) Most cops are pricks with even smaller pricks and a bad case of Napolean complex, especially those stuck with the less exciting tasks of border patrol
2) Next time, just say you were born in New Yawk City.
3) Carry your I-20 and passport with you at all times, even though there is no mention of it on the document itself. Assholes.
4) Don't carry dubious *stuff* with you when you're going interstate. I should have learned from watching COPS religiously. Oops
5) Brunettes may have more fun, but Blondes gat away with everything.
Scene: It is 11.30 in the morning on South Interstate-87 when Pooty-Tang, Spicy-Toad and Weifer Reefer drive into a routine border patrol road block. Pooty-Tang is driving, Spicy Toad is in the front passenger seat and Weifer Reefer is in the backseat with the rest of the bags.
Machismo Cop (MC) : Hi ma'am (!) Where are you coming from?
Pooty-Tang (PT) : Lake Placid
MC : Where are you from?
PT : Massachussetts
(Scratches his chin, trying to figure out in both his tiny heads how someone from Massachusetts can be yellow...)
MC : Where were you born?
PT : China
(MC looks at Spicy Toad)
Spicy Toad : Massachusetts
(MC looks at Weifer Reefer in the back seat)
Weifer Reefer : Malaysia.
(MC is still trying to use both his heads with even more puzzled look on his face)
WR : Oh, I'm an international student.
MC : I see, can you roll down your window ma'am
(MC makes his way to the left back seat window)
MC : Can I see your documentation ma'am
WR : I don't have my documentation on me, we came from Massachusetts to New York. I have my student ID....
MC : Well ma'am, you're supposed to have your documentation on with you at ALL times..
WR : I was only told I needed it to enter and leave the U.S. so I don't carry it with me for domestic travel because I don't want to lose it..
MC : Well if I were to enforce the law, it would be $100 fine and 30 days in jail..
WR : for not having my documentation on me?
MC : Yes ma'am..(puts both hands on belt, like they do on COPS)
WR : (realizing at that moment that there's something in the car that shouldn't be there) Ok, I'm really sorry, I'll carry it from now on..really, I'm sorry. I really am. I didn't know, I wasn't told. *Please god please don't search the car*
MC : Alright ma'am...carry on. Don't do it again.
WR : Thank you, officer. *PHEW*
zooooooooooooom...and we drive off.
Anyway, the morals of the story are:
1) Most cops are pricks with even smaller pricks and a bad case of Napolean complex, especially those stuck with the less exciting tasks of border patrol
2) Next time, just say you were born in New Yawk City.
3) Carry your I-20 and passport with you at all times, even though there is no mention of it on the document itself. Assholes.
4) Don't carry dubious *stuff* with you when you're going interstate. I should have learned from watching COPS religiously. Oops
5) Brunettes may have more fun, but Blondes gat away with everything.
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