Backstory: The trooper stopped the drunk (20 times over the limit) from driving at full speed into this:
After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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oh dear
God Bless You, Trooper!
I looked it up and apparently the drunk driver survived and faces charges.
The officer did the equivalent of throwing yourself on a hand grenade. Pretty frightening stuff. Give her a medal, a promotion, and a desk. My hat’s off to her.
Right on Casey, her actions saved many Innocent lives.
It kind of irritates me that these special events can shut down highways. Bicycles, runners, parades, etc. Surely there are some non-highway venues where they can do their thing. But if they must use the highways why shouldn’t they pay the taxes. One day closing the bridge = $100,000. Seems fair.
Another example of why I proudly fly a Thin Blue Line American flag at my home and one at my business.
We need a lot more Police Officers like her.
“We need a lot more Police Officers like her.”
Yes indeed. Less or no pulling people over for seatbelt and other revenue collection.
Anonymous- so do you think that some folks should be exempt from the laws that everyone else should have to follow? Should fines (revenue) be eliminated and incarceration be used instead?
It does not take a genius mentality to figure out how to use a seatbelt.
That is a true Momma Bear…
We all complain that modern vehicles can’t be repaired without computers and special tools. All true. But the ability of modern–post 2000, maybe earlier–vehicles to keep occupants alive in what used to be deadly crashes is just awesome.
I covered many crashes as a reporter and as an EMT in the late 1970s through the early 1980s. As the driver in the heavier vehicle, the officer might have survived back then IF she was wearing her seatbelt. No way would the other driver live. And, back then, there would have been a lot of bent metal and perhaps a bumper on the ground. Nowadays there’s a big halo of broken parts expanding away from the impact. All of that soaked up some of the energy and kept it out of the passenger compartment.
Now a days it is $100k of spent stolen money just because.
Remember.
What if? makes the world go round, for the fraidy katz.
In a sane world that bitch would have had her fat skall crushed decades ago.
Today, soibois cuck for her.
This trooper put her life on the line, for the good of the people. She saved many many lives that day,, she did her job! That’s police” Medal of Honor” kinda courage.