Fire the writers.
Oct. 24th, 2005 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeBecause it is clear that they are accustomed to writing sitcoms, and that is NOT my life genre, thank you so much.
It can't be anything but sitcom material when you jaywalk once--once!--at the major intersection between your house and the train (because you are running late and it cuts off a good 40-60 seconds; the difference between having to sprint and not having to sprint), and you and a fellow CRIMINAL!~ get stopped & ticketed by a pair of cops in an unmarked vehicle who have been commanded to go forth and enforce the law because two idiots got road-pizza'd the other day jaywalking at that intersection and God bless the nanny state...
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audiovile, who jaywalks at the same place
EVERY.
SINGLE.
DAY.
and who did so not three minutes behind you, was not.
I would also like to take a moment to swim in the bitter sea of irony that this ticket, proffered for my protection since apparently it is believed I do not have the mother-wit to look both ways before crossing, was delivered so late that I then had to sprint across the tracks when the crossing gates were long down and the train advancing towards me less than 50' away. Because, y'know, it's a lot safer to play Frogger vs. a locomotive than against cars.
It should also be noted that the train tracks cross the street at a point where there is no crossing, so every morning sees a continual game of live-action commuter Frogger as people cross to get to the station proper, this morning being no exception. Yay! Let's make it even more obvious how little this particular nubbin of enforcement actually matters!
It can't be anything but sitcom material when you jaywalk once--once!--at the major intersection between your house and the train (because you are running late and it cuts off a good 40-60 seconds; the difference between having to sprint and not having to sprint), and you and a fellow CRIMINAL!~ get stopped & ticketed by a pair of cops in an unmarked vehicle who have been commanded to go forth and enforce the law because two idiots got road-pizza'd the other day jaywalking at that intersection and God bless the nanny state...
...when
audiovile, who jaywalks at the same placeEVERY.
SINGLE.
DAY.
and who did so not three minutes behind you, was not.
I would also like to take a moment to swim in the bitter sea of irony that this ticket, proffered for my protection since apparently it is believed I do not have the mother-wit to look both ways before crossing, was delivered so late that I then had to sprint across the tracks when the crossing gates were long down and the train advancing towards me less than 50' away. Because, y'know, it's a lot safer to play Frogger vs. a locomotive than against cars.
It should also be noted that the train tracks cross the street at a point where there is no crossing, so every morning sees a continual game of live-action commuter Frogger as people cross to get to the station proper, this morning being no exception. Yay! Let's make it even more obvious how little this particular nubbin of enforcement actually matters!
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Date: 2005-10-24 10:29 pm (UTC)Have they considered just building a bridge across the street? Or putting in a set of lights or something.
It'd seem easier than having to plant a cop there who could be off catching speeders instead.
Granted, patrolling for jaywalkers across the street from a train station is almost as reliable a way of generating free money for the police department as speed cameras.