Stop Light

A motorcycle officer stops a man for running a red light. The guy is a real jerk and goes running back to the officer demanding to know why he is being harassed! The officer calmly tells him about his light violation.

The driver flies into a tirade, questioning the officer's ancestry, sexual orientation, and more, all in explicit pejorative terms. The officer, a professional, takes it all in his stride.

The tirade goes on without the cop saying a word. When he finishes writing the citation, he adds AH in the lower right corner of citation, underlines it and hands it to the irate man for his signature.

After signing the citation, the violator points at the initials AH and demands to know what it means.

The officer removes his mirror sunglasses, gets in the middle of the guyıs face and says, "That's so when we go to court, I'll remember you're an Ass Hole!"

Three months later they're in court. The violator has such a bad record he is about to lose his license and hires an attorney to represent him. On the stand the officer testifies to seeing the man run the red light.

In the cross, the defense attorney asks, "Officer, is this a reasonable facsimile of the citation you issued my client?"

The officer looks at it and says, "Yes sir, this is the defendantıs copy, his signature and mine, same number at the top."

The attorney asks, "Officer, is there any particular marking or notation on this citation you don't normally make?"

"Yes sir, in the lower right corner I added the letters AH and underlined them."

Attorney: "What did you mean by writing AH on the citation?"

Officer: "Aggressive and Hostile, sir."

Attorney: "Aggressive and hostile?"

Officer: "Yes Sir."

Attorney: "Officer, are you sure it doesn't stand for Ass Hole?"

Officer: "Well Sir, you know the defendant better than I do."