Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 9:32 PM Hey, I'm back! Yeah, I know I missed last week's post but...what can you do? Anyway, this is the longest rant I have -- takes up an entire page and a half on my Words(!) -- and this concerns the red arrows in Coulder City, and everywhere else as I've noticed they've sprung up in Florida quite a bit. I don't know how long he's been talking about these things but I think this transcript is about 2-3 years old, how time flies by. Also, the curses are just filled in for when Adam would say "f--- this or s--- that." So go f--- yourself and enjoy. I understand the left turn arrows so you can turn left, the green left turn arrow during traffic hour, it's important that five, six cars make that left, otherwise it starts piling up. That I understand and I think its a good idea... Not necessary on Sunday in four in the morning but a good idea during traffic time. When that arrow then turns red theres no reason for that, it should go from green to neutral, to nothing, which they used to do. Now they turn red, now I pull up at intersections with a red arrow. Heres the way they used to do it. They used to go, "Hey, its green! Go ahead, everyone scoot, scoot, scoot, go, go, go, go, go," and then in the end it will just turn to nothing and your on your own, just like the old days. You make a left when its safe to make a left, and when the signal turns yellow or orange or whatever you call it, two of you can scoot by at the end. Yes, they used to trust you. Now, you pull up to the signal and its red and you look at the light and the light is green, and you cant see headlights as far as the eye can see in front of you and you sit there like a jackass waiting to be carjacked in this dump called Coulder City. And then you have to wait for the light to completly cycle around again, turn red. Now what kind of ass are you waiting at a signal waiting for it to turn red when theres no traffic and your trying to turn left? I run' em, and I suggest everyone within the sound of my voice just run that goddamn red. Screw it, fuck' em, fuck' em. Run it! I'm not gonna sit there like an idiot! Run that red, run that arrow, who cares? You don't see any cars coming you turn left! Its what you've been doing your whole life! Why is it so dangerous all of a sudden? I ran one on the way here, fuck it, I'll run it on the way back. Fuck you, fuck you! Ill do what I want. Jesus Christ. I swear to Christ you get a ticket for that too, you should be able to fuck it. And you know what I saw coming down the hill today? A couple of cops writing a ticket to some 28 year old secretary who's driving a leased Jeta who's running a little bit late for work and rolled through a four-way stop. Get to work! You do what we want you to do, you hear me! We don't like it when you give secretaries tickets for rolling through four-way stops! We want you to stop crime, that ain't crime! Jesus Christ! Who's gonna say it? Cops, heres your job, you stop crime, you protect us, protect, protect us! Jesus Christ. One cops writing up a ticket, what's the other one doing? Sitting in the car. "There's not enough, theres not enough cops in the street, we don't have enough, we can't...". You know, you hear about this response time? Oh, it takes 45 minutes for the cops to get there, its busy when you call 911, then you ask them about it, what about 45 minute response time? "We dont have enough manpower." Really! Why are you parked up Beach Woods sitting in the drive-way if you don't have enough man-power, sucking on a coffe at 9:30 in the morning?! That's man-power, that's man and lady-power, theres a man and woman in that car. Get down the hill and get busy! Jesus Christ, you do what we want you to do. Who's telling these people what to do? Stop crime, not secretaries! Has anyone ever been terrorized by someone rolling through a four-way red?! Four-way stop sign? Who's life has been affected by this? Who's family has been torn apart? Get busy! Don't park and hide! Let me explain something, the only time I want a cop hiding is when he thinks a crime is gonna go down! Not fat chicks running through four-ways! I don't want you hiding for that! Don't hide! Get out in the open and stop some crime! Drives me insane! They're hiding. Hey, heres a plan, I got a good plan, all you go hide! All you cops go hide somewhere and then write tickets to the folks who pay you. Theres a plan, everyone hide! Hide! The criminals would think you've left town. You guys hide, but don't hide by a bank, don't hide by a liqour store, go up the hill and hide, go up in the nice neighborhood where the white people coasts through stop signs! Find those people and bring' em down! Oh, geez, the tragedy of a 28 year old secretary running late for work, folks. These women must be stopped. Thank goodness these guys were in place. I don't care if they have to stay there for two hours, if they can stop these people, well its a better place isn't? Stop hiding. You wanna hide? You hide on the roof of a bank, you hide on the roof of a 7-11, you hide like they hide in the 70's movies, you go undercover, you go hang out at the airport and do something. Don't hide by any stop signs! This drives me insane. Who decided this was a good plan? Where's our vote in this? Listen, I feel sorry for the guy in the beat, I really do because you guys have had your nuts cut off by what your captain has had you do which is go up the hill and hide. How much hiding do you do at the police academy? Do they got a fake stop sign and a hedge where you can hide? Is there a training class in hiding? Listen, the stake-out has been replaced by hiding. I don't like the idea of people that are supposed to protect us hiding to bust us. Get down the hill and get busy! Jesus Christ, you guys should be ashamed of yourselves. One sits in the car and the other goes and explain, then they got to explain to her what she did wrong, "you know what you did, ma'm." "Yeah, I'm sorry for rolling! I know, the car has wheels on it! It's confusing!" You pull up to a stop sign, first off don't put the goddamn thing there that says four-way because that to me means keep going. Four-way don't mean shit to me. You can see, it's not even a four-way it's a three-way, it makes a 't'. So all you gotta do is turn your head half a' turn to the right, you see that there's no other car at that stop sign, why should you come to a complete stop there?! Answer me! And if it's not a danger, what are you getting a ticket for? Jesus cops, listen, I like you guys, I do, I don't want you to beat me when you pull me over tonight, but I want you to get busy stopping crime. I'm waiting for the next ticket that I get for doing nothing. For driving through a red arrow that wasn't there a week ago and I can't see headlights in front of me. Drives me insane, get busy. Jesus Christ. Eventually, they're just gonna assign you your own cop, they're riding on the back seat writing you tickets as you drive. I don't believe you should be able to write someone a ticket for something thats not dangerous. Listen, gang, I run through' em all the time every day and I suggest everyone else does to. Run' em, run' em! Don't sit there like a jackass, run' em. Your sitting there when the light is green, theres no cars in front of you, you can't turn left? Why not run it?! Run it everybody, please. If everyone did it, we'd be fine. Everyone do it, please, just do it. And don't tell me "civil disobidience", yeah, against stuff that doesn't make sense! I mean we had civil disobidience against the jim crow laws. It was wrong to segregate. You know in the hindsight it doesn't seem such a bad thing, but back then we knew it was wrong! You see what I'm saying? And what did we do? We stood up. It's illegal, illegal for the blacks to ride in the front of the bus, but they did it, and we praised them for that. This is no difference, I'm the Rosa Parks of arrows, everyone. Turn left on that arrow, stand up, stand up before I take a bullet in some motel balcony. Stand up for yourself, take that nut you used to have and pull it out of your pants and turn left. Theres no reason for that arrow. —Highway 66 |
