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Veteran Expediter
WYOMING STATE POLICE
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 , 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. Seeing the flashing 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 the car 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 thinking the officer was actually keeping up with him.
This went on for about 30 seconds until the patrolman yelled
at the man ordering him to "pull over!"
The man obeyed, turned his steering 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 , 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. Seeing the flashing 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 the car 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 thinking the officer was actually keeping up with him.
This went on for about 30 seconds until the patrolman yelled
at the man ordering him to "pull over!"
The man obeyed, turned his steering 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?
