Jim147 related:
"I'm one of those people with over a quarter mile driveway. If someone turns in my drive at night and turns the lights off it is normally a state trooper running radar and looking for drunken cowboys. Running up to him or her might not end well."
Heh. Late 1970s. My farm about 2AM, two miles out of town, woke up to the sound of a car on the gravel in the driveway. Could not see the car from my bedroom window. Grabbed my bedroom shotgun (BRSG) and rushed downstairs and looked out the window to see it was a Highway Patrol car. Leaned BRSG against the wall and went outside.
Nobody in patrol car. Nobody in barnyard parking area. WTF?
We had indoor plumbing, but the place still had a WPA (Works Progress Administration) one-hole outhouse, which we (I) rarely used, near another outbuilding.
Noticed some light coming out of the outhouse cracks, then the door opened and a Trooper came out with his flashlight. Shined it on me.
Upshot: Previous owner had given him permission to use the outhouse if need be, had never told me about it. Pleasant conversation, "Any time you need to stop, go ahead." Next day I put fresh TP and a flashlight out there.
Sidelight. One day I noticed the "2 X 4"s looked big. Measured them. They were an actual two inches by an actual four inches. Amazing.
Terry
REF (WPA. Article doesn't mention a lot of private projects, which constituted part of the "boondoggle." I won't tell anybody if you won't):
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/works-progress-administrationThe barnyard with my LTD out there. Outhouse does not appear in this pic.