(upbeat music)
Mr. Chandler you wanna go to the microphone please?
Good morning sir.
Good morning your honor.
Mr. Chandler you have one school zone violation
and seven parking tickets.
Are you aware of that?
Yes, your honor, I have the printout.
You drive (mumbles)?
They're all at work, they're all an Angel street.
And-
What do you do?
I teach.
At the university up there?
Yeah, and so sometimes after class I'm going,
the students are talking to me
and they have an interesting idea when I'm talking about it.
And then when I get there,
there's an orange ticket on the car.
An orange welcoming, right?
Message, welcome, you're hereby invited to appear
before the Providence (mumbles) court.
Take all your money, all your cheques.
What do you teach, sir?
I teach a fiction writing and poetry
in the master's program at Brown.
Oh, okay.
I have a grandson who's a senior at Brown this year.
Most of what he tells me, I think it's fiction.
(Chandler laughs)
So I'm not sure whether he's taking your course.
Well, our students are full of ideas
and the faculty they are very engaged with students.
And so these kinds of conversations after class
are a vital way of bonding and learning,
but they often result in tickets.
They do-
Unfortunately.
Well, my grandson actually graduated.
But he plays on the baseball team.
So he tells me he's majoring in finance,
I think he's majoring in baseball.
Do you play baseball your honor?
Oh, well not now but I did play baseball.
I wasn't caliber for New York Yankees,
let me put it that way, I ended up here.
My sport was actually wrestling.
I was, can you see me wrestling?
Yes.
You can?
Yeah.
When the member of the SWAT team says
he can see your wrestling, that's a very big compliment.
I went to an inner city school all my life.
I went to the public schools
and I went to Central High School when I was a kid.
So, and the budget for wrestling was almost zero.
And in my senior year,
our coach had retired and they needed the wrestling coach.
And so they gave the job of the wrestling coach
to the chemistry teacher
who I'd never seen a wrestling match
and so we coached ourselves.
And back in those days,
we'd wrestled the fancy private schools
and the other public schools
and all teams we wrestled they all had headgear.
They had knee pads, they had elbow pads, had all equipment.
We had none of that but we won the State Championship.
And four of us were State champions individually
and the team won the State championship.
Did you know that Inspector Carragher?
I do, your honor, yes.
'Cause I've told it before.
And also what happened recently, too.
What happened recently inspector Carragher?
The wrestling hall of fame your honor,
you've inducted to.
It's quite an accomplishment.
Well I don't wanna brag, but anyway, but I am, I guess.
But let's see what we can do for you.
These are all up around the school?
Oh, they're all up around the school
and then I was driving on Olive street and I didn't,
I was about to turn to go down Brown street
and then I decided to go up to Hope
and so I was a few miles over
because it is about to avoid the high school.
I dismissed 31 miles an hour, you've 32.
So I'm gonna take that into consideration.
Thank you very much your honor.
Alright, but I'm going to charge you $50
for two parking tickets.
Be careful up there.
I will, your honor, thank you so much.
I hope none of the stuff you're telling me is fiction.
(Chandler laughs)
No, no, it's not.
Anyway, good luck to you, keep up your good work.
Thank you very much.
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