"NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH"

Shannon News, 4 December 1925, Page 1

"NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH"

AS TOLD TO A TRAFFIC "COP." . In New York, motor cycle mounted police are used to check speeding motorists. An interview with one or these men in the "New York Times" emotes some amusing excuses offered by offenders, from which we extract the following:— ( "Each time I catch up to a speeding car and wave it to the kerb I wonder what kind of yarn I'm going to hear. I've made a sort of collection of the stores that have been forced on me, and I'm. always on the lookout for new ones. "For the first two or three years on this job I would drink in every word before filling out the summons, but now I've learned how to listen and write at the same time. Asking a driver for his license ,is like requesting a bedtime story. The card conies slowly, but the yarn comes fast. "I used to like the one in which the speeder had just had the engine completely overhauled and had found that the car moved thirty miles an hour with the same pressure on the accelerator that had fifteen in the past. The yarn about the new shoes through which the driver hadn't yet got the feel of the gas pedal was another favourite. The fellow who had recently received a rise in pay and just couldn't make his feet behave was entertaining. "It has been some months since I met the last man, who Avas so over-' joyed because his wife had presented, him with a baby boy that he really could not be expected to move along at less than fifteen miles'an hour. I let two or three of them get by with that yarn but when I hear it now I am likely to hand out a ticket for reckless driving as well as for speeding. • "You see, I once took down the address of one of these new fathers and made a little investigation. After my tour of duty I went to the house, I rang the bell and a woman came to the door. I mentioned the name of \& man I was inquiring- for, and the ,* **&» said that she was his wife. t OK + &1 flustered and finally manS %\ remark what a nice thing it agecrto . present lier h us band was fork * b b with a beau ~ m& funny Uke and She looked • } with the con . said I was,rath been pre . Simulations, as th vti / njnfe years be _ seated- to her husbfc „ ck f tUe ftouse. lore and was m the ~ Infl j ang witlj playing cowboys fi^a some of the neighlJOUi. s v