Traffic ticket

[Edward Carwithen]

You think Tillamook is a small town in cow country ... HA!!!!!.  Try John
Day.  We have the only traffic light in the county (that's right, folks,
just one traffic light in the whole county).  I got a ticket for turning
right on red at that traffic light, without coming to a full stop.
  We do have cows, (we were on 60 minutes this year because one of our
residents shot 13 of his neighbors cows that had traspassed onto his land.
The shooter was found guilty, and will be sentenced on Dec 15th) and twice
a year they drive them cows straight through the middle of town from the
grazing place on the mountain to the feed lot. 
  Fortunately, they also have a lot of pianos.  Unfortunately, most of them
came around the horn in sailing ships about the year 1350.
 

At 07:50 PM 11/25/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We all drive about being quite busy and now and again some of us push
>things to the limits and get a ticket.  I got one in a small town for
>turning left at a no left turn intersection when I was in a hurry and the
>only cop in town got me ..........  fer $170.
>
>I was told they might consider refunding part of the fine if I wrote them a
>nice letter.  I didn't get any refund but I had fun writing the letter to a
>city hall of a cow infested county .......  Tillamook, Or.  I'll send the
>letter if anyone would like to read it.  It could be light hearted reading
>during a very hectic (and depressing for some) time of year.
>
>Lar
>
>
>                                    Larry Fisher RPT
>   specialist in players, retrofits, and other complicated stuff
>      phone 360-256-2999 or email larryf@pacifier.com
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>
>
Ed Carwithen
Oregon