Several years ago, I was driving an old beater pickup when it was about half dark, and a Nebraska State Trooper pulled me over.
I knew I hadn't been speeding. After he did the preliminaries, he said, "When you passed me back there, I didn't see any tail lights, nor any brake lights when you stopped. I'll have to give you a vehicle defect ticket, you'll have to take the pickup to a repair shop, have the tail lights fixed, have a law officer sign the ticket and mail it in".
I told him, "Oh he11, I know what happened. It did it about a year ago once. When you hack around out in the fields with a farm truck, corn stalks and weeds reach up under the back of the box and unplug the tail lights".
The trooper went through his entire spiel again about taking the pickup to a repair shop and having the tail lights fixed. He then went back to his cruiser and began writing the ticket. While he was doing that, I crawled under the back of the pickup and plugged the lights back in. Of course, when I plugged them in, the tail lights, 4 way flashers, and the whole works came back on.
The trooper got out of his car, looked at the lights, looked at his ticket, said, "Guess I won't need this", got in his car and drove off.
I understand the tickets are numbered, and a trooper has to account for every one written. I often wondered how he explained that one.
Next day, I did put a wire tie around the plug to keep it from happening again.
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