Yeah, Right, Whatever

A Houston news crew went wandering through parking lots, looking for expired registration and inspection stickers. And they found a BUNCH. What's the big deal? The big deal is that those parking lots were at police stations.

Houston police were caught breaking laws they issue citations for on a regular basis, the KPRC Local 2 Troubleshooters reported in an exclusive story Thursday.

..."Officers are just as susceptible to forgetfulness and mistakes as everybody else," said Capt. Dwayne Ready, with the Houston Police Department.

But if everybody else lets their Texas registration or inspection stickers lapse, they are likely to get a pricey ticket.

If you're just a few days lapsed, you might get a warning... but probably not. So... these forgetful police officers were just a few days past due... right? WRONG.

Officer Deon Thomas has been driving a car to work with an expired inspection sticker and a registration that lapsed in August 2004.

...A pickup truck had no front tag and the registration expired in May 2003. It belonged to Sgt. Curtis B. Young.

...A female officer had an inspection sticker 1 year old.

A Cadillac had a police sign in the window and both stickers were old. ...Some officers' inspections lapsed not last year, but in 2004.

A pickup truck's registration has been illegal for a year and an officer's van did not have any registration at all.

On the eastside, an officer's car had no stickers.

At the northeast station, a vehicle's inspection was illegal since 2003 and the registration expired nine months ago.

East of downtown, one officer's registration was bad and his inspection expired in January 2002.

Officer John Woods' van registration expired in June.

I'd almost have some sympathy for them, except for one little problem. The place where you can get your inspections done... is right across the street.

Will these guys get tickets for their... forgetfulness? Nah... but thanks to "The Troubleshooters", maybe their get their cars inspected. Or not.