Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Returning from a trip to visit my grandmother in Canada, I was stopped by a state trooper in New York for exceeding the speed limit. Grateful to have received a warning instead of a ticket, I gave him a small bag of my grandmother’s delicious chocolate chip cookies and proceeded on my way. Later, I…

A US Border Patrol Agent catches an illegal alien in the bushes right by the border fence, he pulls him out and says, “Sorry, you know the law, you’ve got to go back across the border right now.” The Mexican man pleads with them, “No, noooo Señor, I must stay in de USA! Pleeeze!” The…

The inmate on death row was scheduled to be put to death by firing squad the follow morning. Throughout the day, the prison guards were being very nice to him. But when they asked him if he wanted something specific for his last meal, he didn’t want anything special. When they asked if there was…

A man has too much to drink at a party. His friends offer to drive him home, but the says no–he only lives a mile away. About five blocks from the party, the police pull him over for weaving and ask him to get out of the car and walk the line. Just as he…

Her car was speeding along Interstate 80 at well over 80 miles an hour when it passed by a State Trooper’s position… Obviously, the officer was compelled to pull the young female driver over and he asked to see her license. After looking it over, he said to her, “It stipulates here on your license…

The following exchanges are taken from transcripts of 911 calls.