In most of the United States , there is a policy of&#33; checking on<br />
any stalled vehicle on the highway when the temperatures drop <br />
down to single digits or below. <br />
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About 3 AM, one very cold morning, Trooper Allan Nixon #658<br />
responded to a call there was a car off <br />
the shoulder of the road<br />
outside Shattuck . He located the car, stuck in deep snow, and with<br />
the engine still running. Pulling in behind the car with his<br />
emergency lights on, the Trooper walked to the driver&#39;s door to find an older man passed out behind the wheel with a nearly empty vodka<br />
bottle on the seatbeside him. <br />
<br />
The driver came awake when the Trooper tapped on the window .<br />
Seeing the rotating lights in his <br />
<br />
rearview mirror, and the State<br />
Trooper standing next to his car, the man panicked. <br />
<br />
He jerked the gearshift into &#39;drive&#39; and hit the gas . The car&#39;s<br />
speedometer was showing 20-30-40 and then 50 mph, but it was <br />
still stuck in the snow, wheels spinning. <br />
<br />
Trooper Nixon, having a sense of humor, began running in place<br />
next to the speeding, but still stationary car. The driver was<br />
totally freaked, thinking the Trooper was actually keeping up <br />
with him. This goes on for about 30 seconds, then the Trooperyelled, &quot;Pull over&#33;&quot; <br />
<br />
The man obeyed , turned his wheel <br />
<br />
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 . <br />
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Who says Trooper&#39;s don&#39;t have a sense of humor ?