10-31-2015, 10:45 PM
10-20-2015
Cop Issues Thank You Letter to Mom Instead of Speeding Ticket
When you get pulled over for speeding, the last thing you’d expect to get from the police officer is a thank you. But that’s exactly what happened to Ayla Hemeon, of Georgetown, S.C., when she was racing with her daughter to deliver a carved Halloween pumpkin to her parents last weekend.
“It was Sunday afternoon and I had spent the morning getting the house cleaned up,” Hemeon, 42, told ABC News. “It had been a hectic weekend. My daughter and I carved a pumpkin for my parents and she had so much homework to finish up. Around 3 p.m. we got in the car to take the pumpkin to my parents house and I wanted to hurry to drop it off to get back home so she could finish up her stuff for school.
“The police officer came to my car and told me he was stopping me for speeding and asked if there was any lawful reason for me speeding,” she recalled. “I told him the story about how I was trying to hurry to my parents so we could get back home quickly.”
The cop listened, and then “he went back to his car and didn’t say a word.”
“He was very serious,” said Hemeon. “He goes back to his car and is in there for what feels like an eternity. But then he comes back and hands me what I thought was a ticket.”
The ticket, however, ended up teaching her a much more important lesson than not to speed.
“He said, ‘This is just a warning. It’s not a ticket. You don’t have to do anything with this, but there’s a message on the bottom of the ticket for you,’” Hemeon recalled.
Sergeant Steven Church then walked away, leaving her speechless.
Church’s handwritten note on the warning read, “Thanks for all that you do. You could have spent Sunday alone but, you’re spending it helping your parents and daughter. Have a good day.”
Cop Issues Thank You Letter to Mom Instead of Speeding Ticket
When you get pulled over for speeding, the last thing you’d expect to get from the police officer is a thank you. But that’s exactly what happened to Ayla Hemeon, of Georgetown, S.C., when she was racing with her daughter to deliver a carved Halloween pumpkin to her parents last weekend.
“It was Sunday afternoon and I had spent the morning getting the house cleaned up,” Hemeon, 42, told ABC News. “It had been a hectic weekend. My daughter and I carved a pumpkin for my parents and she had so much homework to finish up. Around 3 p.m. we got in the car to take the pumpkin to my parents house and I wanted to hurry to drop it off to get back home so she could finish up her stuff for school.
“The police officer came to my car and told me he was stopping me for speeding and asked if there was any lawful reason for me speeding,” she recalled. “I told him the story about how I was trying to hurry to my parents so we could get back home quickly.”
The cop listened, and then “he went back to his car and didn’t say a word.”
“He was very serious,” said Hemeon. “He goes back to his car and is in there for what feels like an eternity. But then he comes back and hands me what I thought was a ticket.”
The ticket, however, ended up teaching her a much more important lesson than not to speed.
“He said, ‘This is just a warning. It’s not a ticket. You don’t have to do anything with this, but there’s a message on the bottom of the ticket for you,’” Hemeon recalled.
Sergeant Steven Church then walked away, leaving her speechless.
Church’s handwritten note on the warning read, “Thanks for all that you do. You could have spent Sunday alone but, you’re spending it helping your parents and daughter. Have a good day.”