Quoted message said:On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:05:43 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:Per [email hidden]:
Quoted message said:http://tinyurl.com/ybfsmj
Great choice of music!
I don't get the last one - with the two vans.
Seems like maybe tradesmen or delivery people or some such are
authorized to enter the area and the second guy might have just
been following the first one in to some job site or delivery
location and maybe didn't even see the things.
OTOH, you'd think that bollard lore would be pretty firmly
entrenched in the public consciousness after a few years...
Dear Pete,
In that final brief episode, the van with legitimate business and a
radio control is pulling through the bollards, while the jackass
behind him with no radio to control the bollards is obviously trying
to blast through the pedestrian crossing from another angle--the
bollards may have stopped him from hitting the van ahead of him.
As for "not seeing the things," play the opening scene again--no
reasonable person is going believe anyone who claims that he failed to
see those two huge signs on either side of the barriers.
http://tinyurl.com/ybfsmj
Every summer, [censored] just like the ones in the video drive half a
mile the wrong way through the City Park in Pueblo, head-on into
one-way traffic around blind corners, because the east entrance to the
park is closed with a metal gate on Sundays.
These jerks invariably claim that they didn't see the signs saying
"no-entrance" and "wrong-way" when they came to the 20-foot wide gate
closing their half of the street, stopped, and then swerved three
lanes over.
For some odd reason, the morons lose their ability to read glaringly
obvious signs only early in the morning, when they think that there
won't be any traffic coming through the one-way street--just as the
idiots in the videos are blind to the signs only when they think they
can blast past through behind a legitimate car and go fast enough to
escape the rising bollards--which they have sat and watched, rising
and falling, as they planned their attack.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
Here's the east entrance to the City Park on a Sunday:
http://i16.tinypic.com/4y4rrk0.jpg
And here's a closer view:
http://i10.tinypic.com/6254l5d.jpg
Imagine the gray car swerving to enter the park the wrong way down the
one-way street, past the do-not-enter and other signs, about to crash
head-on into the red car.
Now imagine that the red car is you on a bicycle doing 20 mph
somewhere back along the half-mile one-way road around several blind
corners, not expecting some moron to drive the wrong way through the
park in order to get to his early morning softball game.
Of course, these idiots like to drive _fast_ when they're going the
wrong way down the one-way street. Perhaps they hope that going faster
will reduce their exposure.
One idiot claimed not to have seen the signs, even when witnesses
walking dogs stated that they saw him stop his car at the entrance and
stare at the signs.
Then he changed their defense to how-else-could-I-get-to-the-game,
whereupon the cop pointed out that there are two signs saying use the
other entrance at the west side of the park at Pueblo Boulevard, plus
the do-not-enter sign. Besides, the cop added, the idiot obviously
knew that the road was one-way, since he'd been going to games all
summer and therefore knew that there's no other way out of the park.
I left while they were waiting for the tow truck. The idiot's car
didn't work too well after he swerved off the road and into the rock
wall to avoid hitting the car ahead me head-on.
I was awfully glad that there had been a car ahead of me that morning.
The moron driving the wrong way through the park might not have
swerved for a mere bicycle.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
