Crime & Safety
State Cops Have Fun with 'Back to the Future' Blast
It's Back to the Future Day, and a post by the Michigan State Police shows cops have a sense of humor, too.
This. Is. Awesome.
The Michigan State Police may just win the Internet.
As social media goes wild over Back to the Future Day — the day in the time-travel comedy “Back to the Future II” that Marty McFly and Doc Brown leave 1985 and travel to Oct. 21, 2015, to save Marty’s yet-to-be born children — state troopers weren’t about to be left out.
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A post on the MSP Facebook page depicts a patrol cruiser and a DeLorean, the car that became a time travel machine in the “Back to the Future” movies, along with this text:
“Michigan State Police troopers stopped a silver DeLorean today for driving 88 mph in a 55 mph zone. The two occupants, Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly, were given a verbal warning to drive more safely on Michigan roads. Dr. Emmett Brown responded by saying, ‘Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.’ ”
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The Michigan police didn’t weigh in on whether the Cubs will win the World Series.
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