Best: My mother and I were driving home from Portland International on I5. I was wiped out and had been asleep in the passenger seat, but awoke to flashing lights and those median bumps as my mother pulled off the freeway. We were being pulled over. My mother came to a stop and shifted the trans to Park. Moments later there was a crunch and our car surged forward another 5ft. The trooper had punted us doing $1500+ damage (1988 dollars).
The officer wrote in his report that the collission was just "a slight contact." The state adjuster showed up the next day and did his best Buckwheat impression.
I recall at the time the officer coughed up something about us doing 65 in a 55 zone, but for some reason he decided against giving us the citation. What was choice was that he had a trainee riding shotgun. Who knows what they were doing to have such severe brain-fade.
