Carnie's Comments
It's Throwback Thursday. Just a minute to remember days gone by.
I'll take you back to the summer of '87. I was the news anchor on the CHAB Morning Crew.
It was a beautiful, warm morning. I was in my Datsun on the way to the station, downtown, just before 4 AM.
I turned south on Main from Saskatchewan Street just as the traffic lights turned amber. There was no traffic so I just slowly cruised through the intersection at Main and Saskatchewan East as the lights turned red. It was, indeed, a traffic infraction by about 2 seconds.
I saw headlights several blocks away on Saskatchewan Street and hoped it wasn't a police cruiser.
I got to the bottom of the hill and there was a police car at the corner of Oxford and Main. It pulled out behind my and pulled me over at the 7-11. I knew the cop.
He said, "Did you just run a red light up on the hill?"
I said, "Did you see that?"
He said, "No but the staff sergeant did."
Those headlights on Saskatchewan East were attached to a cop car. The staff sergeant was out for a cruise. He pulled up to make sure the young officer would be issuing a ticket and that is, in fact, what he did.
I told him it was a cheap call.
He agreed.
I paid the fine. I'm still bitter.