Thread: Funny things we did with our hotrods in early 60's

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Again,there were a lot of good guy cops in Miami in the early 60's,but this is about the same butthead cop from the other storys.
I guess I got to set ya up with the were when,and layout,; I lived in Coconut Grove/Miami,one house off the bay/water,there was a street "Fairile" going passed my house to a brige that was not completed by a few feet to an empyt inland of just trees and sand,they were going to develip it some day,but for a few years it just had a fance with barbed wire on top ,on the land side of the brige and mostly was locked up. But we cut the lock off every few weeks so every one could go across the brige to swim or fish ect.
There was one old man in our naborhood who seem to think it was his job to keep every one from going out on the braige ,so he would close the gate back up and some times even lock with his own little lock,plus so no one would clime over the gate,he smeared black bull tar on the fancing,maybe he did it cuz the kids call him names or he had nothing better to do,but it's not about him,but the butt cop insted. Who was still giving all the kids n hotrodders as hard a time as he could.
OK,to get to the story,I'm mowing my lawn in plan site of the open brige gates from my yard,see a few of my buddys and some kids go over to the inland. After a short time butthead cop drives by in his cop car and right through the open gates on over the hump of the brige to give a hard time to anyone fishing or playing on the braige or beach. Seeing that made me remeber a big old rusty padalock that was open and had no key to,Dad was going to get one made for ever,but that never happen,anyway I stop cutting the lawn long enough to get the old lock,close the gates and lock them,,go back to cutting my lawn/had to recut a few times over same spots were I could keep a side eye on the briage. After 15 or 20 min. here comes butthead driving his cop car back,I keep cutting lawn but see him stop at the locked closed gate trapping him on the briage ,he shacks hell out of the gate but it don't open,so he goes to his trunk looking for something I think to bust it open with,fines nothing,pulls his gun out,must of though better of writing a report of why he fired his gun and puts it away=after all he was most likely still getting ribbed by the other coppers about having to get 4 tires to get back to the station one nite!,So next he gets back in his cop car and pulls back from the gate,maybe to ram it open? Must of desided the report of how car damage happened would be fuel for the ribbing and did not do that. He then desided to clime over, after a few trys,but by then bull tar and tairs in his unifrom are pretty bad. Drity n sloopy butthead cop sees me still cutting my grass,and comes over n ask if I have a hacksaw or somthing and did I see anyone over near the gate? "Well no,I've just been cutting my Dad's grass today" at about the time he looks harder at me ,he said "What about a hacksaw or a crowbar?" ,I tell'm I think Dads got some tools,I'll look,be right back[so I go inside our backroom shop,Dads got lots great tools,but he don't know that, takes me some time to find the really old bent hacksaw frame and the dullist blade we had,put them together and take it back out side to the cop,he grabs it,not even a thank you! and goes to the gate,its Miami and about 88*,he works over there about 30 or 40 mins before actully some how cutting the lock off with that crapy old saw. Brings it back in his car now,still no thank you,but bitchs at me that he thinks I'm a JD that I probuly had something to do with him getting trapped,he's nearly shoutting this at top of his voice dripping wet with sweet,as my Mom comes out to see what's going on,at that point he jumps into his cop car and speeds off laying rubber . I woulder if the motor pool or he had to clean all the black bull tar off the car seats,I'll bet he did it so there was not a report. Just one more thing had to happen to that butthead cop before he asked all of us at the Big Wheel to back off and he would stop also,I guess even a butthead knows when to holed a white flag up. That had to do with red ants.