I'm siding with the trooper on this one.

According to the LA Times' article Who You Calling 'Hon'? the traditional greeting in Baltimore is to call people "Hon," which sparked this law enforcement incident.

It is now at issue in a lawsuit filed against the Maryland State Police by a suburban Baltimore computer systems analyst who claims that a female state trooper went ballistic, arresting and mistreating him, after he called her "Hon" during an August 1999 traffic stop. When word of the lawsuit surfaced this summer, the "hon" case became a sensation on television news and radio talk shows.

I might consider going "ballistic" next time a bank clerk or phone marketer calls me by my first name.