LOL! Mine's maybe not so happy but probably just as funny.
Not driving my TR (race-prepped Spitfire, actually) but towing it. Had been
to an autocross in Dodge City five hours away from my mid-Kansas home in
Salina. Just as I turn off the highway onto the road into town, the lights
go on in my mirror and Trooper Henry Perez pulls me over for ~65 in the 55.
We were acquainted and friendly, and Kansas HiPo troopers take classes in
friendly anyway, so it was not too traumatic. "What's your hurry?" he asks
and I replied no real rush, just been driving for five hours and was eager
to get home. He comments about the horse being able to smell the barn, and
we stood there and chatted about this and that for maybe 20 minutes, and he
let me go -- but says, "Don't let me catch you speeding again."
Flash forward four years. Henry has been transferred several counties east
and is now Patrolling I-70 in Waubaunsee county. I'm headin' home from
Topeka or Kansas City doing, oh, ~65 again on I-70 (still in the 55 era) and
here's the lights behind me, then passing me and settling in behind the car
a ways in front of me. I slow but proceed past when the trooper pulls out
and flags me too! He got both of us! It's Henry. He has me wait while he
tickets the other car, then comes to my window and says, "Remember what I
said last time I stopped you?" Four years later and four counties away and
the SOB remembers! And with a big grin on his face to boot! So I got the
ticket -- but at least it was for 64 mph which in Kansas is a "non-moving
violation." And yeah, we sat in his car for about 20 minutes chatting about
this and that again while he ran his radar. Henry was a good guy just doing
his job. I hopped out when his radar lit up some idiot -- well over 65 --
who never picked up on a marked patrol car on the shoulder with his lights
going!
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: <Rikrock@aol.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: Pennsylvania Highway Patrol
> Bon Amici,
>
> About 20 years ago, driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Harrisburg,
I
> got pulled over for speeding by a PA State Trooper. I was going around
10mph
> over the limit. The guy asks for my license and registration, takes it
back
> to his car. Several minutes go by before he returns and says, "follow me
to
> the next exit, pull over behind me when I stop".
>
> So, we're driving to the exit a few miles away, the trooper still has my
> license and registration, and I don't have any idea what the heck is going
on. I
> pull over behind him, he walks back to me and says "just stay in your
car".
>
> He goes back to his car, I can see him talking on the radio for a couple
> minutes. Those were very long minutes.
>
> Finally he walks back to me and says "This is your lucky day. I don't
have
> any more blank tickets in my book so I'm letting you go. You better hope
I
> don't catch you again".
>
> So far, so good.
>
> Rich Rock
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