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I live on Main Street in Melrose, and put on my glasses, and vaguely saw two police cars parked on the street opposite my house. Being the nosy soul that I am, I walked to the front room to get a better view. Two cruisers had pulled over a beater of a car, and two young men who looked like college students were standing on the sidewalk. One officer was searching the car.
I was watching, trying to figure out exactly what was going on -- drugs, probably, I figured. But the two folks pulled over seemed calm, and unworried, so I was wondering if they'd just been pulled over for speeding, and the officers were giving them a hard time, or checking for open booze bottles (in Massachusetts, driving with an open bottle of alcohol in the car is illegal in its own right -- it's not even that it's considered presumptive cause for operating under the influence -- if there's an open bottle of booze or beer in a moving vehicle, that's illegal per se. They recently passed an amendment to the bill, a year or two ago, in order to allow people to bring half-drunk bottles of wine home from restaurants).
But the kids didn't seem too worried.
The officer opened the trunk, and looked through it.
And pulled out a 136 bus T stop sign.
The kids' heads sort of dropped, and they began kind of shuffling their feet. . . .
They just drove off, and the police put the T sign in their cruiser, presumably to put it back where it belongs. Don't know just how much trouble the kids are going to be in, but, I dunno, it looked, to me, like the police weren't that upset -- a couple college students stealing bus stop signs on the weekend that kids get back to college doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would surprise them that much . . . .
I was watching, trying to figure out exactly what was going on -- drugs, probably, I figured. But the two folks pulled over seemed calm, and unworried, so I was wondering if they'd just been pulled over for speeding, and the officers were giving them a hard time, or checking for open booze bottles (in Massachusetts, driving with an open bottle of alcohol in the car is illegal in its own right -- it's not even that it's considered presumptive cause for operating under the influence -- if there's an open bottle of booze or beer in a moving vehicle, that's illegal per se. They recently passed an amendment to the bill, a year or two ago, in order to allow people to bring half-drunk bottles of wine home from restaurants).
But the kids didn't seem too worried.
The officer opened the trunk, and looked through it.
And pulled out a 136 bus T stop sign.
The kids' heads sort of dropped, and they began kind of shuffling their feet. . . .
They just drove off, and the police put the T sign in their cruiser, presumably to put it back where it belongs. Don't know just how much trouble the kids are going to be in, but, I dunno, it looked, to me, like the police weren't that upset -- a couple college students stealing bus stop signs on the weekend that kids get back to college doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would surprise them that much . . . .
