re: Best encounter you've had with a cop

Grew up in rural SW GA. Trooper stopped me at night beside a pecan orchard with absolutely no traffic on the road. The Trooper knew my dad real well. They had just been issued 45s. He cocked his hat back on his head and handed his 45 to me and told me to try it out. Kinda freaked me out. I kept pointing it in the ditch but never shot it because I was apprehensive. He kept saying "try it, try it" and I just kept pointing it. I wasn't 100 percent sure then that he meant shoot it,'but I'm positive now that he was meaning to shoot it. Anyway, that's not your every day roadside encounter with a Trooper. That was circa 1990.

The cops in my hometown in the 80s we're generally cool. Call your parents at worst; never take you to jail.