--- title: Michigan State Police Celebrate 'Back to the Future' Day description: Whoever runs the troopers' Facebook page has a culturally relevant sense of humor canonical: https://time.com/4082288/michigan-state-police-back-to-the-future/ author: Lucy Wang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-21T21:00:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:58:54.595Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Michigan State Police Celebrate 'Back to the Future' Day og:description: Whoever runs the Facebook page has a culturally relevant sense of humor og:url: https://time.com/4082288/michigan-state-police-back-to-the-future/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdbeaebb1c932803/698868ee5f570f0acfb1de9d/back-to-the-future.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Back to the Future Part II og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Michigan State Police Celebrate 'Back to the Future' Day twitter:description: Whoever runs the Facebook page has a culturally relevant sense of humor twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdbeaebb1c932803/698868ee5f570f0acfb1de9d/back-to-the-future.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Michigan State Police Celebrated _Back to the Future_ Day In the Best Way Possible by [Lucy Wang](https://time.com/author/lucy-wang/) ## Lucy Wang Oct 21, 2015 9:00 PM UTC  Universal by [Lucy Wang](https://time.com/author/lucy-wang/) ## Lucy Wang Oct 21, 2015 9:00 PM UTC From [Toyota](http://time.com/4082072/toyota-mirai/) to [Pepsi](https://twitter.com/pepsi/status/656533720652980226), brands and organizations the world over are celebrating [_Back to the Future_ Day](http://time.com/4078798/back-to-the-future-day/). But the Michigan State Police may have one-upped them all. In a [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/MichiganStatePolice/posts/10153778975512216:0), the troopers reference the iconic scene in 1989’s _Back to the Future II_ in which Marty McFly and Doc Brown jump ahead to Oct. 21, 2015 in their time-traveling DeLorean. “Michigan State Police troopers stopped a silver DeLorean today for driving 88 mph in a 55 mph zone,” the post reads, referencing the necessary speed at which the car can time-travel. “The two occupants, Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly, were given a verbal warning to drive more safely on Michigan roads. Doc Brown’s response, according to the police? [“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flge%5Frw6RG0) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4082288/michigan-state-police-back-to-the-future/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4082288/michigan-state-police-back-to-the-future/"},"headline":"Michigan State Police Celebrated Back to the Future Day In the Best Way Possible","datePublished":"2015-10-21T21:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:58:54.595Z","description":"Whoever runs the troopers' Facebook page has a culturally relevant sense of humor","url":"https://time.com/4082288/michigan-state-police-back-to-the-future/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdbeaebb1c932803/698868ee5f570f0acfb1de9d/back-to-the-future.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lucy Wang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lucy-wang/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdbeaebb1c932803/698868ee5f570f0acfb1de9d/back-to-the-future.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Back to the Future Part II","caption":"Back to the Future Part II","creditText":"Universal","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4082288/michigan-state-police-back-to-the-future/","name":"Michigan State Police Celebrated Back to the Future Day In the Best Way Possible"}}]}] ```