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Date:         Fri, 30 Dec 94 19:35:09 EST
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From:         cs@sypro.com (Cetin Seren)
Subject:      cops and busses

Date: Fri, 30 Dec 94 16:53:42 CST Reply-To: vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu Originator: vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu Sender: vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu Precedence: bulk From: "Don Kane" <Don_Kane@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov> X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2

Reply to: RE>cops and busses

I haven't had a bus since '71 but I got stopped a few times in those days.

The first was in 1969 driving my '61 Bus (California plates)driving from Nashville to LA. My lights malfuntioned and a Oklahoma State trooper stopped me right around dusk and gave me a warning. He was very polite despite my long hair and told me to be careful of the Texas Troopers I was about to meet up with in a few miles. Needless to say I stopped for night before crossing Texas. I didn't get those lights fixed until I reached LA. The next year I had a '68 Bus (Tennessee plates)that I drove all over the country. but the only time I got stopped was on a trip from Florida to New York City. First I was stopped in S. Carolina for speeding. Again the cop (local police this time) was polite and didn't try to search my Van or person although I must have fit some profile or other. He was also kind enough to take my fine right there in cash rather than go to the trouble of showing up in court. How convenient. Later in that trip I was stopped on the New Jersey turnpike which was infamous at the time for hassling longhairs, especially in Busses. I wasn't speeding or breaking any other laws, but I was still stopped. This time the Trooper searched my pockets and looked around inside the Van pretty well with his flashlight (it was about 2:00 AM) When I stopped a coke spilled that was sitting on the floor between the seats and He could see my wife and I scrambling around trying to clean it up, and probably thought we were trying to hide something. He accepted the coke story, since the evidence was all over the floor. Truth be told, We were scambling around trying to figure out where a small stash of substance was, so we could hide it. It was in the pocket of my wife's coat, and when the cop felt the pocket from the outside and started to look in it, my wife quickly said "oh, that's just my underwear" . Talk about quick thinking. It stopped the cop immediately and saved our butts. When the cop found out I played Bass for Eddy Arnold (for you younger folks, He was a kind of cityfied Country-Western star back in the 50's and 60's) and was heading for a two-week job at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC, He said "Well anybody who plays for Eddy Arnold can't be all bad" and let us go on our way. The worst part of it was that during the search our toll tiket must have blown out of the bus and we had to pay the maximum toll when we exited. Well, sorry for rambling, but there's not much to do here this afternoon, and I thought I'd get one post in this year after lurking for the last 4 months.

Don Kane Don_Kane@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov Network Manager, NASA/AMES Research Center Mountain View , CA Recom Technologies, Inc.


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