A year ago I had to move from one farm to the next, about a mile down this road with the combine (9610 with a 30 foot header) and working alone I just knew that I could slip down there without pulling the head. I happened to cuff the top of one persons mail box. It was directly across from a substantial Stop Ahead sign on the opposite side of the road and had the mail box been back another foot or six inches shorter I would not have touched it. Got to the next field making the first round around an 80 when I looked up and saw a car up on the other end and wondered who would be stoping to see me when I started to make out the red bubble on top as in Michigan State Police. The first thing the officer said to me was "Do you know that you hit a mail box?" I said I sure do but I couldn't park this combine in the road and stop traffic while I went back to straighten it up. I told him that I would take care of it as soon as I had a chance. I also said to him "Things must be kind of slow over at the post today?" His answer was why do you ask? I said it would take less time to straighten up that mail box than it would to go in the house and call the police to begin with and then for the post commander to send you ten miles to tell me I hit a mail box. He said that he had to track me down also and I said that tracking a thirty foot combine is like tracking an elephant in three foot of fresh snow. All you have to do is look up in the sky and see where all the dust is coming from. I did get him laughing before it was all over and sent my wife to get the guy a brand new mail box. I was as nice as I could be to him as I learned years ago that you will never win in a dispute with the police and after all he is the guy with the gun.
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