Sitting along an Upper Peninsula highway waiting to catch speeders, a Michigan State Police officer saw a car puttering along at 28 M.P.H. He thought to himself, "That car is just as dangerous as a speeder."

So, he turned his lights on and pulled the car over. Approaching the vehicle, he noticed there were 5 elderly ladies, two in the front and 3 in the back, wide eyed and looking like ghosts.

The driver was obviously confused. She said, "Officer, I don't understand, I wasn't going over the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?"

"Ma'am," the officer said, "you should know that driving well under the speed limit can also be dangerous.”

"Under the speed limit? NO SIR! I was doing exactly 28 miles an hour," the old woman said proudly.

The officer, holding back a chuckle, explained that 28 was the highway route number, not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned, thanking the officer for pointing out her error.

"Before I go Ma'am, I have to ask, is everyone OK? These women seem badly shaken and haven't uttered a word all this time.”
"Oh! they’ll be alright in a minute. We just got off Route 129.”

Must have been sitting in that one place on the north side of M-28 facing east bound traffic between Seney and Shingleton. Used to be a parallel dirt two track partially wooded by a small bar there that the MSP used to run radar on that stretch of highway.

As a teen, on the way back from my first trip to Kings Dominion I witnessed the mother of a friend use that logic on a Virginia State Trooper that pulled her over doing 95 mph on I-95N, near Fredericksburg.

He walked away slowly shaking his head, after explaining that was the route number, not the speed limit.

What made it all the more memorable was the fact she drove a street legal pro-stock equipped 1972 Dodge Monaco with a stroked RB 440 cu engine.

It hauled ass.

Great Tune! Have not heard that one in many years !

Good stuff!