[toadman]

Hi folks! it's with great pride that I announce the birth of my daughter. Audrey Lee Eckert was born on Friday at 6:50 pm. Weighing in at 7lbs 12oz and 20" big, she joins her brother Kyle as heirs to the Eckert fortune!


and now....THE REST OF THE STORY.......

On friday night at about 10:00 I left the hospital to take 3 year old Kyle back to his grandparents' house after his visit to meet his new sister. We came upon a police sobriety checkpoint. No problem, I was in good shape even after 17 hours of my husbandly baby birthing duty. I was driving my wifes car, one of two Subaru Outbacks that we own.
When i couldn't find my wifes registration or insurance papers the cops checked us out on the computer.
There was NOTHING about her car on their database!
It seems the DMV NEVER sent us a re-reg form after we changed insurance companys a year ago! We've had 3 Subaru Outbacks in the past 4 years and we never noticed that one didn't get documentation!
I didn't bother at first to tell the cop that i had been at the hospital because years of late night driving experience has taught me that the "man" dosen't want to hear your sob story. But having not slept much in the last 20 hours I was having a hard time answering questions with the cruiser lights flashing and the rain falling and all, so when he finally asked where I had been I told him about the hospital/baby thing. He said I should have told him sooner and the tow truck was on it's way!!
So, they towed away our car(and the infant seat that my new daughter was going to ride home in) leaving me and little Kyle(who slept through the whole thing) to wait for a ride from my father.
So i was issued a summons for June 2nd. Hopefully I can put together enough documentation to convince the Hanging Judge of Rockville Superior Court. That the whole thing is a rotten misunderstanding on EVERYONES part and the police last friday didn't make the streets any safer by leaving an overtired man and a sleeping three year old boy on the side of the road in the rain.

Well......that's my story and I will end it with a question: perhaps i'm just more sensitve to it at this time but....where is the point at which a cop, or ANY authority figure, for that matter, should act from his heart, and forget what the computer says or dosent say?