Only in Texas
With a tip of the Stetson to Bloviating Zeppelin
A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy.
He thinks that he is smarter than the deputy because he is a lawyer from New York and is certain that he has a better education then any cop from Texas. He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the Texas deputy’s expense.
The deputy says,’ License and registration, please.’
‘What for?’ says the lawyer.
The deputy says, ‘You didn’t come to a complete stop at the stop sign.’
Then the lawyer says, ‘I slowed down, and no one was coming.’
‘You still didn’t come to a complete stop’ says the deputy. ‘License and registration, please.’
The lawyer says, ‘What’s the difference?’
‘The difference is you have to come to complete stop, that’s the law. License and registration, please!’ the Deputy says.
Lawyer says, ‘If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I’ll give you my license and registration; and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and don’t give me the ticket.’
‘That sounds fair. Please exit your vehicle, sir,’ the deputy says.
At this point, the deputy takes out his nightstick and starts beating the daylights out of the lawyer and says, ‘Do you want me to stop, or just slow down?’
Speaking for the rest of America, who have seen the results of lawyers and their actions, I vote for just slowing down a bit…
Can I vote for neither option?
Good one Fred.
However The police in Obama’s Chicago district use that rule of thumb too when pulling over many of it’s residents, who 9 times out of ten are in the commission of or just committed some kind of crime when running lights or stopsigns
“At this point, the deputy takes out his nightstick and starts beating the daylights out of the suspect and says, ‘Do you want me to stop, or just slow down”
Hey Fred, c’mon, he’s from New York.
Laws for regular folks aren’t suppossed to apply to him, are they?
Me, I would have……no, I better not go there.
Ha.
Good one Fred.
Oh yeah! This is a good one.
I will add that one to my overcrowded drawer of great jokes about lawyers.
That’s a good one.
No fair Fred–you found my boss (the lawyer)
Now, that Señor Fred, is very funny!