Capt Kirk gets off a speeding ticket

May 11, 2008 at 12:14 PM
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Just as I finished writing about Philip Glenister getting his driver off a ticket by acting as Gene Hunt, I surfed over to an article about Canadian actor William Shatner linked from the Daily Mail page I cited earlier:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=565380&in_page_id=1879

In the 1960s, Shatner wore his Capt Kirk uniform rushing to work and was also stopped. He writes:

I got out of my car, dressed in my uniform. The police officer looked me up and down, frowned and asked: “So where are you going so fast at this time in the morning?”
I told him the truth: “To my spaceship.”
He sighed. “OK, go ahead,” he said, before adding the Vulcan blessing: “Live long and prosper.”

Nothing new under the sun.
The story is quite good, told in the first person. Shatner recounts his lows and the death of his third wife (after what seems to be the final paragraph talking about the price of his autobiography).

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Back in the 60's,this was one of the most popular shows on

television.I would more believe this than the so-called "police"

in berkely allowing code pink to blatantly disturb the peace,

or in edinboro,PA allowing protesters to spit on a Veteran.

Back in the 60's,a Cop could go on His own judgement as to

whether He should run somebody in or not,nowadays,with the ACLU

and every other leftist bleeding-heart lawyer literally picking their

noses for them,nobody gets a break no more.

Unless,of course,You happen to be a code pinko anti-American protester.

You notice that such organizations do not exist in countries like,

say,China,or Russia,for very long.

Jack Yan replied to Blockhead’s comment:
May 11, 2008
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I worry about the pressures cops, nurses and teachers have nowadays that take them away from serving the public. All these extra considerations—ultimately getting in the way of a decent society. Which is what people like Code Pink want.

Sterling Moss was stopped for speeding. The police officer asks him: “Who do you think you are? Sterling Moss?

Shatner. I rather like the guy, he is pretty self-absorbed, but he is also self-deprecating and to me that is an endearing quality. I have read a few of his auto-biographical stuff - mostly pertaining to the star-trek series and they are well written, hysterically funny and informational. I have a quote of his as a signature to my emails. Goes something like " If there was something I didn't know about, I would know about it" to me that just sums Shatner up so well.

Zak: I love it! Pam: I do like Shatner now. The story does indicate that he was a bit of a difficult person in his younger days but the way he carries on now, I find his personality in TV interviews really likeable. Stan Fields and Denny Crane are far less arrogant than Capt Kirk!

Capt Kirk gets off a speeding ticket

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