I’m sure you’ve heard stories about fake police officers? Some are down right scary and others are funny. Here’s a funny one.
In Boca Raton Florida in March a man was flagged down by an imitation off-duty sheriff. He was apparently riding in his car with his girlfriend when he decided to stop an impolite driver.
When a real cop later showed up the first deputy was revealed to not be a police officer nor even a he! Rachel Otto, 21, appeared to be a man with short hair on top and shaved at the sides. Even his/her girl friend didn’t know that Rachel Otto was a woman and she’d been living with Otto for a week!
Otto has a rap sheet that includes 9 previous arrests for impersonating a police officer.
This weeks Theme is Fake
Metallic Beaver - just a little one.
I’m Canadian, eh. When we see a beaver we have to take a photo of it. Even if it’s fake.
We were at an outdoor art exhibition on Saturday when we came across an artist that had created metal sculptures of all kinds of animals. Moose, pigs, frogs, fish, birds and many others.
The sculptures were fantastic. I’m sure I’ll be posting more of them here.
One of the things that I really liked about the sculptures is the fact that they are made out of old metal items like the moose that’s made out of an old oil tank, or the pig that’s made out of an old propane tank. What better way to recycle?
Creative new way to get out of paying parking fines:
Kimberly Du of Iowa wanted to avoid paying her parking tickets. So much so that she faked her own death to avoid paying the $500 fine. Du went so far as to write her own phoney obituary, made to look like a page from The Des Moines Register’s website. She also forged a letter telling a judge that she had died in a car crash.
Wouldn’t there have been a police report for the car crash? Especially if it resulted in someone’s death? Perhaps criminal charges if another driver were involved? I guess the judge didn’t check on the letter or the obituary because Du was caught one month later when she received another parking ticket. I’ve heard of zealous traffic police, but ticketing the dead is taking it too far. 
Du now faces up to five years in prison for fraud.
What have you done to get out of paying parking tickets?
