Fake Ticket

I don't remember the date, but shortly after we moved to Mesquite, it was pretty close to Christmas. I got a call from some local radio station DJ wanting to interview me about getting a traffic ticket in Denton.  

I told him I had never even been to Denton, so I was sure I had not gotten a ticket.  

He read me the report that Denton PD had sent out as a press release. At the time the PD would send out a summary of all radio calls from the previous day. An officer who shall remain nameless (because I can't remember his name) had called the dispatch center and asked for a “wants and warrants check” on Santa Claus. He gave my address in Mesquite, and my Drivers License number. The dispatch center called the officer back on the radio and reported no outstanding wants or warrants on Santa Claus. 

This started a volley of conversations by the whole squad of officers on duty that night. They probably had a good laugh about it. 

WELL, I wasn't laughing. Here we go again, a recurrence of what happened in New London, except I doubted I would get a Public Relations tour out of this one. 

I asked the DJ for any info on the officer. They had some ID on him, I don't think it was his name, maybe it was his badge number. Since I was a little hot under the collar, I called the Denton Police Department, and wanted to speak to the officer. They had him call me back. 

We spoke on the phone for a while, and he started out telling me he stopped a guy on I-35 in Denton for some infraction. The infractor (is that even a word?) said he did not have his Driver’s License with him, but said his name was Santa Claus, lived in Mesquite, and worked at the phone company. I thought it was probably a co-worker who knew me and wanted to get out of a traffic ticket. 

That turned out to be a BS story. 

I later found out that the officer had been bored, and typed in Santa Claus Into the terminal in his police car, and thought it would be funny to call in a Wants and Warrants request so close to Christmas. 

I filed a complaint about the incident and he almost got fired by Denton PD. I hadn't wanted that to happen, so I just dropped my complaint. 

That just goes to show you, DON'T MESS WITH SANTA!