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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Forgalspop" data-source="post: 4217096" data-attributes="member: 46636">Back in 1978 or 79 I was driving from McAlester, OK headed for Pleasanton, KS on Hwy. 69. I had just finished a construction project in McAlester. I was driving an old one ton company Ford pickup with a stake bed full of tools. There was another guy riding in the passenger seat and we were pulled over by a big black OHP officer and he had us get out of the truck and pulled his gun on us and had us put our hands on the back of the truck bed.That day two old boys that had shot and killed officers in Oklahoma and Texas and had been going back and forth on their rampage, so all the highway patrol were on high alert. At that point in time they still had not been apprehended.The reason he said he pulled us over was I had crossed the center line a couple times. He asked if I had been drinking and I told him no, I was just tired from putting in long days finishing up a construction project. The truth was the front steering components of that pickup were worn out and it was hard to keep the truck going in a straight line. I didn’t want to tell him the steering was worn out.After he relaxed and put his gun away he told me to have the other guy drive if I was so tired, so the other guy took over driving and the patrolman went his way and we went on our way. That was the only time I have ever had a gun drawn on me.Over the years I have driven many miles in Oklahoma and have been pulled over at least 5 or 6 times by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol for minor traffic violations and they have never written me a ticket and have been nothing but professional. I can’t say that about some local-yokel cops. I have also met and dealt with some local cops that were professional and courteous, but a few were anything but professional.</blockquote>

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