I've a friend like you and Brady. He got seriously hassled in
Mississippi and Louisiana. Nowadays he's all nerves and eyeballs when he
crosses those states.

John Rodgers
Clayartist and Moldmaker
88'GL VW Bus Driver
Chelsea, AL
Http://www.moldhaus.com

On 1/8/2011 11:17 AM, miguel pacheco wrote:
> Let's see.....
> I was Puerto Rican in Detroit
> I was Cuban in Key West
> I was Mexican in the great nation of Texas
> I'm dark
> I've been driving VWs since 1970
> Do some simple math and you know I've been hassled by the man more
> than once. Not as many times as Brady (I think they go by shade!)
> .
> I was stopped in Mexico a couple of years ago, driving my Syncro SVX
> AW, doing 85mph. This bad ass, big boy cop was nothing but nastyness,
> until he thought he recognized my accent and he asked me,
> 'Where are you from?'
> 'Argentina,' says I.....
> 'Ahhhh,' he responds with a big smile, 'from the land of Che?'
> 'Si, si,' says I.
> Immediately, he steps back and gestures, 'my land is your land....'
> and away I go...zoom zoom.
>
>
> Miguel
>
> He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess
> them, needs religion.
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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