Spooning after nightfall in automobiles parked on the highways and in the shady lanes of Pasquotank after nightfall is going to be a dangerous pastime this summer, if a recommendation of the Grand Jury in the superior Court of this county last week is carried out by the county commissioners.
The Grand Jury took cognizance of the fact that the position of motorcycle policemen has been ordered abolished after April 1 and asked the county commissioners to restore the motorcycle police and enlarge his powers. The grand jury would have the motorcycle police especially instructed to investigate every darkened automobile fund parked in any suspicious place after nightfall, with a view to locating couples engaged in spooning. The idea is to put an end so far as possible to the use of the automobile in immoral traffic, it being a notorious fact that scores of boys, girls and older people take to the church grounds, river shores and other unfrequented places for illicit spooning in the good old summer time.
Some wag has suggested that the Grand Jury had a grudge against motorcycle policemen and was fixing for some cop to get his head shot off while nosing around and prying into automobiles after dark.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, March 31, 1922
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