Taylor started the car, left it idling on his driveway with the keys in the ignition and the engine running, went back inside of his home for a few minutes and when he returned outside Taylor was shocked to find a ticket on his windshield. The $128.00 ticket was written and left on the windshield by Officer K. Keary of the Roseville Police Department, and it was for Taylor’s leaving the keys in the ignition with the motor running.
A a very pissed off Taylor took to social media to vent his frustration, stating: “Let’s all take a moment to thank officer dipsh*t K. Keary for wasting the taxpayer’s money and giving me a ticket for warming up my car in my own damn driveway.”
Taylor would later explain his frustration to local TV station ABC 7 stating that “I thought it was some kind of joke at first, and then I was thrown back by it. I was furious when I saw it. Every person warms up their car. We live in Michigan! I was in and out in probably about 7-8 minutes, so in that amount of time he ran up here, gave me a ticket and by the time I got out he was nowhere to be seen.” Taylor maintains that Officer Keary should have knocked on his door and said something rather than silently issuing him a ticket and leaving.
Not surprisingly, the cops have another take on the matter. Per Roseville Police Chief James Berlin: “It’s common sense. We can’t warn everybody of the law there is. Common sense says you don’t leave your car running unattended. We have five to ten cars stolen this way every winter. It’s dangerous, and of course it drives everyone’s insurance rates up. It drives our crime rates up.”
In further response to Taylor Chief Berlin added that police will not apologize and that he is “furious” about Taylor‘s Facebook post, stating: “You see the disparaging comments he made about my officer? Drop dead.”
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