Thursday, December 07, 2006
I Owe This Guy (Or Gal) One
Man, watching tonight's Suns game made my head spin. Was that a crazy gorram show or what? (Extra credit if you know the gorram reference. Not so fast, Cheesehead. You're ineligible)I'm not a gambling man, but I'm guessing 318 points covered the over just fine.
Something interesting happened tonight while I was cruising down the 202 way over on the east east east side. The freeway was virtually deserted, with mine being the only car out there at the time. The speed limit is 65, so being The Crime Dog, and having the 202 to myself, I nudged it up to about 75-80. I was flying along just fine, when suddenly a car came roaring up behind me.
Whoa, partner. What's the rush?
The car changed lanes as it drew close, passed me on the left, and then immediately changed lanes again right back in front of me. Then it slowed down to about 60mph.
Dude. What is your problem?
I switched lanes to my left to get away from the car, and then began to accelerate again to go on by it. Suddenly, the car switched lanes into my path again.
Damn! Please tell me I' m not in the middle of some road-rage bullshit here.
I began to change lanes once again, since I was right on his ass following his last maneuver. It was then that the whole back window of the car lit up for a second like a Christmas tree on meth, then went dark again.
An unmarked police car? What the.....?
Needless to say, I slowed down to about 60mph. The officer pulled away and distanced himself from me.
OK, I get it if an officer stops me for speeding. Hell, I wrote literally thousands of speeding tickets in my law enforcement days. But why is he going to this trouble to slow me down, when there's nobody else out here?
Another half mile down the road, I had my answer. A DPS unit, running radar, was waiting patiently alongside the freeway for a violator. If the officer in the umarked had not slowed me down, I'd be spending next weekend in traffic school.
But why? I don't get it.
No matter. Let's just call it a Christmas gift from Officer Unknown to The Crime Dog. Thanks, friend, and Happy Holidays to you too.
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Something interesting happened tonight while I was cruising down the 202 way over on the east east east side. The freeway was virtually deserted, with mine being the only car out there at the time. The speed limit is 65, so being The Crime Dog, and having the 202 to myself, I nudged it up to about 75-80. I was flying along just fine, when suddenly a car came roaring up behind me.
Whoa, partner. What's the rush?
The car changed lanes as it drew close, passed me on the left, and then immediately changed lanes again right back in front of me. Then it slowed down to about 60mph.
Dude. What is your problem?
I switched lanes to my left to get away from the car, and then began to accelerate again to go on by it. Suddenly, the car switched lanes into my path again.
Damn! Please tell me I' m not in the middle of some road-rage bullshit here.
I began to change lanes once again, since I was right on his ass following his last maneuver. It was then that the whole back window of the car lit up for a second like a Christmas tree on meth, then went dark again.
An unmarked police car? What the.....?
Needless to say, I slowed down to about 60mph. The officer pulled away and distanced himself from me.
OK, I get it if an officer stops me for speeding. Hell, I wrote literally thousands of speeding tickets in my law enforcement days. But why is he going to this trouble to slow me down, when there's nobody else out here?
Another half mile down the road, I had my answer. A DPS unit, running radar, was waiting patiently alongside the freeway for a violator. If the officer in the umarked had not slowed me down, I'd be spending next weekend in traffic school.
But why? I don't get it.
No matter. Let's just call it a Christmas gift from Officer Unknown to The Crime Dog. Thanks, friend, and Happy Holidays to you too.
