"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

                --Archilochus

Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."

Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."

Albert A. Gore, Jr.:
"An incontinent brute."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."

Friends of GF's Sons:
"Is that really your dad?"

Kickball Girl:
"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."

Hired Hand:
"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."




I'm an
Alcoholic Yeti
in the
TTLB Ecosystem



Friday, November 18, 2005

And then he did what?

So you're tooling down the road in beautiful downtown Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.

As you pass under the traffic light at a particular intersection, there's a bright flash of light, as if someone has taken your picture.

"Damn," you think, "Caught by one of those %$^%#*&^ing automatic speed cameras." You drive on, and store away in the back of your mind the notion that you won't be surprised when the ticket comes in the mail.

Or not.

Perhaps, instead, you wonder what the heck that bright light was. So you go up the block, through a convenient traffic circle, and speed back through the intersection. Damn! Same bright flash of light! What the heck IS that thing?

Down the road, through another circle, back through the intersection. FLASH! WTF?

Down the road, through the circle, back through the intersection. FLASH!

A TOTAL OF FOUR TIMES.

Four separate speeding tickets. Same traffic camera. All in less that two minutes.

And one more: For failing to wear a seat belt.

Story HERE.

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