Sheriff's deputies to give baseball tickets, not traffic

Sheriff's deputies to give baseball tickets, not traffic tickets
Effort is to encourage good driving

By Tony Plohetski
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, March 08, 2006

If you see blue police lights in your rearview mirror this week, there may be no need for a churning stomach or sweaty palms.

Instead of a speeding ticket, you may get two free passes to a Round Rock Express baseball game as a reward for good driving.

Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton and Round Rock Express CEO Reid Ryan announced the giveaway Tuesday.

"We want to recognize people who are driving legally and driving in the right manner," Hamilton said

Sheriff's officials said the Express has given the department about 200 tickets, which will be distributed by 20 deputies.

Hamilton said deputies will pull motorists over, just as they would during a routine traffic stop. He said he is sure some drivers will initially have "a few choice words" for deputies before they explain the stop and award the tickets.

"There's a lot of opportunity for people to get tickets in their cars, but not baseball tickets," Ryan said. "It is in the best interest of all of us to promote safe driving."

tplohetski@statesman.com; 445-3605

well thats nice

would like to see the look on the face of the person being stopped.... :shock: ... what did i do?.... was i driving too slow?? :lol:

Tell you what, if they did that around here, I'D slow down to the speed limit!

I have seen this before... I forget what they were handing out but I think it was something chessy like thank you certificate or something. :roll:

On second thought it may have been some game tickets or something, don't remember. :?

Hmmm, time for a trip or two trhough Round Rock. Think they will still give me the tickets if they see my RD? :)

Oh that reminds me of a prank i did on my friend. I got this rolling stones issue with the special mini cooper ad that contained 5 fake orange citations. It looks like the real thing...except on the back it has the tiny mini cooper logo on the top left hand..and nxt to it says citation. So i checked of on the ticket...good parking, car is too dirty, and thanks for driving with the top off. So im walking to class and i see tiff in the hallway..and im like...omg some cop put a ticket on your car window and it says citation on it. shes like omg noooo what did i do? she thought maybe her headlights were broken or sumthin. so shes all worried..and she calls me after school and shes like..the police wrote me a ticket for good parking??? she literally walked around her car 3 times to see if it was actually good parking. then shes like..ummm too dirty? but its so clean rite now...this ticket is soo confusing. and she was happy about the good driving that i checked off. by then she was reallllllllllllllly conffused and i laughed my A$$ off. then her friends were like...tiff..that ticket is a fake. and tiff is like..umm i dont think so..it looks real 2 me. haha then she finally realized it was a joke...shes blonde btw. But yes...that was me giving a ticket 2 her for her safe driving, good parking, dirty car, and going topless.

Sounds like an excuse for the cops to pull you over for no reason. Example: I stopped this person for good driving to give them baseball tickets then I noticed (fill in the blank) laying on the passenger seat.

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Originally Posted by xihua

Oh that reminds me of a prank i did on my friend. I got this rolling stones issue with the special mini cooper ad that contained 5 fake orange citations. It looks like the real thing...except on the back it has the tiny mini cooper logo on the top left hand..and nxt to it says citation. So i checked of on the ticket...good parking, car is too dirty, and thanks for driving with the top off. So im walking to class and i see tiff in the hallway..and im like...omg some cop put a ticket on your car window and it says citation on it. shes like omg noooo what did i do? she thought maybe her headlights were broken or sumthin. so shes all worried..and she calls me after school and shes like..the police wrote me a ticket for good parking??? she literally walked around her car 3 times to see if it was actually good parking. then shes like..ummm too dirty? but its so clean rite now...this ticket is soo confusing. and she was happy about the good driving that i checked off. by then she was reallllllllllllllly conffused and i laughed my A$$ off. then her friends were like...tiff..that ticket is a fake. and tiff is like..umm i dont think so..it looks real 2 me. haha then she finally realized it was a joke...shes blonde btw. But yes...that was me giving a ticket 2 her for her safe driving, good parking, dirty car, and going topless.

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Yeah I saw those fake citations, they were in a Maxim issue too.