It wasn't me- I was home watching a Jerry Springer re-run!
Smokey
'50 3600 5-window
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From: Tim Lloyd <lloydt@Colorado.EDU>
To: Ole Truckers <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 9:13 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] curious oletruck story
>I never thought my ole truck would get me in trouble (well, I occasionally
>worry about not having a front license plate)...
>As I was driving home to Boulder from Loveland (a bit north of Boulder)
>along I-25 at about three in the morning the other night, I was pulled
>over by two police Jeeps. One of the policemen asked me where I had been,
>got my licence, etc., then told me that someone driving a 1950's-style
>pickup had been involved in an assault at a truck stop near where he had
>seen me get on the highway. I told him I had just come from a friend's
>house in Loveland, and gave him the phone number there, which they
>apparently went to call. The policeman then came back, made sure I didn't
>have any yellow sunglasses (apparently the person they were looking for
>had yellow sunglasses), and let me go. Then, about three minutes later,
>another policeman pulled me over, telling me that my registration didn't
>check out. He checked it again, made sure the truck was mine, and let me
>on my way.
>I'm boggled by the odds of two AD pickups driving around near Loveland at
>three in the morning on a weeknight, and by the odds that someone owning
>an ole truck would be the kind of person to commit an assault. Well, if
>it did happen, I hope the guy loses his truck, and that it ends up in the
>hands of someone a bit nicer.
>
>Tim Lloyd, omaha@tmbg.org
>"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and
>multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." -Thomas Jefferson
>"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim
>above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." -Thoreau
>"...failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human
>nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of
>life itself." -Robert Zubrin
>
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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