isiting Policeman

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

The chief of the Lilliland Police Department asked and received permission to invite an exchange policeman from America to spend some time in Lilliland in an official capacity. Baron Von Lodge, in consultation with Professor Hamblin, his chief advisor, thought the idea may have some merit and decided to give it a try.

The visiting police officer was an American from South Florida. His name was Officer Willis Jones. His credentials confirmed that he was very qualified on paper.

Upon Officer Jones’ arrival, he was introduced to the Lilliland Police Department and given an assignment comparable to his duties in South Florida. He was in charge of parking and traffic. He was given a book of traffic tickets and told to issue them to anyone who was not parked properly. This applied to cars, and horses and carriages, as well as sleighs.

After a few days of training with another Lilliland police officer, he felt that he could handle the duties on his own.

One of the first parking tickets that Officer Willis Jones issued was to be placed on a horse that was left unattended for some time in an improper area.

It turned out, much to Officer Jones’ surprise, the ticket he issued was to a wooden horse, not parked, but positioned as a statue representing the Lilliland humane society and art museum society.

When the Baron heard about the ticket from the directors of both the humane society and the art museum society, the Baron quickly consulted with Professor Hamblin asking what he should do. Professor Hamblin said that putting a traffic ticket on a wooden horse was the funniest thing that he ever heard. Office Jones was quickly reassigned to the horse stable security and clean up detail for the balance of his visit. He returned to South Florida and the visiting police officers program was discontinued.

The word around Lilliland Castle was that maybe the police in South Florida had not yet mastered the parking lot situation.