This is just the opposite of what happened to me and my family back in the winter of 1996 when we were moving from Pensacola Florida to Oklahoma City. There was a cold streak down south, just like now. We were in our 1991 Mazda MVP, pulling a trailer hauling my 1965 Mustang. Making a PCS move from NAS Pensacola to Tinker AFB. My van broke down along interstate 10 in Mississippi around 4:00 pm. By the time it started to get dark, and much colder, nobody had stopped to help us. Finally around 7 pm a Mississippi Hwy Patrolman stopped and helped us. He took my son to a U-haul place to rent a truck while I stayed behind to watch my mustang and family. It was really cold and shortly another MHP stopped and let my wife and two other kids and me sit in his patrol car with the heater running. When my son returned with the U-haul, both cops insisted on helping us unload the van and put our stuff in the u haul. I tried to talk them out of it, but they insisted. I told them I had a chitload of rifles and handguns in the back of the van, including several tactical rifles, and they just laughed and said "so what? This is America!"
Well they escorted us to a hotel down the road where we stayed for the night. I tried to buy their dinner, but they wouldn't hear of it. The next day I got a tow truck to pick up my van and take it to the local Mazda dealer.
When we reached Oklahoma, I wrote a letter to the editor of the Picayune Times as well as to the MHP thanking these exemplary officers for a job well done. The editor of the paper sent me a copy of the paper in the mail. So there are good and bad cops. I'm guessing there are a lot more good ones.
