The Chronicle

HAVE A LAUGH

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TRUE STORY

IN MOST of the United States there is a policy of checking on any stalled vehicle on the highway when temperatur­es drop to single digits or below.

About 3am one very cold morning, a Montana state trooper responded to a call there was a car off the shoulder of the road.

He located the car, stuck in deep snow and with the engine still running.

Pulling in behind the car, with his emergency lights on, the trooper walked to the driver’s door to find an older man passed out behind the wheel with a nearly empty bottle of vodka on the seat beside him.

The driver came awake when the trooper tapped on the window.

Seeing the rotating lights in his rearview mirror, and the state trooper standing next to his car, the man panicked.

He jerked the gear-shift into drive and hit the gas.

The car’s speedo was showing 20-30-40 and then 50 MPH, but it was still stuck in the snow, wheels spinning.

The trooper having a sense of humour, began running in place next to the speeding, but stationary, car.

The driver was totally freaked, thinking the trooper was actually keeping up with him.

This goes on for about 30 seconds, then the trooper yelled, “Pull over!”

The man nodded, turned his wheel and stopped the engine.

Needless to say, the man was arrested and is probably still shaking his head over the trooper who could run 50 miles per hour.

WEDDING VOWS

Two little boys were at a wedding.

One leaned over to the other and asked, “How many wives can a man have?”

His friend answered, “Sixteen.”

“Four better, four worse, four richer, and four poorer.”

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