Post by kc9gld on Feb 16, 2007 1:51:51 GMT
WYOMING STATE POLICE - GOTTA LOVE 'EM
In most of the northern states, there is a policy of checking on any stalled
vehicle on the highway when the temperatures drop down to the single digits
or below.
About 3 a.m. one very cold morning in March 2004, a state police officer
responded to a call: there was a car off the shoulder of the road on the
outskirts of Casper. He located the car, stuck in deep snow and with the
engine still running. Pulling in behind the car with his emergency lights
on, the officer walked to the driver's door to find an older man passed out
behind the wheel with a nearly empty vodka bottle on the seat beside him.
The driver came awake when the officer tapped on the window.
See! ing the rotating lights in his rear view mirror and the state policeman
standing next to his car, the man panicked, jerked the gearshift into
"drive" and hit the gas. The car's speedometer was showing 20-30-40 and then
50 mph, but it was still stuck in the snow, wheels spinning. The policeman,
having a sense of humor, began running in place next to the speeding, but
still stationary, car. The driver was totally freaked out thinking the
officer was actually keeping up with him. This goes on for about 30 seconds
when the patrolman yelled at the man ordering him to "pull over!" The man
obeyed, turned his wheel and stopped the engine. Needless to say, the man
from Casper was arrested and is probably still shaking his head over the
state patrolman who could run 50 miles per hour. Who says policemen don't
have a sense of humor?
In most of the northern states, there is a policy of checking on any stalled
vehicle on the highway when the temperatures drop down to the single digits
or below.
About 3 a.m. one very cold morning in March 2004, a state police officer
responded to a call: there was a car off the shoulder of the road on the
outskirts of Casper. He located the car, stuck in deep snow and with the
engine still running. Pulling in behind the car with his emergency lights
on, the officer walked to the driver's door to find an older man passed out
behind the wheel with a nearly empty vodka bottle on the seat beside him.
The driver came awake when the officer tapped on the window.
See! ing the rotating lights in his rear view mirror and the state policeman
standing next to his car, the man panicked, jerked the gearshift into
"drive" and hit the gas. The car's speedometer was showing 20-30-40 and then
50 mph, but it was still stuck in the snow, wheels spinning. The policeman,
having a sense of humor, began running in place next to the speeding, but
still stationary, car. The driver was totally freaked out thinking the
officer was actually keeping up with him. This goes on for about 30 seconds
when the patrolman yelled at the man ordering him to "pull over!" The man
obeyed, turned his wheel and stopped the engine. Needless to say, the man
from Casper was arrested and is probably still shaking his head over the
state patrolman who could run 50 miles per hour. Who says policemen don't
have a sense of humor?
LOL
