Re: Real world speeding cop-out
CobraBoy (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:20:34 -0700
At 01:38 PM 8/29/96 -0400, Jim Whitehead wrote:
>Hi, I'm a friend of Rohit's, currently hanging out at the W3C for a few
>weeks (why not?). When I'm not asking Rohit dumb questions about PEP and
>NG, I'm a grad. student in comp. sci. at UC Irvine.
>
>The top 16 list reminded me about this. Apparently a true story, but it
>sounds too good to be true. It *did* supposedly happen in California,
>though...
>
>- Jim
>
>A friend of a friend was speeding, and had gotten enough tickets before
>that if she got another, she'd lose her license. Of course, she got pulled
>over, and was frantically trying to figure out how to talk her way out of
>the ticket. When the cop came up to the car she rolled down the window and
>said, "Officer, you didn't pull me over because you wanted to ask me to the
>policemen's ball, did you?" The cop replied, "State cops don't have
>balls." Then there was this pause, pause, and then without saying
>anything, the cop turned around and walked back to his car and drove
>away.
Well my great adventure was more involved than that, but basicly when
spotted doing 140 mph on the 101 frwy., I have Ford Motor Company Special
Vehicle Team's 17" disc brakes and ABS to thank for allowing me to get off
the frwy and ditch the cop.
Tim
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