I won't be able to post much over the next few weeks as we plunge headlong into the moving process. However, when I read this story, I just about fell off my seat laughing and had to share. Enjoy!
INDIANA - STATE POLICE
In most of the United States, there is a policy of checking on any stalled vehicle on the highway when the temperatures drop down to single digits or below.
About 3 AM, one very cold morning, a Trooper responded to a call there was a car off the shoulder of the road southeast of Michigan City. 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 Trooper walked to the driver's door to find an older man passed out drunk behind the wheel with an empty vodka bottle on the seat beside him.
The driver came awake when the Trooper tapped on the window. Seeing the rotating lights in his rearview mirror, and the State Trooper standing next to his car, the man totally panicked.
He jerked the gearshift in to '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.
Trooper Nixon, having a sense of humor, began running in place next to the speeding, but still stationary car. The driver was totally freaked, thinking the Trooper was actually keeping up with him. This goes on for about 30 seconds, then the Trooper yelled at the man to 'Pull over NOW!'
The man obeyed, turned his wheel and stopped the engine.
Needless to say, the man from LaPorte was arrested, and is probably still shaking his head over the State Trooper in Indiana who could run 50 miles per hour. Who says State Troopers don't have a sense of humor??
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that's funny--and he could have just said that he'd been drinking the vokda to stay warm! May all go well on your move--it's cold up here in MI now so keep some winter things out.
Please don't judge all Hoosiers by this individual driver ;)
In this cold, may you be warmed by love!
hehe, I pray that your move goes well!
OK, TL, my son and I are still laughing......good one.
Thanks everyone! I'll be stopping in to check blogs as often as I can so don't give up on me... :o)
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
The above link lists this as a rumor on the internet as early as 2004, possibly around as a rumor since the late 70's.
I have an email copy of this same exact story with the heading, "Montana State Trooper." It is a photocopy of a newspaper article. There is no date and no newspaper name, however, I found the link below, which is a police forum, listing the same exact article.
Police Forums & Law Enforcement Forums @ Officer.com
About 3 AM, one very cold morning, Trooper Allan Nixon #658 responded to a call ... Seeing the rotating lights in his rearview mirror, and the State Trooper ...
forums.officer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60220
One variation of this same article on the internet stating that it occurred in Shattuck, OK, east of the TX panhandle, with the driver being from Dumas, TX, in the north part of the TX panhandle.
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