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Subject: A 'gater Tale
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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 09:43:29 EST
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From: akov68::boyajian
	There is an apocryphal story 'round these parts that a policeman in
a nearby town used to tailgate cars on a slow night to force them into speeding
up past the speed limit so that he could pull them over. One night, an intrepid
soul decided he'd had enough (he fell into this trap once before) and when the
cop got real close to his hind end, he slammed on his brakes. The policecar of
course smashed into him, and the cop jumped out with fire in his eyes and
demanded to know why the kid stopped. "I saw something run across the road and
didn't want to run it over. Why were you following so close behind me, anyway?"
the Intrepid Soul answered. The Soul's car sustained only a damaged trunk, the
police car was barely able to drive away, and the cop never pulled that trick
again. There is some justice.

					---jayembee
					   (Jerry Boyajian @ DEC Maynard)
					   (decvax!decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian)