by Jeff Skinner
Whenever I travel around on these golf junkets I always try and take notice of the local law enforcement and state troopers. Hey, it’s just good to know what these uys drive, just in case. The North Carolina Highway Patrol drive silver Dodge Chargers and like their unmarked blue SUV’s. And they are doing a great job on traffic down here if you ask me.
But I am sure there is one driver who woke up this morning wishing he had paid better attention to where those troopers hang out. One was hanging out near NBC’s golf analyst Roger Maltbie’s golf cart yesterday when the driver brushed him with the cart. As the trooper hollered for him to stop he kept driving. Then it got messy. Here’s Jeff Rude’s report on the incident.
The officer was upset because, according to him, the driver ran over his foot when leaving the tee area. The cop then chased after the cart on sandy surface just outside the gallery ropes while yelling, “Stop! Stop!” and “Come back here.”
He finally caught up, climbed onto the back of the cart and put his arms around the driver’s neck and shoulders from behind. As Maltbie came over to try to help his friend and colleague, whose name he wouldn’t divulge, the patrolman handcuffed the man from behind and arrested him.
“This is a new one,” Maltbie said walking down the 11th fairway. “I’ve been to a couple of rodeos and a county fair and I’ve never had this happen.”
Police said the driver was in the Moore County Jail on Saturday night in nearby Carthage.
The lesson here: know where the state troopers are.
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