The Juggler

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A North Carolina State Trooper pulled a car over on I-40 about 2 miles south of Raleigh. When the trooper asked the driver why he was speeding, the driver said he was a juggler and was on his way to do a show at the Shrine Circus in Dunn. He didn't want to be late.

The trooper told the driver he was fascinated by juggling and said if the driver would do a little juggling for him then he wouldn't give him a ticket. He told the trooper he had sent his equipment ahead and didn't have anything to juggle. The trooper said he had some flares in the trunk and asked if he could juggle them.

The juggler said he could, so the trooper got 5 flares, lit them and handed them to him. While the man was juggling, a car pulled in behind the patrol car. A drunken good old boy traveling from Garner got out, watched the performance, then went over to the patrol car, opened the rear door and got in.

The trooper observed him and went over to the patrol car, opened the door asking the drunk what he thought he was doing. The drunk replied, ?You might as well take my ass to jail, cause there ain't no way in hell I can pass that test.?

[iddee]

Gotta steal that one.It hits home pretty good.

[Michael Bush]

This one makes good sense.  Maybe better than the version I heard, but maybe not quite as colorful.  The version I heard the cop pulls over the juggler and wants to know why he has axes and chainsaws in the back seat.  The guy explains that he juggles them.  The cop says he doesn't want to be a skeptic but he'd like to see some proof of that, so the juggler fires up one of the chainsaws, gets one of the axes and a bowling ball and starts to juggle all three.  Then the drunk pulls over... etc.

[BeeMaster2]