I try not to bash the police on this site because they have one of the toughest jobs on the planet, but this is a pretty dick move no matter how you look at it.
As it turns out the Southern Ontario Mini Club likes to get all the local Mini Cooper owners together to share their common love for the little British German go-kart. These get together’s inevitably turn into spirited drives around the area. The drives then got turned into ‘charity drives’ and I’m sure you can insinuate by the name what that means. These charity drives only happen twice a year, and this year the Mini Club was excited for charity drive number one because they had 30 Mini owners sign up for it.
To ensure everything went smoothly, the Club notified the local Ontario police department as a courtesy to let them know that 30 Minis would be driving around town so that they wouldn’t think something suspicious was happening.
The first drive went smoothly, as they only encountered one OPP officer who seemingly was cool with everything and let the Mini brigade continue on. He even commented how there was only one OPP officer up the road and that he would let the other officer know so there would be no incident.
But that didn’t happen.
Not only was there more than one officer waiting, but there was an entire sting operation waiting to nab the Minis! They pulled over the entire convoy and gave speeding citations out to three of them who were going 120 kph in a 90 zone. One Mini owner even had their car confiscated. Pulling over a convoy of cars who gave notification is pretty low, but doing it to those who are just trying to raise money for charity is even lower.
Oh wait, no it isn’t. Because the police got as low as they could go when it was revealed that they purposely targeted the Minis from the beginning and set up the whole operation ahead of time as soon as they were notified by the Club that they’d be passing through. They even called a local television station so that they could film the sting operation in action! On top of that, they even called child services on some of the Mini owners who had their children with them along for the ride.
The video of the police serving and protecting being huge pricks has since been taken down by the TV station on the request of one of the Mini owners. There have been no apologies given so far by the OPP.
You get a tremendous FAIL for this one, OPP.
I guess you shouldn’t have been speeding…..
Just to clarify, I personally was not involved with this, so I was not the one speeding.