Montana Highway Patrol

Montana Highway Patrolman pulled a car over on I-15 about 40 miles south
of Great Falls.

When the Patrolman asked the driver why he was speeding, the driver
answered that he was a Shrine Clown with a specialty as a magician and
juggler and he was on his way to Spokane to do a show that night at the
Shrine Hospital and didn't want to be late.

The Patrolman told the driver he was fascinated by juggling, and if the
driver would do a little juggling for him that he wouldn't give him a
ticket.

The driver told the Patrolman that he had sent all of his equipment on
ahead and didn't have anything to juggle.

The Patrolman told him that he had some flares in the trunk of his patrol
car and asked if he could juggle them. The juggler stated that he could,
so the Patrolman got three flares, lit them and handed them to the
juggler.

While the man was doing his juggling act, a car pulled in behind the
patrol car, a drunk good old boy from Butte, who had spent the day
visiting various establishments on the way to Havre, got out and watched
the performance briefly, he then went over to the patrol car, opened the
rear door and got in. The Patrolman observed him doing this and went over
to the patrol car, opened the door and asked the rather "well oiled"
fellow what he thought he was doing.

The drunk replied, "You might as well take me to jail, 'cause there's no
way in hell I can pass that test."