Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a police officer clocked a car puttering along at 27 kilometres an hour.
A typical clue that it's a defective car or a drunk driver behind the wheel, he turned on his lights and pulled the driver over.
Approaching the car, he noticed that it is full of old ladies, two in the front and three in the back...wide-eyed and white as ghosts.
The driver, obviously confused, said to him "Officer, I don't understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What is the problem?"
The car was new, and purred like a kitten. The driver showed no signs of having been drinking.
"Ma'am," the officer replied, "you weren't speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers."
"Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly...Twenty-seven kilometres an hour!".she said.
The officer, trying to contain a chuckle, explained to her that 27 is the highway number, not the speed limit.
A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned and thanked the officer for pointing out her error.
He said, "Before I let you go, Ma'am, I have to ask...Is everyone in this car OK? Your friends seem awfully shaken, and they haven't made a peep this whole time."
"Oh, they'll be all right in a minute, officer. We just got off Highway 189."