Artist Rod MacIver ranted and raved at a Shelburne cop when he was pulled over last December for running a red light.
"I think you're completely out to lunch," he told Officer Jason Lawton. "What are you doing, smoking pot or something?"
Lawton ticketed MacIver, but after the artist reviewed a cruiser cam video of the traffic stop, it became clear his truck passed through the Shelburne Road intersection under a yellow light.
A judge dismissed the ticket. But MacIver wasn't about to let bygones be bygones. He posted the video online, created a web site to shame the Shelburne PD and is taking the town to small claims court.
Reporter Charles Eichacker covered MacIver's case in a web-only story for sevendaysvt.com. Click here to read it.
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