OT getting one up on the cops

Reading the posts about gas tanks etc, A post stated using gas for a fuse. This reminded me of around 1972 I lived very close to a HWY. In fact the grove shaded the HWY even. I decided to rake the pine needles, and junk from under the trees / ditch into a windrow along the edge of the HWY to make it easy to load in the manure bucket.

Then I got to thinking of a stream of gas on the wet pine needles could burn off a lot of the bulk, thus I would have less effort in picking the leaves etc up. So I put down a stream of diesel, and gas mix around 300 ft, then I made very small stream so I could use it as a fuse. a fuse. We lived on the only straight stretch for a long way. I told the neighbor kid to watch for cars, and I lit the fuse. The flame went about ten foot, and stopped. Along comes a HWY patrol man going a little faster than he should have been going . Just as he got ½ way thru th windrow, the whole windrow went into a lightning imitation . The cop locked up all four wheels and skidded to about ten ft in front of me making excellent eye contact. I knew this cop was not a nice guy from all reports so I just looked at him. He was the one that broke off the stare, backed up onto the HWY and then drove off with his head down. It wasn’t funny until the cop left, then the neighbor kid and I had a good laugh. From then on it wasn’t so much bother loading up all the junk after all.

I rip on the cops a lot, they are all my friends. At least I still call them friends even though they will not allow me to test drive their squad cars, or let me borrow their gun to shoot someone in the leg. So I guess we aren’t real friends anyway.

Humor can be a dangerous concept. I copied & passed out a cartoon about city officials once. I worked for the city. They saw no humor in that sketch at all. The title read " Village Idiots become City Managers" No sense of humor what so ever!

a few years ago I read in the paper that a guy I think it was nashville,tn got a speeding ticket and faxed the police dept a copy of a check and in return the police faxed him a picture of a set of handcuffs.

A BIL is a retired small city, on the lake, cop. He named his boat "Cop Out". He used the right end of the front bumper of his squad to hook the left end rear bumper of two fleeing armed robbers. The crims ran separate directions but he caught one of them. That must have been the high point of his career and he probably had gotten the idea watching TV.

No surprise there, that is where law 'enforcement' gets most of their ideas.

Cops around here act all like nazi's and trained dog's.I got no use for these arrogant useless SOB's

The city cop in Columbia wouldn't let me borrow his big flashlight after a fleeing felon in a stolen car totaled my son-in-law's truck. Son-in-law escaped with bumps and bruises. The felon had got away from a police chase two weeks earlier and got through a road block right before he hit my son-in-law's truck. The Columbia PD was elated to have the guy in cuffs.

Bison, you must be from Wisconsin

Was at a church committee meeting last night; our new pastor was telling me that where he moved from (upper Mid-South community of about 15,000), he was walking in his neighborhood, as he did every day......carrying a cut-off broom handle because of agressive dogs. Cop rolled up beside and him asked where he was going with that 'club'. He was not investigating a crime, just bored. After being hassled for 3 or 4 minutes, he was allowed to proceed. I would have probably really struggled to keep from telling the cop that I was just exercising my rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. (The preacher is well into middle-age.) It's 'bout as bad around 'here'; I'm probably as much at risk from the 'peace-officers' as I am from criminals. They tend to shoot first.........