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For those that get "The Legend" with your GTOAA membership... In this month's copy, there's a story titled "Wisconsin State Trooper Incident"

To use a phrase from the person who told this tale- "COMPLETE RUBBISH!"

The backstory is that this fellow from the UK was here in the USA, and was stopped for speeding in Beloit, WI by a State Trooper on the intersate. His account of it does not sound anything like the people here in Wisconsin, especially his account of what was supposedly said to him. He claims he was called "Boy" by the "Desk Sergeant" who "was smoking a big cigar". He refers to Beloit and later Janesville as "small towns". Couple things- Beloit is a city of over 37,000 people and Janesville is a city of over 60,000 people, these are not "small towns" by any stretch. What's more, anyone employed in Wisconsin, ESPECIALLY law enforcement, know we have had laws on the books for a few years now where smoking in the workplace is forbidden, and cops can't even smoke in their squad cars. It sounded like a totally fabricated story by someone from outside the USA that has watched "Smokey and the Bandit" one too many times, and fails to realize that he was stereotyping a Southern small town deputy while in the extreme Northern USA. We don't speak that way up here fella... Furthermore, I've been stopped on that stretch before by a trooper, was treated very respectfully, told to slow down ( I was going over 80 MPH at the time) and let off with a warning... I suppose they need stories to publish. The whole ting sounds very made up to blunt honest...

Ok.. rant over.