NWCN.com | News for NW Cable News | Nation/World //start quote///By DONNIE JOHNSTON / The Free Lance-Star
WARRENTON, Va. — This story is hard to write without some whistling in the background and a freckled-faced, barefoot boy with a fishing pole throwing a rock into Myers Lake.
To get yourself in the proper frame of mind, first picture that opening scene from "The Andy Griffith Show" and then recall Gomer Pyle screaming "Citizen's arrest!" as Deputy Barney Fife makes an illegal U-turn on Main Street in Mayberry, N.C.
Finally, fantasize that you are actually behind the wheel of a black-and-white police cruiser ("This baby's a real emergency vehicle!") like the one America's best-loved deputy sheriff was driving in that classic episode.
Ricky Brown doesn't need to fantasize. All the Warrenton man has
to do is go into his garage, open the car door and crank the engine....
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