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FLORIDA, OF COURSE — Here are a couple of things that really aren't fun: speeding tickets and phone scams. I have been the recipient of both and I'd rather not be again. A woman in Florida was about to experience both in the same day, but the same cop who pulled her over for speeding got her out of a phone scam.
Highlands County, Florida sheriff’s deputy John Garrison pulled a woman over for speeding and caught everything that followed on camera. When he approached her door, he went through the routine of asking for license and registration and then he realized she was on the phone. He asked where she was headed, and she explained she was on the phone with Amazon and going to Walgreen's to pick up a $200 gift card that "Amazon" needed from her.
Let's not poke fun at the fact we think this woman should have recognized this as a scam, because many of us have fallen for a lot less. Often times our minds aren't thinking straight when we're nervous and money is involved.
Deputy Garrison asks to speak with the man on the phone and quickly calls him out as a scammer. The man on the phone gets defensive and hangs up. The woman is grateful for the assistance and then Garrison takes the good guy act one step further and decides not to give her a ticket.
So, what was about to be a really bad and really expensive day turned into a good one with quite a story to go with it for this woman.