A 2003 report by the Quality Planning Corporation, a San Francisco-based company, ranked 40 different occupations based on the number of traffic tickets each received during that year. Interestingly enough, Law Enforcement came in at 38th, bested only by homemakers and librarians. Cops must be AMAZINGLY safe drivers! or …

My brother once worked as a paramedic and he told me of the times he would be pulled over for speeding, or running lights, only to be let go once the officer saw the paramedic sticker in the back window. It is common knowledge, he claimed, that police officers never gave moving violation citations to other officers or to emergency medical personnel. I suppose that’s just viewed as convenient fringe benefit of the badge.

Introduce red-light cameras. Those are the annoying devices that take your picture if you run a red light. Computers being the disinterested technology that they are, take *everyone’s* picture, regardless of occupation. And according to a Dallas Morning News article today, these cameras are beginning to catch a number of police officers running lights without just cause. Those officers are being fined as if they were regular citizens. Oh, and the officers are upset over this. Obviously.

Lesson learned? You can’t outrun karma. It will always catch up with you.