I did get a few speeding tickets as a young man. Before I started driving cars I had a ring side seat to a traffic stop that I still chuckle about.
Our farm overlooked a small river valley with an intersection of two gravel roads at the bottom of the valley. The cross road had stop signs. Visibility at the intersection was fantastic, between 3/8 to 5/8 mile up hill in all four directions. When there was no other traffic in sight, many people on the cross road just slowed down enough to bounce over the chuck holes in front of the stop signs and drive on through without stopping. We had a field drive at the top of our hill where a rookie deputy sheriff liked to park and watch for people running the stop signs.
Towards dusk one October afternoon I noticed a neighbor from the next mile over on down on the cross road driving a tractor and two wagons from his brother's place to his home place. A few minutes later the brother comes over the hill with another tractor, what looked like a brand shiney new red and white IH234 mounted picker, lights on, flashers flashing, with a third wagon in tow. At the intersection the brother only slows down and drives through the stop sign without stopping.
Within seconds sirens blared out and a bright sublime green Dodge Superbee patrol car comes tearing down the hill with it's light bar all lit up. It slides around the corner at the intersection and catches up with the offending corn picker within seconds.
I knew the brother and he was not someone I'd want to mess with. Well, the patrol car catches up with the corn picker and the corn picker just keeps going. The patrol car starts weaving back and forth behind the corn picker, sirens and light bar on, flashing headlights and blasting an air horn trying to get the driver's attention. The brother just looks straight ahead and keeps on driving. Those two bright vehicles moving slow with all their noise, dust, lights and flashers made quite a sight. This goes on for about 1/4 mile before the partol car passes the corn picker and blocks the road to finally stop the picker.
I watched for a few more minutes before I had to go in the barn and feed hay to the cattle. As dad and I cleaned up for supper I told dad the story. It seemed like a lot of fuss for just a slow corn picker. I never heard the result of the traffic stop but I think dad and the brother had a good laugh at that evening's men's church meeting.
Fourty years later that intersection still has those two stop signs, I don't know why they were never replaced with yield signs.
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