When a cop catches someone speeding on Halloween, there are several possible — and suspicious — reasons for the infraction that come to mind.
Generally those reasons don’t involve diapers, but Jeanette Porter of Washington County, New York, was on a diaper run on Halloween when she saw the dreaded red and blue lights.
“Well, I was speeding, I deserved the ticket,” she said, according to WTEN-TV. “You know, ‘It is what it is,’ I totally understand.”
But when K9 Handler Deputy Dale Quesnel walked up to her window and began chatting with her, her story was … unusual.
“I encountered her speeding,” he said. “I pulled her over and talked with her for a minute to see why she was speeding.”
“I asked her where she was heading to. She told me she was getting diapers for her twin nieces.”
Not even for her own child, but for her nieces. She knew a local food bank was giving them away and was hurrying to get there before they were all gone.
Seeing the predicament she was in, Quesnel decided not to give her a ticket — one that she knew she deserved — but decided to give her something else.
“I just got to thinking she didn’t seem like she could afford a traffic ticket, so I didn’t think she could afford diapers either,” he explained.
So he asked her to go to the store with him.
