Sunday, August 26, 2007

Can I Have your Autograph?

While parked on the corner bullshitting with my partner we suddenly observed a car blow through a red light. As we began to follow the car he blew through another light. We then pulled the vehicle over and we were both pretty amazed because of the balls on this guy. While my partner was talking to the driver I was snooping around the car and I saw a USA jacket in the back. The driver was being rude and disrespectful and seemed very agitated. He began to tell us we that we must have nothing better to do then pull him over while there are people out there selling drugs. Whenever someone says that I tell them to show me who is dealing the drugs and I will arrest them. That usually shuts them up. When we got back to our vehicle I looked at his license and was amazed at what I saw. It read Derrick Adkins. I thought to myself for a second and wondered if it was the same Derrick Adkins who won the gold medal in the 1996 Olympics in the 400 meter hurdles, the same man I looked up to when I was competing in the same event in college and in the military. After running his license it came back suspended! I told my partner who I thought he was and my partner said "I don't care if its the President it's time for some bologna and cheese". That's cop lingo which is a reference to what food is served to prisoners and it meant that he was gonna get locked up! So we locked him up, towed his vehicle and brought him back to HQ's. While he was in the cell I got on my soapbox and told him that as an Olympic gold medalist and as a person that young athletes look up to I was shocked by the way he treated the police and that I thought he should be ashamed of himself. He told me some down and out story and that he was sorry. I then slipped him my memo book and asked him if I could have his autograph and he looked at me like I was crazy as he signed the paper.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Isn't it so sad when we lose our heroes? The world so needs people to look up to. The news media only capitalizes on someones defeats in life. Wouldn't it be nice to read more about the challenges that were overcome rather than the downfalls.