Yale Oklahoma…highway 51 towards cemetery turn off

Yale, OklahomaApr 17, 20110 Comments

We are from out of town and was heading to my grandmother’s funeral in Yale. The service was in Ponca City where I lived, but the graveside was in Yale. My wife, brother and sister were with me. Me and my brother were pall men. He stopped us at 1:40 pm. Funeral was to start at 2pm I obeyed all speed limits through the town, I know how these small town cops treat “outsiders”. Once through the town in goes back into the highway. Speed limit goes to 45, 55, then 65. There was a little truck in front of me going way under the speed limit. So I passed him. By the time I hit the 65 mph zone I was going 65. He pulled me over. I told him from the start I had a very important funeral that I couldn’t be late to. He didn’t care and said I was a threat to society. He sat in his car for 15 minutes. At this point I was boiling, to make a long story short. The funeral was waiting on us, they had to find 2 other people to do our pall role. It was humiliating. This is something i will never be able to make up. That is my memory of my grandmother’s funeral. He told me I was going 65 in a 45 but on the ticket he wrote 63 in 45. This cop is the police chief of Yale also. My court is tomorrow. So I have to drive 1 1/2 hours. I would just pay it…but I’m still very upset about this. I was no threat, I didn’t even care about getting a ticket. It was the manner he did it, He made sure to take the longest time he could, he was very rude, and didn’t care at all about us getting to the funeral. He should of stopped the car in front of me for impeding traffic. I’m not very familiar with Yale but it was on Highway 51 a little ways before the first Greenwood Cemetery turn off. If anyone has any tips to help me in court, let me know. Thanks

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