Bear Attack

Well not a real bear but it looked like one. The other day I was traveling along the Ohio turnpike when I saw something that shocked me a bit. There was a state trooper clocking form the center, like usual I knew several miles away due to the CB bear reports. Of course the four wheelers, cars, had no clue, which is why one got nailed by the laser he was using. All fairly normal right? What wasn't normal was how this trooper stopped the car, which immediately earned him the nick name of grizzly bear. He got out of his patrol car, ran out into the left lane with his hands above his head to basically grab the van in the center lane and make him pull over a few feet down from him. The van braked and swerved, must have thought what I was thinking, bear road kill, but they did stop where indicated with no trauma, well until they saw the ticket that is.

Now another time on I-75 in Ohio, those Ohio troopers just have all the fun, I watched as a trooper earned himself the CB nick name of super trooper for pulling over two cars, at once. The first car was the one he had pulled out to chase down after catching them with his laser. The second was a girl that was chatting away on her cell phone in the hammer lane (left lane, passing lane, etc). More than a few of us watched in amazement as for more than a mile or two she just kept tooling along with this trooper right behind her with all his lights on. Not the first time I have seen someone who failed to yield right away, but definitely the longest.