Semi gets cut off, dumps beer on state trooper in Las Vegas

Wednesday evening, Nevada State Trooper Travis Smaka pulled over a car on the shoulder of a Las Vegas highway and asked: “You guys have anything to drink tonight?”


He barely got the words out of his mouth, when he heard the loud sound of a big rig slamming on its brakes. That’s when the beer came, hurling towards him in a flood of broken bottles and cans.

Smacka turned around, and did a little dance, and managed to avoid injury. He did, however, have to send his uniform to the dry cleaners.

“When you watch the video, it is a little amusing but at the same time, sends a serious reminder of what happens on the freeway when people do cut in front of semis,” said Trooper Jason Buratczuk.

This just so happened to take place on the same week that state troopers are riding along in big rigs to try to catch vehicles cutting off or otherwise driving unsafely around tractor-trailers. Read about Nebraska State Patrol’s “Trooper in a Truck” program here.

The night, it seems, was not without a sense of irony.

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