State Troopers. Yours and Mine

[Walt Longmire]

[Walt Longmire]

My grandson who is currently in the Marines is applying to be an Alaska State Trooper.

[Walt Longmire]

[Walt Longmire]

[Walt Longmire]

[Walt Longmire]

[Walt Longmire]

[Zonny]

[Walt Longmire]

3 minutes ago, Zonny said:

Easy girl. You'll get yourself all worked up.

[John]

13 minutes ago, Zonny said:

And the reality...

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Edited September 3, 2018 by John

[Zonny]

Hey!! This is MY dream! You stay out of it!  

[Zonny]

12 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said:

Easy girl. You'll get yourself all worked up.

Too late. I love puppies

[Walt Longmire]

1 minute ago, Zonny said:

Too late. I love puppies

You can see his wiener.

[tadbart]

Mine are just a bunch of revenuer vultures in hideous cars.

 

Flarduh Highway Patrol. AAA with a badge.

[PNWguy]

Our state trooper cars are cool as heck...

 

We even used to use Mustang 5.0s in the 80's and 90's...

[AK_Stick]

12 hours ago, Walt Longmire said:

Unfortunetly Mel, and Helo 1 are no longer with the AST. 

[PNWguy]

Washington State Patrol uses a lot of unmarked cars.  Heard rumors of a 440 six-pack Roadrunner back in the 80's being used.

 

 

[AK_Stick]

Just now, PNWguy said:

Washington State Patrol uses a lot of unmarked cars.  Heard rumors of a 440 six-pack Roadrunner back in the 80's being used.

 

 

 

 

Lots of those. AST used to have a corvette they’d gotten in a drug bust they used for traffic enforcement. 

 

 

Seen a lot of cars headed towards his area of the woods pulled over in the summer by a vette. 

[Hauptmann6]

Our road pirates are cooler than your road pirates.

 

And they have tested just about every vehicle possible over the years before anyone else.

Edited September 3, 2018 by Hauptmann6

[Huaco Kid]

I've never been ticketed or arrested by a state trooper.  But, I have been "rousted" by them many, many times.  (when they ask if they can search your car, just give them a pleasant, "No thanks."  They like that.  (They once even called for the dogs!))

That being said, they were always 100% professional and ultra-serious.

[Glocks4Freedom]

[PNWguy]

[GoDirectly2Jail]

The color scheme of our Trooper vehicles stems from the blue and grey uniform colors of the civil war. 

[Walt Longmire]

1 hour ago, AK_Stick said:

Unfortunetly Mel, and Helo 1 are no longer with the AST. 

So true. We have lost several great troopers in the past couple of years.

[PNWguy]

30 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said:

I've never been ticketed or arrested by a state trooper.  But, I have been "rousted" by them many, many times.  (when they ask if they can search your car, just give them a pleasant, "No thanks."  They like that.  (They once even called for the dogs!))

That being said, they were always 100% professional and ultra-serious.

I was going to post that I've never been ticketed by a Trooper either, but then I remembered that my first ticket after getting out of the military was given by an Idaho state trooper in `92. 

I had just bought a brand new `92 Toyota pickup and put larger tires on it and was on my way to a ski lodge when a trooper pulled me over and ticketed me for going 62mph in a 55 zone.  He acknowledged that the larger tires probably threw off my speedometer reading, but said that wasn't his problem.

I've known a few Idaho state troopers over the years and all but two were dicks.  One guy, he was a county deputy and worked with my brother.  We hung out at his place and partied together.  Then he became a state trooper and became a dick.