I stopped a guy for running a red light on Christmas Eve and had him sit in the back of my squad car while I ran the license check and wrote him the tag (he had run the light badly, almost causing an accident). As I brought out my ticket book he said, “Ahh, man,…
I’m a retired police officer and have, over my thirty-three years on the force, accumulated some funny stories. This is one of my favorites: I was working the late shift and stopped a car as it had a myriad of equipment violations. When I asked the driver for his driver’s license he told me he…
Every year three of my friends—Eric, Dave, Jim—and I take a week-long bicycle trip, with all our clothes for the week and camping equipment carried in bike bags attached to our bikes, somewhere in the country. I should make clear here that we are not fitness freaks training for the Olympics. We are all 50-plus-year-olds…
In 2014 I rode the Tour of Saints one-day ride. There are two distance choices, 35 miles or 50 miles so it is a good ride to break into long distance rides. The ride starts and ends at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, MN (thus the “Tour of Saints” name), takes place…