After noticing a illegally parked police car, a Portland, Oregon lawyer made use of a state law provision that allows private citizens to issue parking tickets.
"An Oregon man issued a series of parking citations to a uniformed police officer who parked his patrol car next to a "No Parking" sign while he went to buy food at a Chinese restaurant last month in Portland.
Eric Bryant says he approached Officer Chad Stensgaard, but the cop dismissed his concerns about the illegal parking spot.
"If he had acknowledged and corrected his error, we could have avoided this whole thing," Bryant tells the Portland Mercury. "But instead, he kept watching basketball and told me he wasn't doing anything wrong."
The paper says Bryant, a newly minted lawyer, used a section of state law that allows private citizens to issue citations. He filed a complaint that accuses Stensgaard of illegal parking, illegal stopping, ignoring parking restrictions and illegal operation of an emergency vehicle.
The Associated Press says the officer was summoned to appear in traffic court next month. If he's convicted, Stensgaard faces more than $500 in fines."
FULL STORY: Private citizen issues parking tickets to Oregon cop
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