Public Safety
A certain division (or divisions) of our Virgin Islands Police Department is (are) called “Public Safety”.
The place that you go to register your vehicle is called, “Public Safety”, and I guess the traffic division is included in this area.
Funny stories: a couple of weeks ago, Michael and I were heading to the hardware store to get the last of the pavers for the front yard project. We were on our way up the winding, curving south side of Lowry Hill Road in the orange rover, when a police car came up behind us.
As we rounded an uphill curve in this 50 year-old vehicle, the officers decided to flash their lights and siren us to pull over. The guys came out of their car and approached the drivers side (the middle of the road side) on this winding curving hill to tell Michael that there was dark smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe of the vehicle and that they could hardly see and were choking on it and it was quite dangerous for us to be driving this vehicle in public.
Michael explained to them that he was working on adjusting the timing so the smoke would not be so overwhelming and they agreed that that was what he needed to do.
Michael, in his infinite wisdom, did not explain to them what a dangerous situation they had put themselves and other users of this road in by stopping him at that particular spot on the dangerous curves on Lowry Hill. Good Boy, Michael!
Other “Public Safety” funny story: I was driving to the grocery store at 2:40pm on Tuesday afternoon, heading east, when I saw a police car coming up behind me. The driver was wearing a white tee shirt and decided to take a right turn across traffic with out signaling. He came up on the right side of me to do it. The license number was PD 367 and the license plate said, “Official Use Only” on it.
He didn’t look very official in his tee shirt using no indicator.