WBT, I think your examples are excellent of people doing really stupid, costly, and dangerous stuff such as the meth heads who got stuck on a ledge and launched a huge search and rescue mission.
Back to Reno's story, a wife sitting on her husband's lap for a 5 minute shuttle ride back to the trailhead in a state park is more like going 16 mph in a 15 zone. It's petty.
If a cop wants to write a petty citation like that, oh well, but then to compound it with disturbing threats that ruin a groups camping trip, that's really unprofessional. Some of us have higher expectations for our cops than that.
