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unusual facts about trooper


Herman Albrecht

Albrecht was about 24 years old, and a Trooper in the Imperial Light Horse (Natal), South African Forces during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.


A Dangerous Man

Fearing that the cops will implicate him in the death of the trooper and knowing that the Chinese national will return with back-up, Shane takes the girl, the cash, and Sergey into the nearest small town, which is called Bellingham.

Armored Trooper Votoms

Armored Trooperoid Votoms Finder (ボトムズファインダー), an "alternate universe" OAV that centers around Aki Tesuno, a Bottoms guard for scrap salvagers and a pilot of a robotic mecha called an At or Altro (as opposed to VOTOMS' trademark Armored Trooper mecha).

Armored Trooper VOTOMS Case;Irvine (ケース;アービン), an OAV that follows the story of Irvine Lester, a repairer of the tank-like robotic Armored Trooper (AT) mecha in the VOTOMS story world.

Aron Eli Coleite

In 2012, Coleite had a pilot called Trooper set up at TNT, which starred Mira Sorvino as an unconventional state trooper and was executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Banned from Television

In Lincoln, Maine, trooper Stephen Murray tries to issue an angry male driver a speeding ticket.

Brian Balthazar

Balthazar was born Brian Balthaser in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, the son of Theresa (née Dean) and Harrison F. Balthaser, a state trooper.

Candles on Bay Street

She is dying of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and is searching for someone to take care of her son Trooper (Matthew Knight) after she is gone.

Charles Thomas Wooldridge

Charles Thomas Wooldridge (c.1866 – 7 July 1896) was a Trooper in the Royal Horse Guards who was executed in Reading Gaol for the murder of his wife and who, as 'C.T.W', was the dedicatee of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Christian Davies

Christian Davies (1667 – 7 July 1739), born Christian Cavanagh, was a trooper and later a sutler for the 4th Dragoons, later the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons.

Cornwall, Ontario

Performers have included Collective Soul, Trooper, Tom Cochrane, April Wine, Sass Jordan, Glass Tiger, Dennis DeYoung, Chantal Kreviazuk, Theory of a Deadman, Kim Mitchell & Max Webster guitarist, Peter Fredette, Finger Eleven, Amanda Marshall, Our Lady Peace, and Marianas Trench.

Glen Woodall

Samples of his blood were sent to the state crime lab and were matched by Trooper Fred Zain.

Grafton State Hospital

In 1957, noted Jazz musician Thelonious Monk was briefly held for observation at the Grafton State Hospital after a State Trooper found him at Logan Airport acting erratically and then becoming unresponsive to questioning.

Greg Trooper

2002 saw the release of Trooper’s first live record Between A House And A Hard Place – Live At Pine Hill Farm with Eric “Roscoe” Ambel at the controls.

Hampton, Ontario

In 1982 an episode of The Littlest Hobo, titled "Trooper" was filmed in Hampton, Ontario.

Immune to Murder

Other members of the cast (in credits order) include David Schurmann (O.V. Bragan), Robert Bockstael (David Leeson), Carlo Rota (Spiros Papps), Susannah Hoffmann (Sally Leeson), Giancarlo Esposito (Ambassador Theodore Kelefy), Seymour Cassel (James Arthur Ferris), Manon von Gerkan (Adria Kelefy), George Plimpton (Cook), Richard Waugh (Capt. Jasper Colvin), Matthew Edison (Nate the Trooper) and Steve Cumyn (D.A. Herman Jasper).

James Fowler

James Bonard Fowler (born 1933), Alabama State Trooper convicted of shooting unarmed civil rights protestor Jimmie Lee Jackson

James Orange

In 2007, a former trooper named James B. Fowler, 74, was indicted for the death of Jackson.

Jase Bolger

Because of his father's job as a Michigan State Police trooper, the family moved around the state often, before settling in Charlotte, Michigan when Jase entered first grade.

Joe Denning

While serving as a Kentucky State Police trooper, he became the first black ever elected to public office in Bowling Green and Warren County as member of the Bowling Green School Board in 1975.

John Bisdee

:On 1 September 1900 near Warm Bad, Transvaal, South Africa, Trooper Bisdee was one of an advance scouting party passing through a narrow gorge, when the enemy suddenly opened fire at close range and six out of the party of eight were wounded, including two officers.

Kaiju Big Battel

The first Battel occurred on Halloween night in 1996 at the Revolving Museum in Boston and featured Midori No Kaiju, as well as Atomic Cannon, Powa Ranjuru, Force Trooper Robo, Taro "The Mouth" Fuji's commentary, and Anthony Salbino's construction.

Lionel Tate

Tate's mother, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, and the defense had turned down a plea bargain arrangement which would have allowed Tate to serve a three-year term for second-degree murder in a youth facility followed by 10 years' probation but instead, his mother insisted on going to trial in hopes of an acquittal.

March of Cambreadth

Because of his Celtic tune and his use of bagpipes, March of Cambreadth was taken by the supporters of the Gaunt's Ghosts saga and used in fanon for the battle hymn of the "Tanith First-and-Only", sung by the trooper Brin Milo to encourage and motivate his companions in the hellish battlefields of the 41st Millennium (Warhammer 40,000).

Mattawa, Ontario

Live music is a large part of the Festival, and has in the past included such notable Canadian musicians as April Wine, Trooper, Saga, Loverboy, Honeymoon Suite, Chuck Labelle, David Wilcox, Peter Frampton, Heart and Tom Cochrane.

Mike Flicker

Flicker established himself as a major independent producer with artists that included Poco, Al Stewart, Randy Meisner, Nantucket, Wendy Waldman and Trooper, one of the five top-selling Canadian bands of all time.

Mitsubishi Pajero

In the 4th episodes of the first season of World's Wildest Police Videos and some other police video shows, an angered real life owner of a red Dodge Raider argued caustically with a state trooper after being stopped for a speeding ticket, of which he ripped up the ticket after hearing the price of the ticket costing around $150, then he argued about a situation with his wife being the one paying the insurance of his car.

New Jersey State Police

In the 2009 movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Kevin James plays a mall Security Guard who dreams to become a New Jersey State Trooper.

Peter Bray

The former member of the British Army's Special Air Service Boat Trooper was aiming to raise £100,000 for two children's hospices.

Rhode Island State Police

The RISP features prominently in the comedy film Me, Myself and Irene released in 2000, with Jim Carrey playing a state trooper affected with multiple personality disorder.

Sky Trooper

Sky Trooper is a 1942 animated cartoon by Walt Disney Studios starring Donald Duck during the World War II years.

Star Wars: Dark Forces

His investigation reveals the Imperial Dark Trooper project, led by General Rom Mohc (Jack Angel).

Tan beret

69 Commando of the Royal Malaysia Police adopted the tan beret as part of their uniform after the beret was conferred by the United Kingdom's 22 SAS to the founding members of 69 Commando (also known as VAT 69 - Very Able Trooper 69) after completing SAS training in 1969.

The Yes Album

According to Alice Cooper on his radio show Nights with Alice Cooper, Anderson claimed to have written the first two movements of "Starship Trooper" alone, though the "Disillusion" movement (which evolved from an earlier song "For Everyone", heard on Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–1970 and The Word Is Live) is credited to Chris Squire.

United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency

According to testimony adduced at trial, Gonzalez was driving west on Interstate 80 in a rented Ford Taurus when a Nebraska State Patrol Trooper, Chris Bigsby, stopped Gonzalez for exceeding the posted speed limit.

Uniting Nations

Danny Choo used Uniting Nation's Ai no Corrida in his Tokyo Dance Trooper video shot in Shibuya, Tokyo

William D. Foster

In 1915, however, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company came into being, building on Foster's groundwork to produce various films including The Realization of a Negro's Ambition in 1916 and The Trooper of Company K in 1917.


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