Do NOT drive at speed limit if you're in Kansas City!!
 

Ice cream for safe drivers
by Associated Press posted Jul 29, 2004
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City police have taken a licking for a new program that rewards motorists who drive safely by stopping them and giving them coupons for free ice cream.

Sgt. Don Jantzen of the North Patrol Division said residents expressed concerns about the program and the department's legal counsel advised officers to stop it. He said the division commander will revamp it and come up with a new approach within two weeks.

Paula Talley was rewarded Monday for wearing her seat belt and yielding to traffic. She said she was afraid being stopped would make her late for work, although she made it on time.

"My job probably wouldn't have cared about free ice cream," she said.

Bill Calvert was stopped for driving the speed limit and using his signal. He said he could see people getting upset by such stops if they "were in the wrong frame of mind."

Sounds pretty stupid, yes.

Why don't they have a non-police day so people can go fast as they want? :)

that would piss me off a lot, if I saw a cop I would forget to signal or something just to avoid getting pulled over.

instead of catching criminals, this is just another example of wasting taxpayers money.

hahaha, stupid things to do with taxes

i dont understand how people are pissed jesus. They hate cops when they get pulled over and get a ticket, and they hate cops for rewarding them? wtf.

That is dumb...complete waste of tax money and considering the fact that I dont even really like ice cream makes it an even dumber idea..

lmfao, i believe there was a similiar prog running here in australia.

but i think they have stoped it now, after realising that they could pull people over and fine them and make money.

LOL thamar... they probably don't have that much crime in comparison to a bigger state or city :wink:

well i had no idea...thanx for telling me :wink:

hahahahaha! That's hilarious! :lol:

It sounds like a pretty bad idea, since it wastes people's time.

thats some good research you did on that. its got a population of around 500,000 is the biggest city in mo and in the top 50 in size in the us.

i think they should have just mailed out the coupons (using the address obtained from the license plate)
at least people won't be scared by the police, lol

hey now, lets not think logical. :wink:

they did do somthing like this in toronto I remeber my mom go free movie tickets

What's worse, getting pulled over by a cop (with a smile on his face) or walking home from the mailbox with a letter from the police dept ;)

you know how many times ive been in a rush to get somewhere and the mere inconvienece of getting pulled over/being late outweighs the actual ticket?

so yeah, unless im on a leisurely drive home from the gym, im usually going somewhere. and getting pulled over to get some stupid coupon for not doing anything wrong inconveniences me greatly.

just my .02