From CBS Baltimore: Strangers banded together to pull a deer out of the freezing water of the Patapsco River on Thursday night.
“We seen the deer going under,” said Khalil Abusakran. “It couldn’t maintain. It was starting to freeze, and it was really getting bad.”
Abusakran brought a raft, and Jim Hart joined him...
But in the excited aftermath of the rescue, a natural resources police officer on the scene wrote both men a ticket.
“And he didn’t say anything,” Jim Hart said. “We went in and out of the water numerous times. He didn’t stop us at all.”
They say they were ticketed for not wearing life vests, although both are over the age for mandatory use of flotation devices.
“No, we didn’t have vests on, but we’re not 16 years old,” Abusakran said. “There were personal floating devices on the boat.”
The ticket itself doesn’t check off any specific violation, just a $90 fine.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2010/12/17/good-samaritans-face-fine-after-rescuing-deer-from-icy-water/
So, some stupid bureaucratic wild life officer doesn't even bother to help these guys while they try to save a life of a deer, which is the job of the officer, and then writes a ticket, not even saying what law the guys broke.
The judge should throw out this ticket and make the natural resource officer do a polar bear plunge in thong underwear in front of an audience of PETA members.
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