A Very ‘Statie’ Motorcycle Christmas Tale
In this motorcycle Christmas tale, originally published in the December 2021 issue of Rider, contributor Scott A. Williams relates the story of being cut off my a Massachusetts State Trooper and getting a surprising gift in return.
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It was one of those Christmases where family was in far-flung locations. With just my wife, daughter, and me at home, important holiday obligations were addressed by early afternoon. The sun burned in an azure sky as the temperature rose into the 50s ? rare for late December in Massachusetts ? and your humble scribe was getting antsy.
?Go take a ride,? my wife insisted. ?We?re going to bake cookies and you?ll be in the way. Get out of here.?
Making a plan as I rode along, I headed west over the Connecticut River toward the hill towns for fun roads, blissfully free of traffic. I calculated that I?d have time to reach Huntington before turning north for a ways, and then back east to make it home before dark.
Riding on U.S. Route 20 through the outskirts of Westfield, I spied a statie stopped at an intersection on the left, just ahead. (?Statie? is what Massachusetts natives call our state troopers.) Ideally, he?d be turning right, back toward the city, but without warning the cruiser cut in front of me. I hit the brakes ? hard ? and delivered a bwaaaa! from my bike?s air horn. Hey, hey, hey, I?m riding here! Inside my helmet I uttered words I do not recommend saying to a police of...
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