[Jamo]

Several stories given the amount of driving I do...

Arizona in the mid-1980s. Triple digits in a Z-28 on a big two-lane between Parker on the Colorado and I-10 to go into Phoenix for a federal court hearing. Come up on an ambulance with flashing lights going in the same direction, but only doing 85-90. Nobody else around, so I passed it, giving it a wide berth. Cop pulls me over about 10 miles later and starts yelling at me regarding speeding and impeding an emergency vehicle (the ambulance passes us and the prick in the passenger seat gives me a wave, smiling). I decided I had not a damn thing to lose, so I argued with the cop about "impeding" the ambulance since I was going at least 20mph faster and asked to see the Arizona statute he was relying on. (It helped that I explained that I represented the employer in a strike back in Parker since some of his buddies were catching hell from the pickets...so I was one of the good guys.) Well, the statute at that time didn't say you couldn't pass the an emergency vehicle. Made a deal..told him he knew where I was going to be for the next month (the strike) so check it out with his superiors and/or the AG...double or nuthin: Either I get two counts for speeding and impeding the emergency vehicle if I'm wrong, or I get nuthing. Got a letter a few weeks later, warning me about hell and damnation if I get caught speeding again, but that no citation would be forthcoming, and that the law would likely be revised. It was.