[BipolarBob]

The names have been changed to protect the . . . . oh nevermind.

[ErnBatavia]

I ran out of gas very early one morning years ago about 5 miles short of Grants, New Mexico....an old Indian couple picked me up and took me to town.

Hitch hiking back, a car with two guys stopped for me; I noticed that both were unshaven and pretty scrungy looking, and we were already up to speed when I noticed weapons all around the car.

Turns out they were state cops on the way to work; they stopped again - all bright and shiny and cleaned up in their patrol car about an hour later to assist me getting the VW primed (I'd run out of fuel and was parked on a hill making it difficult to get the gas pumping right).

[Ben Reyes]

...to protect the ignorant?