Okay, now, I am sure that some of you have been more corrupted by our modern society's forgetting of the principle of innocence until proven guilt have already trumped all sorts of sordid trumped up charges with which the State must have struck me, but the sad fact of the matter is that Halifax County's police department in the State of North Carolina stopped me while I was driving a Ryder truck [if you are not familiar with Ryder, they are a major competitor of the moving truck company U-Haul] during my exodus move from North Carolina back to Richmond, Virginia to give me a ticket for the hideous crime of "avoiding weigh station". Hello! I had never even heard of such. For those of you who might ever happen to pass through Halifax County, North Carolina [hopefully you will have the sense to not actually move there], beware: You must stop for weigh stations, just like you were a big gigantic eighteen wheeler commercial vehicle, if you are driving a little moving truck. And given their record on this matter, I would seriously suggest doing it, or they will haunt you for years, stabbing you in your legal back and refusing to end the matter. But I get ahead of myself, for surely you are probably assuming another horrid thought. Perhaps you entertained the possibility that I did not pay the ticket? Well, that would be to admit that you do not know me. I paid the foul, grossly ridiculous ticket like any helpless American citizen would, with a sense of absolute disgust at its stupid nature combined with a relief that this dumb experience was over. Or so I thought. As you already know, it was to come back to haunt me ten years later. Copyright © Conrad Hubbard |