Who Says Troopers Have No Sense Of Humor?
This one was relayed to me by Jerry Martin:
I don’t know how much truth there is in this story, but it makes for a good tale…
In most of the United States, there is a policy for checking on a stalled vehicle on the highway when the temperatures drop to the single digits or below. About 3:00 AM, on a very cold morning, Trooper Allan Nixon (#658) responded to a call where there was a car off the shoulder of the road just outside of Shaddock, Oklahoma. He located the car stuck in the deep snow, and the engine was 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 behind the wheel with a nearly empty bottle of vodka on the seat beside him.
The driver came awake when the Trooper tapped on the window. Seeing the rotating lights in his rear-view mirror, and the State Trooper standing next to his car, the man panicked. He 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.
Trooper Nixon, having a sense of humor, began running in place next to the car, which was still stationary. The driver was totally freaked out, thinking that the Trooper was actually keeping up with him. This goes on for about 30 seconds and the Trooper yells “Pull over!”
The man nodded, turned his wheel, and stopped the engine.
Needless to say, the man from Dumas, Texas was arrested, and is probably still shaking his head over the State Trooper in Oklahoma who could run 50 miles per hour.
Who says Troopers have no sense of humor?
No real relevance to the current weather (besides the cold temperatures and the upcoming Super Bowl parties…), but it sure is darn funny.
