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This happened years ago
The booking officer
A cousin who knew my father
Probably thinking like father
like son!
The first ticket
You be the Judge
I dropped a dime in meter
It dropped but stopped
As I was leaving
A metermaid was writing a ticket
I said, "Wait I put a dime in!"
Tapped the meter went of two hours
"Tell it to the Judge!"
My son was being baptized in
fifteen minutes my time to get there
She put the ticket in my wipers
I reached from inside window in the car
As she released it I pulled it in the car
"YOu can't touch that until I say you can!"
"Lady. I am late to my son's baptism."
So she went back to her meter thing and stalled
I drove away with the ticket
I could hear her yelling my license
I stopped at Georgetown precinct
"I need to--? Sorry a emergency!"
I heard my license and description
I said, "That's me and my car!"
"Hands behind your back up against the wall!"
Confused, I wasn't fast enough
He hit me once on the neck and twice
poked me in the belly with a nightstick
Military taught me martial arts training
I took the night stick threw it away against the wall
Raised my hands he was yelling, "Mayday--mayday!"
Cops came from everywhere surrounding me
A couple elbows and I was free and confused back to wall
Five revolvers were pointed directly at me
I was handcuffed and thrown to the floor
Lead outside to a patrol car
You know the bit, "Watch you head Sir!"
Mine was slammed into the roof of the car.
Blood was running down my face
Passerby yelled, "He is not resisting!"
I was thrown a chair asking for my phone call
Downtown, I was fingerprinted, booked and led to a cell
Yeah, I missed my son's baptism
Day went to night and I could just hear noises
Finally a gentleman in a suit came in
He was asking me questions with a notepad
I Said, "What is this all about?"
"I don't know I am a reporter for the Seattle Times
I was told you assaulted a meter maid and she is missing",
She took her little truck and went to Penny's to shop
Parked it in the alley and a girlfriend took her home
But not before she was yelling she was being assaulted
My first ticket was for assaulting a metermaid,
resisting arrest, breaking one officer's wrist and
another's officer had a broken rib, My car was impounded
This is not made up. I was a deacon in my Church. I had
no idea what was setting everyone off. I just asked for
a phone call, denied. Wife was searching hospitals and
one of the calls was to Georgetown police Precinct
No one had any idea of where I might be. The lady
was having a bad day so while on duty went shopping
Upon release the officer said after six hours you are
free to go. I said can I use your phone. He said, "no
There is a bus line out front." I said I used my last dime
in the meter. They were going to charge me with vagrancy
The reporter saw me and offered to take me to my car.
It had been impounded in a fifteen minute zone. The
wife would not speak to me for two day for missing the
Baptism. I was told if I went to court. Two police officers
would testify against me for breaking a rib and a wrist
The black metermaid said I used a racial term against her
I did not even have the word in my vocabulary. Two porters
"black" who I shared lunch with saw it all. She refered to me
the whole time as "Honkey" a term I also had never heard
I did not have to pay the impound fee, charges were dropped,
and my only request was she be fired. She was for shopping on
duty and she could not be found for six hours only her abandoned
truck behind Penny's department store.