I was working a night hunting detail in west Greene Co Al with my Lt and another officer one night. Lt decided to call it a night about 1am and headed out. I waited a little bit and eased out to the paved road just after a car went by. Just as I got to where I could see the car, its brake lights came on and a flame shot out the right side, followed by a boom!!!!
Oh yeah, adrenaline starts pumping as I sped towards them, lights out. The road here was miles long and straight as a laser beam.
The car sped away, and I turned on my headlights and blue light from a hundred yards back. We were approaching 100mph as I caught up to them, but they wern't stopping. I pulled to the left to pass em and turned on my spotlight as I did so. My transmission was already making a bad noise and when the spotlight came on ALL the wheels came off Every light in/on my new truck went out...spotlight/interior /headlights...every one of them at 100mph...
I didn't have time to get scared. I could still see from the other cars lights, but my transmission was coming apart also. I pulled to the right, slowing in front of them and forcing them to the wide shallow grass edge of the road. I got stopped and bailed out, shotgun in hand. The two fiftyish white men in the car gave me no trouble. That 12" barrelled 870 was a real persuader. LOL
The two were dressed in jeans, no hunting clothes, no hunting gear, no gun, no shells, not even a pocket knife. They denied shooting, but I knew it had been them that shot. I decided to take all their personal info and let em go, telling them to get out of the county and not return that night. I called my Lt and told him about the car and my disabled truck. I said I would sleep in the truck and have a look come daylight.
First light I was up walking the road. Didn't take long and I found a 12ga, 3"OO buckshot spent shell. Five more minutes and I found the mid sized eight point buck they had shot, with several buckshot holes in it. Took my another 30 minutes and a couple hundred yards to find the gun, a Rem 1100 12 ga semi auto. I loaded all into my truck and called my Lt for a tow truck.
When I got to town I called my partner and told him the story. He knew the one fella, having arrested him in the exact same place ten years earlier. A quick look in his files produced the gun make and serial number....same gun I found that morning!! Lightning had struck twice in the same spot.....
I called the two men that morning and told them I had warrants for their arrest for 1. Hunting at night 2. Hunting w/o permission 3. Hunting from public road 4. attempting to elude. No argument from them, they wanted to know if they could come down after lunch and see the judge!! I met them at the courthouse mid afternoon and served the warrants, then took them before Judge Ralph Banks. Seems fines ran to around $1000.00 each...which they promptly paid in cash to the clerk. They left for home right away and I figured that was the end of that....
Two days later the GW in their home county called me to ask if I had arrested one of the guys and if he had a gun. I replied yes to both and found out the guy was out on parole on attempted murder and arson. His Parole Officer called me next day, then drove down to pick up all the info on the case. A week later the man was back in prison for breaking parole by having that shotgun...served SEVEN more years for that lil buck he killed.....
and that dang Chevy truck went thru FOUR transmissions while I had it. and it seems the department let the convicts at the nearby prison wire the spotlights in......
Oh yeah, adrenaline starts pumping as I sped towards them, lights out. The road here was miles long and straight as a laser beam. The car sped away, and I turned on my headlights and blue light from a hundred yards back. We were approaching 100mph as I caught up to them, but they wern't stopping. I pulled to the left to pass em and turned on my spotlight as I did so. My transmission was already making a bad noise and when the spotlight came on ALL the wheels came off
Every light in/on my new truck went out...spotlight/interior /headlights...every one of them at 100mph...I didn't have time to get scared. I could still see from the other cars lights, but my transmission was coming apart also. I pulled to the right, slowing in front of them and forcing them to the wide shallow grass edge of the road. I got stopped and bailed out, shotgun in hand. The two fiftyish white men in the car gave me no trouble. That 12" barrelled 870 was a real persuader. LOL
The two were dressed in jeans, no hunting clothes, no hunting gear, no gun, no shells, not even a pocket knife. They denied shooting, but I knew it had been them that shot. I decided to take all their personal info and let em go, telling them to get out of the county and not return that night. I called my Lt and told him about the car and my disabled truck. I said I would sleep in the truck and have a look come daylight.
First light I was up walking the road. Didn't take long and I found a 12ga, 3"OO buckshot spent shell. Five more minutes and I found the mid sized eight point buck they had shot, with several buckshot holes in it. Took my another 30 minutes and a couple hundred yards to find the gun, a Rem 1100 12 ga semi auto. I loaded all into my truck and called my Lt for a tow truck.
When I got to town I called my partner and told him the story. He knew the one fella, having arrested him in the exact same place ten years earlier. A quick look in his files produced the gun make and serial number....same gun I found that morning!!
Lightning had struck twice in the same spot.....I called the two men that morning and told them I had warrants for their arrest for 1. Hunting at night 2. Hunting w/o permission 3. Hunting from public road 4. attempting to elude. No argument from them, they wanted to know if they could come down after lunch and see the judge!! I met them at the courthouse mid afternoon and served the warrants, then took them before Judge Ralph Banks. Seems fines ran to around $1000.00 each...which they promptly paid in cash to the clerk. They left for home right away and I figured that was the end of that....
Two days later the GW in their home county called me to ask if I had arrested one of the guys and if he had a gun. I replied yes to both and found out the guy was out on parole on attempted murder and arson. His Parole Officer called me next day, then drove down to pick up all the info on the case. A week later the man was back in prison for breaking parole by having that shotgun...served SEVEN more years for that lil buck he killed.....
and that dang Chevy truck went thru FOUR transmissions while I had it. and it seems the department let the convicts at the nearby prison wire the spotlights in......
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