The Mystery of The Speeding Moustache

I'm a little late to this particular party- kudos to The Quiet Man not to mention the rest of the state were being all over it last week but now that somebody's been fired and The Moustache felt the need to call a press conference about it, I feel like it's worth digging in to.

So what's all the hubub about?

Well, The Moustache and His Chief Henchwoman were clocked doing about 84 MPH on Highway 20.  A DCI Agent who happened to be in the area noticed this and called it into the State Troopers to get the vehicle stopped.  The State Troopers caught up with the vehicle and ran the plate.  The plate came back not on file.   They stopped the vehicle and were probably somewhat surprised to discover a State Trooper behind the wheel ('License and registra- oh, it's you.') and The Moustache and His Chief Henchwoman along for the ride.

The DCI Agent who called this in naturally filed a complaint along the lines of 'WTF does The Moustache need to travel so damn fast?' and five days later he was fired.

There's something fishy about this whole damn thing.  Not the stop...  there are tons of law enforcement and state vehicles that have dummy plates that, if run by someone, don't return with any information- they just say not on file.  I haven't heard it happen all that often but now and again, I'll hear someone pull a traffic stop on what turns out to be an unmarked at work.  ('License and registra- oh, my bad.')

Firing the DCI agent for essentially wondering just what the hell was going on seems pretty damn fishy.  The fact that The Moustache called a press conference in which he called the fired agent to permit the release of his 500 page disciplinary file.  (My favorite quote:  'I would love to tell you everything, but the lawyers tell me I can't.'  Fucking lawyers, how dare you DEFY THE MOUSTACHE.)  He also wants the number of not-on-file/dummy plates reduced and has said that the State Troopers will be told to follow the speed limit if not on emergency business.

But here's the thing- we're not really going to know unless that file gets released.  Could be that the Department of Public Safety had a perfectly valid reason to fire the DCI Agent in question but the timing is abysmal which is probably why The Moustache called the press conference in the first place just to try and convince peeps that this wasn't because the DCI Agent started asking questions in the first place.  (Not sure people are buying it, to be honest.)

I think The Moustache does make a good point though.  It'd be helpful to have some of these dummy plates entered into the system so that, if they're run, people at least know that they're affiliated with a government agency of some kind.   They could even all come back to 'State of Iowa' if people have concerns about it.  This whole situation could have potentially been avoided had someone been able to get information indicating that very important people on very important business were inside

I do like how The Moustache stated that State Troopers would be told to follow the speed limit unless on emergency business.   One hopes that will also apply to the State Trooper that drives him around the place.