-OT- Subject: Super Trooper

Oklahoma State Trooper ....

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 AM, one very cold morning, Trooper Allan Nixon #658 responded to a call there was a car off the shoulder of the road outside Shattuck . 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 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. 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 speeding, but still stationary car. The driver was totally freaked, thinking the Trooper was actually keeping up with him. This goes on for about 30 seconds, then the Trooper yelled, "Pull over!"

The man obeyed, 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 Trooper's don't have a sense of humor?

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Dwain G.
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Similar story in Coos County, Oregon. My buddy Sgt. Mike Cook (now retired sheriff) came up behind a car that was high centered in a ditch. The guy was still driving the car, the wheels in the muddy ditch spinning away, the other side up in the air. He pulled up behind the car, turned on the lights, and the car "sped up". Mike walked up to the window and the driver couldn't believe it! Mike told him to turn it off and get out. Alcohol and foggy road conditions don't mix.

Dan

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Dan Kay

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