Officer Dishes Out Ice Cream, Not Tickets, on Traffic Stops

Instead of traffic tickets, one Georgia police officer dished out something much sweeter to the people he pulled over — ice cream.

When Officer Ed Smith of the Warner Robins Police Department stopped people for driving infractions last week, he gave them all a Dairy Queen Blizzard and let them go with a warning.

"Most of them were in complete disbelief," Smith told TODAY.com. "One girl's face, it was worth a thousand words. She thought she was in a lot of trouble."

She could have been — Smith said he only pulled over people who were actually doing something wrong, per federal law.

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