Apart from bad grammar, I'm not sure what offense was committed by Jim Hart and Khalil Abusakran. The two men worked with others late this week to rescue a deer from the rigid water of Maryland's Patapsco River (pictured left). Said Abusakran: "We seen the deer going under. It couldn’t maintain. It was starting to freeze, and it was really getting bad." So they pulled the creature out of the water. And that's when Mr. Cop, sitting on the sidelines, reared his ugly head.Copper actually had the gall to write the two men tickets for being in the water without life jackets! $90 fine for each man! Can you say ticket quota? How about dumbass? How about the pawn shop security guard from Pulp Fiction? Same difference.
And the funny thing is, the two men say that the cop just sat there and watched them going in and out of the water without ever saying a word (or apparently lifting a finger to help)! "He didn’t stop us at all," said Hart. But why would the cop stop them? After all, if he had done that, he wouldn't have been able to write them tickets.
Finally, the real kicker: The two men claim they didn't break any law at all, since reportedly life jackets are only required in Maryland waterways if you're a kid or a teenager (which neither man is). But why ever let a pesky little thing like the law get in the away of writing some good tickets, right!? They say crime doesn't pay, and too often being a good samaritan is little different.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2010/12/17/good-samaritans-face-fine-after-rescuing-deer-from-icy-water/
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