Burt Coffman of Equality shared this old newspaper clipping of his dad, Gordon Faulkner (right), and A. A. Peacock, both Birmingham police officers. Coffman shared that his dad was a Birmingham police officer for 31 years and loved to fish the Coosa River. The clipping is from the October 4, 1957, edition of “The Birmingham Post Herald” and shows Faulkner and Peacock with 20 large and small mouth bass weighing 30 pounds. The fish were caught at Sanford’s Camp on the Coosa River, with the two men being in a boat on Waxahatchee Creek above Lay Dam. The tongue-in-cheek clipping referenced the officers working in plain clothes when they apprehended the 20 “elusive slickers” who were attempting to steal their fishing lures.
