| on 08-10-2008
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but an off-duty Travis County Sheriff's Deputy verbally assaulted me
in front of my kids today in a parking lot at HEB. This guy was stopped
near the front doors at HEB to pick up somebody so I passed him on the
left. He didn't care for that much apparently.
He also didn't
think much of the way I pulled into a parking spot after dropping my
wife off near another front door of the store. I saw a front row spot
and pulled down the row to get it so she would see where we were when
she came back out. The spot was on a row for cars coming the other way
(there were none coming at that time) so I pulled in, backed up, and
straightened out the car in the spot.
A few minutes went by, I
loaded a CD to play, then I heard a *tap tap* on my window. I rolled it
down to see what this man wanted and that's when he laid into me about
my driving and parking skills. He told me he was an off-duty Sheriff's
Deputy and continued to yell at me. I told him to stop talking to me
like that in front of my kids and he needed to leave. That's when he
decided to start cussing and told me if he had a squad car nearby he
would call it.
That made me mad and I almost unbuckled my seat
belt and got out of the car to get in his face. Instead I said, "You
definitely do not talk to me like that in front of my kids and now you need to
leave!"
I got his name and badge # to file a complaint. He said, "I'm taking
your plate # with me, too," to which I replied, "Please do!"
Sure,
I could have driven around to get that parking spot from the right
direction. But did I deserve to be verbally assaulted by an off-duty
deputy in front of my kids for it?
I think not.
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