Come on down to Miami, Aunt Judy!

ROTFLMAO. I'm sitting in Miami at present, and am watching a police
officer who is parked in a convenience store parking lot near a busy
intersection. Each time some dullard like Aunt Judy blocks the
intersection due to their lack of situational awareness, he waves 'em
in and writes them an invitation to the policeman's ball. He's
staying fairly busy; now I know why Dave Barry refers to it as
"Floriduh."

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2006 14:12:50 -0800,
> wrote:
>
> >Each time some dullard like Aunt Judy blocks the
> >intersection due to their lack of situational awareness, he waves 'em
> >in and writes them an invitation to the policeman's ball. He's
> >staying fairly busy; now I know why Dave Barry refers to it as
> >"Floriduh."
>
> Florida - home of "Large Print Edition" road markings and signs.
>
> How many of those intersection-blocking "dullards" were over the age
> of 90?

Strangely enough, most of the people I saw getting ticketed appeared to
be in their 40's to 50's.

Even better though was about 20 minutes after I posted this, another
cop pulled up to help out the first one, since it was obviously more
than a one man job. After this I had to relocate to a position where I
couldn't observe the situation. When I came back after an hour or so,
they had closed down the road that was being blocked by the
intersection dwelling dullards.

wrote:
> ROTFLMAO. I'm sitting in Miami at present, and am watching a police
> officer who is parked in a convenience store parking lot near a busy
> intersection. Each time some dullard like Aunt Judy blocks the
> intersection due to their lack of situational awareness, he waves 'em
> in and writes them an invitation to the policeman's ball. He's
> staying fairly busy; now I know why Dave Barry refers to it as
> "Floriduh."

Warms the cockles of my heart, it does, to hear of a LEO doing
something positive. Don't block the friggin' box, peep holes.

nate

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2006 20:41:48 -0800,
> wrote:
>
> >> How many of those intersection-blocking "dullards" were over the age
> >> of 90?
> >
> >Strangely enough, most of the people I saw getting ticketed appeared to
> >be in their 40's to 50's.
>
> Surprising.
>
> >When I came back after an hour or so,
> >they had closed down the road that was being blocked by the
> >intersection dwelling dullards.
>
> Closed down the road? WTF for, a "Dullard SigAlert?"
>
> (For those of you not from SoCal, a SigAlert is an unplanned closure
> of lanes for 30 minutes or more.)

I'm not certain why they closed it down. It was open at 6:30am when I
arrived at the location, and was open around 6:30pm. The whole
intersection is a disaster because of some construction on the two
roads that form the intersection. It was kinda funny listening to the
cars skid across the metal plates laid in the road to cover the missing
asphault.

N8N wrote:
> wrote:
> > ROTFLMAO. I'm sitting in Miami at present, and am watching a police
> > officer who is parked in a convenience store parking lot near a busy
> > intersection. Each time some dullard like Aunt Judy blocks the
> > intersection due to their lack of situational awareness, he waves 'em
> > in and writes them an invitation to the policeman's ball. He's
> > staying fairly busy; now I know why Dave Barry refers to it as
> > "Floriduh."
>
> Warms the cockles of my heart, it does, to hear of a LEO doing
> something positive. Don't block the friggin' box, peep holes.

I agree. I was pleased to the point of laughter see those dullards
receiving their little slips of paper.

In article om>,
says...

>ROTFLMAO. I'm sitting in Miami at present, and am watching a police
>officer who is parked in a convenience store parking lot near a busy
>intersection. Each time some dullard like Aunt Judy blocks the
>intersection due to their lack of situational awareness, he waves 'em
>in and writes them an invitation to the policeman's ball. He's
>staying fairly busy; now I know why Dave Barry refers to it as
>"Floriduh."

You need more than just one cop doing the right thing to really make a
difference. One is a start. Let's hope more cops do the same.
--------------
Alex

, <TedKennedyMurderedHisPregnantMistress.dwpj65@spam gourmet.com> was
motivated to say this in rec.autos.driving on 7 Feb 2006 14:12:50 -0800:
> ROTFLMAO. I'm sitting in Miami at present, and am watching a police
> officer who is parked in a convenience store parking lot near a busy
> intersection. Each time some dullard like Aunt Judy blocks the
> intersection due to their lack of situational awareness, he waves 'em
> in and writes them an invitation to the policeman's ball. He's
> staying fairly busy; now I know why Dave Barry refers to it as
> "Floriduh."

If it weren't for the generally accepted "fact," that judy drives a
beater and not a mini RV, I would have sworn that our resident troll was
in Atlanta today. I won't go into details about why I was in North
Georgia the last couple of days (talk about being in the same state and
totally different worlds... but that's for another post), but as I was
heading back to the warmth of the coast, I was driving down 75
southbound heading out of downtown Atlanta in one of the center lanes
when I see traffic immediately infront of me swerving either right or
left. Lo and behold, there is this mini RV going about 40MPH right
infront of me doing the SIR Maneuver in 80MPH traffic. What a *genius*
to use that maneuver to get rid of his RV and possiblly claim it on his
insurance. That's the only reason I can figure for his actions (save for
maybe suicide) as there was no *visible* reason that I could see as I
buzzed by for him to be going so slow.

In article et>, necromancer wrote:

> heading back to the warmth of the coast, I was driving down 75
> southbound heading out of downtown Atlanta in one of the center lanes
> when I see traffic immediately infront of me swerving either right or
> left. Lo and behold, there is this mini RV going about 40MPH right
> infront of me doing the SIR Maneuver in 80MPH traffic. What a *genius*
> to use that maneuver to get rid of his RV and possiblly claim it on his
> insurance. That's the only reason I can figure for his actions (save for
> maybe suicide) as there was no *visible* reason that I could see as I
> buzzed by for him to be going so slow.

I see this frequently on the elevated section I90/94 in chicago. These
dumbasses decide to drive their RVs right through chicago because I
suppose they don't want to pay the tolls on I294 and they are doing ~40 in
one of the middle lanes with thick traffic trying to split around them at
about 65mph. While the speed difference isn't as much that particular
stretch of interstate is curved, lacking a left shoulder, and generally
tightly packed with chaotically moving traffic as dullards who took the
express on ryan now are trying to dive across 5 lanes of traffic to the
I55 ramp or dullards who stayed left try the same to get to I290.
Meanwhile there is entering traffic trying to get to the left to avoid
the practically 24/7 I290 ramp backup.... Now place that slow moving RV
in the middle.