A teenage boy  and CHP Officer Olegario Marin laugh at the boys ‘ attempts to walk a straight line with a helmet that simulates drunken driving. The boy had been trying to plot a cycle through a course but hit a cone and got “pulled over.” (Frank Hartzell via Bay City News)

FORT BRAGG, 8/4/23 —

California Highway Patrol Officer Olegario Marin watched Fort Bragg area middle school students try to drive trikes through a course of cones, while a mob of friends cheered them on. Most hit the cones, resulting in Officer Marin “pulling them over” for a sobriety check.

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Frank Hartzell is a freelancer reporter and an occasional correspondent for The Mendocino Voice. He has published more than 10,000 news articles since his first job in Houston in 1986. He is the recipient...