re: Tharold Simon explains his version of events leading to arrest

Not really hard to believe that a Eunice detective was acting like an a-hole. And a fricking detective to move a car from the wrong side if the street?

I moved back down to NOLA last year and a few weeks after, my wife and I were coming home around midnight from a wedding. There's an intersection in the Bywater that all my life was a "no left turn except buses". Well, I get to the red light and see that the sign no longer exists so I think it's ok to turn left. Not even 3 seconds later I have an unmarked car behind me with his lights on. I pull over and this douche bag comes walking up to the car with his hand on his holster. We have no tint on the windows so he could see 2 dressed up people in the car. Anyway, this a-hole goes on a 15 minute rant about how much of a danger to the roadway I was and how they should just take my license away. I tell him I didn't see a no left turn sign and he turn and points to it. The sign was bent and facing the wrong direction. I point that out to him and he then asks if I work for DOTD. I tell him no and he snips back, what did you just say? I tell him again that I do not work for DOTD and that maybe that sign needs to be fixed because its not very clear. It wasn't until then that he asked me for my license. He took his time running it and when he gets back to the car he tells me that I need pay better attention to the street signs and I told him I always do and asked him if he agreed the sign was turned in the wrong direction. He then goes on about how that sign has been there for over 50 years blah, blah, blah. So about 45 minutes spent from an unmarked officer in NOLA @ midnight on a Saturday night over a bent street sign. I'm sure the streets were safer that night due to officer friendly's due diligence.