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Subject: [Leica] Completely off topic.. but funny!
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:10:09 -0800
References: <200312051912.LAA21296@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

Hi folks,
Given some days a tad bit of humour can help us through it. And given this
is Friday, well here anyway, ;-) I thought some of you folks might enjoy
this even if you've seen it before.

Particularly those who drive Mercedes. ;-)
ted

> > There was a senior citizen who bought a brand new  Mercedes convertible
> > SLK.
> > He took off down the road,  flooring it up to 80 mph and enjoying the
wind
> > blown through  what little hair he had left on his head.
> > This is great," he  thought and floored it some more. Then he looked in
> > his rearview mirror. There was a highway patrol Trooper behind him, blue
> > lights flashing and siren blaring. "I can get away from  him with no
problem,"
> > thought the man as he floored it some  more and flew down the road at
over 100
> > mph. Then he  thought, "What am I doing? I'm too old for this kind  of
thing,"
> > and pulled over to the side of the road and  waited for the state
trooper to
> > catch up with him.
> > The trooper  pulled behind the Mercedes and walked up to the man. "Sir,"
> > he said, looking at his watch. "My shift ends in 30 minutes and  today
is
> > Friday the 13th. If you can give me one good reason why you were
speeding that
> > I've never heard before, I'll let you  go."
> > The man looked back at the trooper and said,  "Years ago my wife ran off
> > with a State trooper, and I  thought you were bringing her back."
> > The state trooper  replied, "Have a nice day".



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