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Show Flying - 80 flying fuck for yourself, sonny' and she takes off. Almost run over my foot." "Did you get her license number?" says the cop. John Henry is impressed. Hard, that's what these old pioneer women are, hard as the land. "You're lucky," says the cop. "Last year a truck driver stepped around in front of the car to try and stop her. She run right over him." "Last year?" says the driver. "You mean you know her? She's done this before?" He comes from New Jersey, where things are better regulated. "We call her Black Gert," says the cop. "She gets about four or five trucks a year, usually between Tombstone and Tucson." Armstrong, who is a rational man, can't believe it. "You mean she's been doing this regularly and you haven't put her in jail?" "Not that easy," says the cop. "She uses stolen cars, false license plates, all sorts of tricks. There's a lot of space out there to disappear in. She always does it the same way, though. Cuts in front of a truck and slams on the brakes. Always figures the truckers'11 go off the road rather than hit her. They always do, too." "What happens if one chooses to hit her instead?" says Wilberforce. |