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Originally Posted by link
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As an aside, someone should report your policeman friend to the local Mayor’s office for misappropriating public funds by giving away police property.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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Yes, because citizens should never stop and drop flares at accidents when they are the first ones on the scene.
Prior to complaining to that officer I had been the first to arrive at 4--count that again-- FOUR traffic accidents in a month, two of which the occupants were unconscious. All were well after sunset, two were on unlit roads. I was the one who called 911 for all of them.
I ran out of my own flares. Do you know how much a dozen 30 minute road flares cost? More than I could pay at the time (I was unemployed), and more than I can still afford to pay.
I went looking for flares, and finding a lack of flares both in stores and finding many online much too expensive I went to the police department. I asked were they sourced their flares in hopes that I'd find more attainable flares. I couldn't get an answer from anyone, but while walking back to my car Captain XXXX asked me what I wanted road flares for. I told him my situation and he told me that he'd rather have someone else out there stopping for accidents and that he'd supply me with flares as long as he worked for the county.
I don't find that to be a misappropriation of funds at all. Heck,
I'm a county taxpayer.