Cops suck

We had to drop off the car at the garage this morning and it was fairly nice for a December day so instead of packing up Baby at 7:30am and taking two cars Baby's Mom said that she would take it and walk the mile and a half back home. She started back from the garage, which is just outside of town, and she heard dogs barking. She saw that there were three large dogs in a fenced yard running toward her. She stopped in fear and just then a truck pulled into the driveway of that house which was across the road from her. She continued on and a few minutes later a police car pulled up to her and the cop asked what she was doing, where she was going, etc. She asked what this was about and he said that they got a report of a suspicious person standing on the road watching that house. She then came home and told me about it and she was upset.

It turns out that the house with the dogs belongs to another cop. That explains why there was a car there within minutes. She also was wearing a big winter coat and an Elmer Fudd hat with ear flaps that connect under the chin. It is possible that she could have been mistaken for a teen aged boy instead of a woman with a PhD.

This is just another example of abuse of power--a very minor abuse unless you are the one being harassed. How long do you think it would take the police to send someone out if I reported a suspicious person in my neighborhood? And do they regularly stop people for looking suspicious?