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The guy comes out from the coffee shop.... "Excuse me, just what exactly are you doing?!"
"Oh, well, your advertising was mis-spelled. I was just fixing it for you!"
Think you misspelled "misspelled." This is only for humor's sake. No criticism-just a little humor...
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
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Thanks for the link to the other discussion, Kirstie!
All of the posters, subsequent to my last post are right on with what you presented.
There are always the few that make the majority become tainted. Ergo, professional and personal responsibility linked to values are what the majority of my fellow officers tried to convey. And I am sure its the same in your home as well as your profession.
And this is not limited to law enforcement as our Congressional leaders, Executive leaders and (fill in here) are seemingly devoid/lack honesty and professionalism which to me, continues to be an issue, JMO. "To thine own self be true".
And that officer's wife with the accident (hit and run) JMO, should have been identitifed and followed up. I knew of several instances where judges were "retired". Never anything in the papers, ect. He was just gone.
I wonder how that Governor and his driver are going to do to when it appears, I guess thru accident reconstruction) that they were going 91 w/o seat belts. How do they explain it?
They must have had guardian angels riding along because they both honestly should have been dead. But then they may never recover too.
Ruking, xwestx, et al thks for your imput. And thank you for your courtesy.
Good luck to all and stay safe.
jensad
No kidding, there! I hear people talk about how they had an accident once where they were thrown from the vehicle before it ended up being destroyed by blah blah and if they had not been thrown then they would be dead. Now they never wear belts because "seatbelts kill." Um... right. No, that is called being extremely fortunate. But, it is their life and their choice. *shrugs*
I just found out on Saturday that I have a soon-to-be... step-sister?... who has been a dispatcher for OSP for several years and is sitting for her trooper exam this week. I hope she does a great job!
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
A moose walked in front of me last night just north of Cantwell on the way back up from Anchorage. I was traveling at 70 (in a 65); the brakes worked fine, but I am glad I was not going any faster.
So since I knew that we wouldn't make it when traffic started to move forward I just took my foot off the brake and just tapped the gas to get going and just slowly moved forward. No need wasting nearly $3/gallon gas to get stopped behind the car in front of me 30 second sooner.
Well when there was the gap between me and the car in front of me a pickup truck that was following me decided to just pass me up. A sedan right behind him did the same thing. Just as they both settled in front of me the sedan exploded it the most lovely display of red and blue lights.
They ended up having a nice little talk on the side of the road with everyone passing them.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
But in Ohio marked cars are required for traffic enforcement. I believe that is still interpreted as needing a visible Christmas tree. That means many of the aggressive dangerous drivers don't do things in front of police cars that they would normally do if there were no marked cars around.
I'm all in favor of unmarked cars as long as they are used with discretion.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
This is a different wooded road. Although they do connect at one point.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
A moose? Wow, haven't seen any of those in the Cantwell area our past few drives to Anchorage. We have seen TONS of caribou, first time we had to dodge a herd of 30 or so in the highway, was just about that bad last week too. I'm heading to Wasilla tomorrow hauling our horse trailer, hopefully don't see any of the little coat racks in the road!
I think this is going to be one of those bumper years for hares before they have another population crash. I remember in 2003 that there were so many they literally lined the road along the flats by Anderson/Clear and Nenana. It was quite amazing, really. Reminded me of a bad B horror movie I saw a couple decades ago....
Oh, hahaha! And of all the crazy animals to see crossing a road, I saw a beaver crossing the Johansen Expy right there at Danby on Thursday night. I was able to stop for it, but it was dawdling along so slowly I thought for sure it would be hit. I put my hazards on and waited for it to get into the median, so I can only guess whether it crossed the other side safely. It was about midnight, so at least traffic was very light.
An aside to the Alaskan folks, I spent two years in the mid seventies at Ft. Rich and the time spent in Alaska was the high point of my enlistment. Breathtakingly beautiful country.
Strange though to see moose pellets for sale.
Above is the Yahoo version.
I would think that with that much damage it will be a year before it is back to "normal" (which is a mis nomer on that roadway).
Glad no one got killed.
Remember the 89 earthquake that destroyed the old double decked freeway, aka Nimitz, and there lost lives.
We also had a gas tanker catch fire in the Caldecott, sp, Tunnel in the 1980s. Killed several and it really scorched the walls. The tunnel is about 2 miles from this accident.
I think what destroyed this section today was the steel and other metal supports to the cement roadway melted under the weight. Just a guess.
Makes me appreciate being alive and retired.
Good luck to all and stay safe.
jensad
What? Fuel driven fires don't get hot enough to melt metal supports there must have been thermite used....wait, sorry wrong forum
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Rosie O'donald says that it is not possible for fire to melt steel. I'd be checking on the whereabouts of George Bush at the time.
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>George Bush
At least we didn't find Ron Brown's body in the truck cab. Someone should point that out to Rosie.
I didn't realize she was an engineer. Among all the adjectives I can think of to apply to her, that's not one.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
rightmost lane when it is available and there is no other traffic within 0.25 or 0.5 miles.
Meanwhile, thse other drivers find it inconsiderate when I pass them on the right, when they are in the middle lane of a 3-lane. (I don't do this in NJ, i'll just line up my front wheels with the car-in-left-lane, and "lock" my speed onto theirs. T his seems to freak out some of those left-lane-hog drivers. I consider it to be not-passing, as long as my car's front wheels don't go ahead of the front wheels of any car-in-lane-anywhere-to-the-left. I'm not sure if the law agrees with me on that - maybe I'll check that with the NJ governor & his driver).
Most/all states where I drive have a law requiring folks to keep right if the right lane(s) is/are available, but this law is rarely enforced. To the contrary, passing on the right where legal or even where *required* can result in getting pulled over! Oh well.
"Trucker's troubled past has no bar to haul gas: lawmaker outraged" by Leslie Griffy, Mike Zapler and Jim Smith, pg. 1A, May 1, 2007 San Jose Mercury News.
This is the same phenomenon (fuel fire -> melting metal -> structural collapse) that brought down the twin towers on 9/11.
We had a thread here about this not too long ago.
I was actually under the impression for much of my life that passing on the right (say, on the highway where you have multiple lanes) was illegal. Turns out that in all the states represented by people who posted on the subject here, at least, it's perfectly legal, as long as you don't leave the marked lane (like using the shoulder).
This doesn't change the fact that people are legally required to "keep right except for passing," although as you said, this is rarely enforced. But at least it's legal to use whichever lane is open to get around the selfish/clueless sorts who hang out in the left lane.
Unless there are states where this is not the case?
I got to be straight with ya, I WASN't at the grassy knoll.
The impact stopped the Focus dead in its tracks. I saw the airbag go off, but I swear it looked like it went off late. Meanwhile the 4-runner got spun around off to the side and ended up facing the direction from which it had been coming. An older guy in a Ford conversion van was pulling up to the stop sign over there, and if he had been just a moment sooner, the 4-runner would've probably hit him.
I pulled my car out of the way to a safe spot, got out, and ran and checked to see if everyone was okay, while the guy in the conversion van was already talking to an emergency dispatcher on his cell phone.
Fortunately, everybody seemed okay, just shaken up. A cop going by stopped and started doing his report, and a couple fire engines showed up about 5 minutes after the accident happened. The Focus was leaking antifreeze all over the place, so the firemen shoveled some dirt onto the spill.
I stuck around, gave the cop my name and number, in case they needed a witness. The poor girl who was driving the Focus was so shaken up that she said she wasn't even sure of what happened!
Interestingly, the stretch of road that I was on was built partly to eliminate the last two at-grade railroad crossings in Amtrack's Northeast Corridor. Supposedly, those railroad crossings were getting dangerous. And with increasing car traffic, as well as faster moving trains, that's a good argument. Still, I remember hearing that, not counting suicides, something like 3 people had been killed at those two crossings since the dawn of history. And more than likely, those tracks have been there before the automobile was even invented.
Well, those two railroad crossings were closed down in 1984. Within 4 years, on the new stretch of road, something like 6 people had been killed at one intersection, 12 or 13 at another, and 3 at my street. And that was almost 20 years ago! I wonder how many more have been killed since then?
I guess that's progress for ya. :sick:
If she drives a car/vehicle, wonder if she is an inconsiderate driver. After hearing about her in other media, watched the View "once" for about a half-hour to see what she was about. What I found incredible was not so much her inane blather, but the mopes in the audience responding favorably to her nonsense. If that audience is somehow representative of US population, we are indeed in trouble.
Indeed she is a representation of a segment of the US population. She probably has a driver/chauffeur so the general public is probably insulated against whatever she might inflict as a driver.
What a moron. Structural steel will melt or at the very least deform under pressure after about one hour in a fire. Ask any civil engineer and they will tell you the same. Depending on how well the steel has been insulated against fire might extend that time a little bit but not much.
For sure!! She must have said that on an off medication day!? How did she think it was formed/forged INTO structural steel in the first place???
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
She is not the only one, there are many 9/11 conspiracy theorists who are saying the same thing. They say that the fires caused but the plane crashes couldn't have melted the steel in the building to cause the collapse of the WTC. Hence it must have been an inside job.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
And pretty far from our topic, as well.
But you're right its off topic.
On topic on the way home yesterday I was driving out of the office complex where I work. As I was coming out to the main street some clown in a Benz turns into the complex way to fast and swerves into my lane. If I would have been <5 seconds a head of myself he would have hit me.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
The most memorable offenders were a white MB W140 S600 going about 50 in the left lane, and then a big F350 with a boat tied to its roof towing a large travel trailer going about 45, in the left lane. Several other lesser offenders too, I must have passed 20 cars on the right, and I never broke about 7 over the limit.
On a 4 lane state highway, I also got behind an old hag in a Prius who was passing a minivan, then lost her muster in the middle of the pass. I flashed my lights a few times (she was going well under the limit by then), and when she finally woke up, she floored that ugly snail, and got it up to about 15 over. Then she backed off. Some people...
Only saw one WSP car the entire time. I saw some county rigs on a state highway speedtrapping, you could see them from a mile away it seemed...so anyone they nab has it coming.
I have nowhere to go! I have about 75% of my vehicle hanging out onto the street, and I'm thinking some idiot is going to plow into the back of my car any second. I wait about 2-3 seconds then hit my horn for about a second. The driver, who apparently is asking for directions, remains motionless as does the cop car. I wait another 3-5 seconds then lay on my horn for about 2-3 seconds. Well, a second or two later the driver pulls up and into this resturant on the left so I can get through.
As I'm pulling into the intersection I notice the cop glaring at me through his rolled down window. So, I roll down my window and glare back, as I feel these idiots were endangering the lives of myself and family. I believe this cop to be the guy who lives behind me (built a Jay Leno sized garage for his cars), so I yell out "That guy needs to get out of the road"... putting it on the driver who had stopped to ask for directions. What I thought about saying is, " You should know better... you guys are going to get somebody killed".
Now, my wife became angry with me saying I overreacted and this cop could be one of those crazy cops who will come after us... or at least lie in await to give me a ticket of some sort. I read and see all the time about people who are rear ended because other drivers aren't paying attention. I certainly wouldn't expect anyone to stop on this stretch of road unless they were at a stoplight. So, my thinking was this cop and other driver were highly inconsiderate as they were putting my familys health at risk. What are your thoughts on the matter?
I wonder if certain city layouts promote certain driving tendencies, or if maybe certain areas attract certain demographics, who then tend to drive differently (like, lots of senior residents = more sluggish driving in general?). Maybe both.
I noted a long time ago that Fremont, on the east bay, is full of lethargic drivers. My morning commute across town (and Fremont is physically a very large city, even though its population is diffuse) always brought bouts of frustration with people who wouldn't wake up at green lights, or cruised well below the speed limit on long stretches.
The funny thing about Fremont is that it's full of long, wide, multi-lane suburban strips with speed limits between 35 and 45. The kind of roads where people tend to speed in most communities. Yet in Fremont, it's like snails on wheeels for some reason.
Over on the peninsula, like in Sunnyvale (where I just moved from), the roads are very similar, but the driving is completely different. People are much quicker off the line, and they waste no time getting up to speed.
So today I was once again mired in downtown San Mateo, where the speed limit is 30, and -- I kid you not -- I always get stuck behind somebody going literally 5 to 10 mph. I don't normally beep to get people to speed up, but in San Mateo, people's speeds are so obnoxiously inconsiderate that I sometimes do.
Now if you look at downtown San Mateo, you can guess why it might be like that. Blocks are short, roads are narrow, there is angled curb-facing parking everywhere, and there are lots of people and shops lining the sidewalks. Somehow having all this "stuff going on" either makes drivers think they have to be EXTRA careful, or just overwhelms them with happy little distractions so they pay absolutely no attention to their driving. (I'm guessing more of the latter.)
On the other hand, if you go to certain parts of San Francisco or Oakland where the overall downtownish layout is similar, people somehow don't forget how to drive.
I get stuck at so many lights in downtown San Mateo as it is, and this inconsiderate dawdling greatly exacerbates the problem.
If the car in front of me had stated a fraction of a second sooner, or the light turned green a fraction of a secon sooner or the clown would have been a split second slower a few peoples days would have been ruined.
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just like most drivers, they failed to keep right, which might be inconsiderate. They had a good excuse, I suppose, optimizing their height & lane-placement to maintain their ground-speed.
Well, it was a very jonathan-livingston-seagull moment.