02-03-2007, 13:06
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Got to respect this guy
Gotta respect the man!
Feb 3, 7:52 AM (ET)
"KEWASKUM, Wis. (AP) - Police Chief Richard Knoebel says he wasn't about to take the easy way out when he accidentally drove past a stopped school bus with its emergency lights flashing.
For violating traffic laws, Knoebel wrote himself a ticket for $235, docked himself four points on his driving record and paid the fine the next day."
http://apnews.myway.com//article/200...D8N28BCG0.html
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02-03-2007, 13:13
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Now THAT's leadership by example. 
I doubt that anyone else ever asks him "Hey, Officer, give me a break just this once."
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02-03-2007, 14:49
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Reminds me of Confederate General Braxton Bragg, when he was a young officer in the U.S. Army, assigned to multiple simultaneous positions at a post in the West.
He requested supplies as a Company Commander, denied them himself as the S-4, then appealed to himself as the Adjutant, and wrote a memo denying his own appeal back to himself.
Why did the Chief not just stop for the bus?
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02-03-2007, 15:05
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Reminds me of Confederate General Braxton Bragg, when he was a young officer in the U.S. Army, assigned to multiple simultaneous positions at a post in the West.
He requested supplies as a Company Commander, denied them himself as the S-4, then appealed to himself as the Adjutant, and wrote a memo denying his own appeal back to himself.
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And people wonder why the South lost? 
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02-03-2007, 15:13
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Why did the Chief not just stop for the bus?
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From the article:
He said he was on patrol on four-lane U.S. 45 when he was distracted by a stopped dump truck. He saw a car coming from behind and thought it might hit the truck, so he moved to pass the truck before he saw the stopped school bus in the far lane.
He said he didn't realize he had passed the bus until it was too late.
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And people wonder why the South lost?
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Oh no, not again. We'll have to hijack another thread to defend our honor.
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02-03-2007, 15:28
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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
And people wonder why the South lost? |
He did it as a Federal officer.
The South just made him a General, for reasons that are entirely wrong.
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02-03-2007, 16:34
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I once heard of a self-employed guy who slipped going down the stairs to his office. He sued himself for negligence (loose carpet) and won medical costs and pain and suffering. His insurance had to pay off. Don't know if it's true, or apocryphal.
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02-03-2007, 17:06
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Originally Posted by mugwump
I once heard of a self-employed guy who slipped going down the stairs to his office. He sued himself for negligence (loose carpet) and won medical costs and pain and suffering. His insurance had to pay off. Don't know if it's true, or apocryphal.
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Do you think they raised his premiums to cover it?
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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02-03-2007, 22:21
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Originally Posted by Snaquebite
For violating traffic laws, Knoebel wrote himself a ticket for $235 . . .
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Maybe it boosted him a couple of spots up in the end-of-month drawing for the big-screen TV?
Last edited by vsvo; 02-03-2007 at 22:23.
Reason: To add the smiley before the LEO's jump my ass.
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02-03-2007, 23:39
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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
And people wonder why the South lost? |
RL
It's 1-0 at halftime.
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02-04-2007, 03:17
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RL
It's 1-0 at halftime.
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I like that perspective. We didn't lose. We just ran out of time!
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