Just a Joke Between Partners

Police are always pulling one gag or another on each other but here's one that is almost legend. Two guys who had been partners for years found themselves working night turn one summer evening. The passenger was nice and curled up in a deep slumber while the driver was just circling the borough. They soon found themselves near some railroad tracks where there was a train engine stopped not on, but near the crossing facing the roadway. With his passenger in la-la-land, the driver stopped the police car on the tracks, turned the engine off and began screaming. The sleeping officer awoke, saw the train's spot light just feet from his door and, unable to find the door handle, hastily climbed out the car's window in a panic. Even after many years, he never did find that gag too funny.