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"I Ain't Lying
Officer"
by N. Ray Maxie |
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A
long time friend of mine and once a mainline East Texas Baptist preacher,
now retired to the picturesque Texas Hill Country, recently told me
this little story. He told it as the total gospel truth and this is
one man I have never known to lie. I believe it.
It seems one of this country's greatest, the noble, most humble provider
of food and fiber, an American farmer had been in a very serious highway
automobile wreck. He was now, at the opening of this story, sitting
in a courtroom on the witness stand being questioned by a local "tusk-hog"
lawyer.
The lawyer said, "Sir, this report I'm holding in my hand says that
you told the highway patrolman on the scene that you weren't injured
in this wreck. What's the deal? Now you are claiming multiple injuries.
Is that correct?"
The farmer replied, "I loaded Dixie my mule in the trailer and went
out my driveway with her…...." The lawyer interrupts and says, "Judge,
please instruct the witness to answer the question." The judge says,
"Sir, please answer the question."
The farmer replied again, "I loaded Dixie my mule in the trailer and
went out my driveway with her…...." The lawyer interrupts again and
repeated, "Judge, please instruct the witness to answer the question."
The judge says, Sir, I'm telling you for the last time to answer the
question."
The farmer replied again, "I loaded Dixie my mule in the trailer and……."
By this time the judge himself was getting pretty interested in the
farmer's story and told him, "Just go ahead and tell your story."
The farmer says, "I loaded Dixie my mule in the trailer and went out
my driveway with her, out there to the main highway. We went down
the highway to the first big intersection. Then as we passed along
through the intersection, a big 18-wheeler came barreling through
there, ran the stop sign and hit me and Dixie mighty hard. It busted
us up and knocked us down the road sideways. Dixie landed in the ditch
on one side of the road and I was laying in the ditch on the other
side."
"I was awfully broken up and bleeding, most miserable and I know Dixie
was probably suffering severely too, worse off than I was."
"After a while a highway patrolman came along. I saw him over there
looking at Dixie. He took one look at her and then he pulled out his
pistol and shot her right between the eyes."
"He then came across the road and asked how I was doing." |
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