Editor:
I really don’t enjoy being stopped and asked where I am going by an unidentified person such as I encountered at the Cape Porpoise pier parking area on the evening of June 21.
This person admittedly was not a police officer, was dressed in shorts, sneakers, T-shirt, unshaven, had on a traffic vest as worn by crossing guards and had no identification at all.
We exchanged some ugly statements.
I drove on and parked by the bait shed. Sgt. Simm of the Kennebunkport Police Department drove up, came to me asking questions. I was getting angina pains, took some nitro and asked what I had done.
I repeated my request to know what I may have done and to leave me alone. The officer asked if I wanted an ambulance and I again said to leave me alone or charge me with a summons or arrest me. This was not getting any better. He offered an explanation about why I was stopped.
It seems a quarrel over parking spaces has prompted the town manager to put someone down there to try to maintain fairness of parking. I could care less about the parking. If I can’t park I would go home as I reside about a half-mile from that location.
Finally after my medication stopped the chest pains the officer drove away, I referred to the police cruiser as my cruiser and he had a smirk on his face each time he did that I said it was my cruiser and I help pay for it.
The next morning friends of mine who heard my name on their scanners inquired about it as my name was broadcast. I didn’t care about that either.
I am a life-long resident of this town and known for my activity at town meetings. I worked for this town before these police officers were babies.
I worked for this town when Cliff Maling was road commissioner and had a used car lot on School Street. I’m getting along in years now and this interrogation was bad, I am not a sir either.
George Alden Harriman
Kennebunkport