Police with a sense of humor

In most northern states, there is a policy of checking on any stalled vehicle on the highway when the temperatures drop into the single digits or below.

One morning in March 2004 about 3 a.m. a Wyoming state police officer responded to a call of a car, off the shoulder, outside the city of Casper.

The officer located the car, with the engine still running, stuck in the deep snow along side the highway. Pulling in behind it with his emergency lights on, the officer walked to the driver's side door to find an older man passed out behind the wheel and a near empty bottle of vodka in the seat beside him.

The officer tapped on the window waking up the driver. Seeing the rotating lights in his rear view mirror and the state policeman 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. Then hit 50 mph, but it was still stuck in the snow. The policeman, having a sense of humor, began running in place next to the speeding but still stationary car. The driver was totally freaked thinking the officer was actually keeping up with him. This goes on for about 30 seconds when the officer yelled at the man ordering him to pull over!

This time the man obeyed and turned his wheel and stopped the engine.

Once out of the car, the drunken driver asked about the patrolman's special training and just how it was possible for him to run 50 mph. The man was arrested still believing that a state patrolman had outrun his car.