NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Mayor Adam Barringer has received yet another traffic offense-related warning from the New Smyrna Beach police force, this time for speeding.
Barringer was stopped 11:40 p.m. Sunday at South Atlantic and 12th avenues and given a warning for unlawful speed. He was clocked at 48 in a 40 mph zone.
No mention of the incident was made by Barringer or other municipal officials during Tuesday night's city commission meeting.
Barringer, 46, avoided media at the meeting and has not returned calls or e-mails for comment. Barringer's last interaction with a police officer outside of city government was his confrontation with police officer Ralph Hunnefeld just before the New Smyrna Beach Christmas Parade.
Hunnefeld, then a rookie, waved off the mayor when he tried to cut through a barricaded street on the beachside to park his "Barringer Construction" pick-up truck instead of parking at City Hall on Sams Avenue like the rest of his elected colleagues appearing in the parade.
Hunnefeld told his superiors that Barringer got out of his vehicle, reached out to shake hands as if being conciliatory and told him, "Thanks for beng a pr-ck." He then got back into his truck and left.
Hunnefeld had cut him a break for running a stop sign six months earlier with a warning instead of giving him a ticket based on prior traffic-related offenses.
Barringer was called out in the media by Teamsters 385 Business Agent Bob Walker for his ill treatment of Hunnefeld, a decorated combat veteran of the war in Iraq.