How busy is the Orange PD? Today we got off the 55 fwy exit at Katella, and usually there is a guy standing there selling flowers. He was there again today but he had company, a police officer. I back the badge, but really. I can guess he does not have a license to sell flowers, but are the cops so bored there is nothing else to do?
What harm could this guy be causing? He isn't even begging. At least he is selling something to make money. Or was trying to anyway, before he got hassled.
There are no bad guys out there? No one running a stop sign? Making a famous California stop? No drunk drivers? No fights? No nothing, that he has to tell the hard working (he is out there until nighttime, until his flowers are gone) guy on the fwy ramp. There is a guy who sells flowers down Katella/Santiago Canyon and I bet no one is bothering him (he is white).
I just would like to say that I think the Orange Police Department could find better use of their time. Something other then bothering a man who is trying to make a buck by doing little other then glancing at drivers as they exit the fwy. God forbid someone might like to take some fresh flowers home.
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Perhaps he was simply trying to save the guys life by informing him that the location he chose is very unsafe. Perhaps he was assisting him, had he made a call for help to someone else, something he personally witnessed?
Perhaps he was assisting him. Perhaps he was simply buying his own wife some flowers. Hmmm.
In actuality, that particular offramp median is HUGE. The guy could move a couch there, set up a little table, and safely sell flowers without being in danger of getting hit.
Now a motorcycle cop taking flowers home for his wife...that would be a brilliant picture!
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