Oklahoma State Trooper

[Flatiron]

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 3:00 AM one very cold morning, Trooper Allan Nixon (Oklahoma Highway Patrol) responded to a call about a car that was off the shoulder of the road outside Shattuck, Oklahoma(western part of the state). He located the car which was badly stuck in deep snow 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 behind the wheel with a nearly 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 panicked. He jerked the gearshift into 'Drive' and hit the gas pedal. The car's speedometer was showing 20, 30, 40 and then 50 mph, but it as still stuck in the snow, wheels spinning. Here's where it gets good. Trooper Nixon, having a sense of humor, began running in place next to the speeding, but still stationary car. The driver was totally freaked out, thinking the trooper was actually keeping up with him. This went on for about 30 seconds; then, the trooper yelled at the man to "Pull over!"

The man obeyed, turned his wheel and cut off 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 state troopers don't have a sense of humor?

[Bubba Bob]

LOL

That's pretty good.

[martymas]

that was a quick thinking trooper

marty

[handplane]

Should be enough for one to give up drinking.

[deaf_girl]

Here in Texas, they would just shoot you.