Several years ago while a Utah Highway Patrolman, I was working an evening shift in Rich County. There are no intersection lights anywhere, in any of the cities, in this small rural community.

As I sat off the side of the road in a marked car at the summit of Laketown Canyon, a car pulled off the road and stopped behind me, with it’s headlights and engine still on. When the driver didn’t immediately exit the car, I went back to determine the driver’s intent and to insure my safety. I asked the driver why he had stopped.

He replied: “I’m just waiting for the light to change officer.”

I arrested him for driving under the influence.

During the same years as a UHP Trooper, one evening after dark I was patrolling a canyon road. As I came around the corner I saw a car stopped in the middle of the highway. The engine was running, the headlights and interior lights were all on, and all four doors were open. The driver was standing on the roof. I inquired what the problem was. The driver said he was trying to get away from the skunk in his car. There was no skunk - or smell - in his car.

I brought him down off the roof and arrested him for driving under the influence.