Today I am continuing my series of stories about my family and today I am focusing on a true and hopefully funny story about my Dad. Please enjoy and share!
Lady Speeding, Rookie Cop, Got to Go Right Now
Dad told us a story about a woman that was speeding one day. He was new to the police force and had just been let loose as a patrol officer. He was patrolling a major road in town and a lady drove by him going 55 in a 35. He instantly turned his car around and turned on his blue lights in hot pursuit of the speed demon flying down the road. He got behind this lady and flashed his lights in an attempt to stop her. She kept going and actually sped up so he wasn't quite sure what to do as a new cop, so he called it in. They told him to continue pursuit and follow her, stay in radio contact and help was on the way to assist him.
He stayed in pursuit for several blocks and the woman suddenly pulled over slamming on her brakes to stop making him almost hit her car. He swerved to a stop, got out irritated by all this nonsense and went to her car window. She rolled her window down and stuck her driver's license out the window. Dad walked up to talk to her and she told him “here is my license”, handed it to him and took off. He runs back to his car and goes in pursuit again, and now he is really irritated with her and what she is doing. She took off like a bat out of you know to go wherever she was heading.
A stoplight catches her and she stops, but takes off right through it just before it changes. Well by the time Dad got to the light she was moving on and traffic was coming the other way and slowed him down enough for her to get out of eye sight. Now she has broken several laws and seems to be running from the police. She goes down the road a ways and makes a sudden turn into a neighborhood and gets gone and he is sure now that she is running from him, but didn’t understand why she gave him the license. He grew up in town and knew the area so he rode to her house to see if she was there. In the driveway sits that car that had run from him with nobody in it and it is still running with the door wide open. The door to the house is open wide also.
He gets out, checks the car, checks the yard, checks the neighbors yard and does not see the woman. So he goes back and calls it in again and is told help will arrive soon. He goes to the door and knocks and this really pretty young lady comes to the door crying and emotional. She is the lady that was driving the car and is very apologetic and fearful that she may get arrested. Dad, fearing something had happened to her and tries to calm her down so he can figure out what has occurred. He wanted to make sure she was alright and she didn’t appear to be a danger to him.
Dad reassures her to calm down and explain herself. She calms down and tells him. I am sorry I ran and I gave you my license on purpose so you could track me down. I had just left work and well, uh, well, uh have had an issue all day with her stomach. Dad asked her what kind of issue and she replied back to him red faced and embarrassed as can be. “I have had the runs all day and on the way home it hit me and I just knew I would poop in my pants, so I was speeding to get home”. I wanted to stop but knew that I wouldn’t be able to hold it so I gave you my license instead as a show of good will. She told him she barely made it home and ran into the bathroom just in time. She explained that it was a newer car her husband had just bought and she didn’t want to make a mess of her pants and car so I gave you my drivers license to do the right thing since I couldn't stop for you.
This put him in a really tough position as a new officer and a good man and human being he had to think about what had just happened. He called in and told dispatch he had things under control and no longer needed assistance. Back then the police force was much smaller and had to cover large areas of town so he did not want to pull another officer to the scene for a woman that had to poop.
He knew he was supposed to arrest her or give her a ticket for speeding and eluding him. But as a kind and considerate young man he also knew the lady was in a bad spot and had tried to make it right with him. After some conversation and a stern warning, he decided to let the lady off with a verbal warning and some laughs between the two. This was one of the first of many stories he told me and my brothers later in life. When we were growing up he did not talk about his days on the force and the things that happened daily because he wanted to protect us and not have us worry about him. In this event he showed that being kind, considerate and using sound judgement is often the best recourse in life. I miss my dad daily, his warmth, advice and guidance.
God Bless! KB
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