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Roadblocks Posted By: zacksmum
Posted On: 06/28/2008
Police and military Road blocks are also a fact of life at the moment.... I need to pass through at least one between home and the family farming business I work in.... One day this week, I had two of my office staff in the car, an old mazda 323, along with Zack - safely I thought strapped into car seat.....( he is off school due to elections this weekend), and our border collie x jack russell puppy..... we get stopped and the policeman asks me if he can search the car... of course I say... where would you like to look... in the trunk the policeman replies... I get out the car, and by the time I get to the trunk Zack is in the driver's seat... pressing the horn.... now I know he can unclip the seat belt!! I look cautiously at the armed army and police officers around... hoping that they are not offended by the noise from the car.... thankfully they dont' appear to worried about it.... the policeman then says he has seen enough (and i breath a sigh of relief... the horn is getting rather insistent!).. the next trick is to get the four year old and the puppy out of the drivers seat..... child has white knuckle grip on the steering wheel, so I have to wrestle him out of there, into his seat... amid very LOUD protests... and put his seat belt back on... then move the puppy of the seat too... After all this... I'm sweating profusely... partly fromt he wrestling match, and partly as am I am little concerned as to how the owners of the weapons are getting on.... the conversation with the policeman then goes something like this:
policeman (shaking his head in disbelief I think "is he always like this"
me: "yes, at the moment he is, he wants to drive the car"
policeman: "you should get him his own toy car"
me: "he already has several, he wants the real thing"
policeman "goodbye, you may carry on"

Two days later.....

We went through the same road block today, with the same policeman on duty... it was just Zack, myself and the puppy this time, we were in a different vehicle too, just to confuse matters. The policeman pulled us over, then recognised Zack.... and says:
"Oh, this is the young man who wants to drive"
The policeman leans into the car, shake's Zack's hand (thankfully Zack obliges with a hand shake and a smile!!)
The policeman then says that we can carry on without being searched!
       
shannonj wrote this reply on 06/28/2008
Sounds like Zack has made a friend---one who might come in handy in the future!.....

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