If you're traveling in Muncie, Indiana, and a cop pulls you over, and that cop looks a lot like Ponch from CHiPS ... well, that officer just might actually be Ponch:

Former TV cop Erik Estrada has become a real-life officer after a reality TV flop gave him a new career option.

The CHipS star was among the celebrities who took part in short-lived show Armed + Dangerous, where he and LaToya Jackson, among others, trained to become police reserves in Indiana. And the experience fired up Estrada, who is now officially an officer on the Muncie Police Department.

I'm kinda at a loss to say exactly why, but I think that's extremely cool.

I think Angie Dickinson should become a cop, now, too. And that Lee Majors should be horribly mutilated in some sort of test flight gone wrong, and that his mangled limbs should be replaced by high-powered bionic limbs that make a neat "yangYANGyangYANGyang" sound when he uses them.

And I think that Lynda Carter should always dress just like this, and she should never age beyond whatever age she is in this clip:

I'd like all of these things done by the time I wake up in the morning... so, you guys need to get on it right away.

Barring that, I will settle for Erik Estrada being a real cop for now.

Oh, and a sidenote to today's twenty-somethings: My generation's tall, silly, well built brunette was WAY HOTTER than your generation's tall, silly, well built brunette. No contest, man.

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