From “Captain Black- True Stories of a Small-Town Cop”
I had just left the Kaufman County Jail after dropping off a prisoner and was headed back to the Police Department. I was sitting at the crossover on Highway 175 waiting for traffic to clear, when I noticed a 4-door pickup that was coming toward me, drive off onto the shoulder of the road. The driver quickly jerked the truck back into his lane of traffic, but almost hit the car beside him. I had to check this out and make sure the driver wasn't intoxicated, so after they passed my location, I caught up to the vehicle and pulled them over near the Houston Street exit.
As I was walking up to the driver's door to make contact, I could hear the people in the truck laughing like crazy. I noticed the driver had rolled down all of the windows, so when I reached the rear door I looked in the backseat and instantly asked myself why in the hell I ever became a cop!
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