26. That Time During the Cold War When A Drunk KGB Agent Got Over a Hundred of His Fellow Spies Expelled From Britain
In the early morning hours of August 31st, 1971, London bobby Charles Shearer saw a car swerving all over the road, and pulled it over. Soon as it stopped, a blond woman opened the passenger door, exited the vehicle, and bolted off into the dark of night. Behind the wheel was a heavily inebriated driver with a thick foreign accent, who staggered out of the car with a bad attitude, and an inability to walk straight. So officer Shearer put him in cuffs and placed him in the back of his squad car to take him to the station.
En route, the arrested driver stretched out his legs and placed them on the back of Shearer’s shoulders. The bobby turned around and said: “What are you playing at? Take your feet off the back of my seat!” The drunk replied: “You cannot talk to me. You cannot beat me. I am a KGB officer”. Drunks say all kinds of things, and this wasn’t the strangest thing that officer Shearer had heard, so he did not put much credence in it. As seen below, however, this particular drunk was not lying.