OLIVE BRANCH, MS -
(WMC-TV) – A traffic stop at a Mid-South intersection is drawing both praise
and questions.
Getting pulled over is
never pleasant for motorists. Your heart races and you wonder how it will all
end. But for one Olive Branch woman and her two young daughters it was a
complete surprise.
"It was the first
time getting pulled over," Stephen Rogers said of his wife. "She was a little
nervous and she had my daughters in the car."
Rogers' wife Andrea was
pulled over at a four-way stop in Olive Branch at Craft near Goodman Road
Friday afternoon.
Rogers said the officer
had his blue lights on and asked some odd questions.
"He asked her ‘hey,'
you know, ‘do you have a family? How many people in your family?'"
Then he revealed the
reason for odd questions.
"He said, ‘great, I
want to give you four movie tickets because you were all buckled up.'"
She also stopped at the
stop sign. Rogers' wife found out the person who stopped her was DeSoto County
Constable Chris Plumlee. Constables are elected and usually serve warrants and
subpoenas.
Stephen Rogers posted the
encounter on Facebook.
"It was something
nice to do," he said. "You don't hear nice stories often."
A lot of people expressed
negative comments. And some people we talked with agreed.
"I just don't think
it's the thing to do me as a woman," neighbor Sandy Huffman said. "I would be
scared if he pulled me over and I know when I'm doing something wrong."
But some folks thought it
is a good idea.
"I think it's
awesome. Why, somebody stopping you, giving you four tickets, I think it's
awesome," one driver said.
"Personally at first
I would think I was doing something wrong however when he explained, I probably
wouldn't mind so much," Kevin Pieckiel said.
Action News 5 was unable
to contact Constable Plumlee for a comment.
The Rogers family has not yet used the movie tickets but plan to at some
point.
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