Don't tell me when to Walk/Don't Walk! My family has lived here for generations, and you're trying to tell me how to cross the road?! I KEEEELL you!
... and so forth.
A small community of 700 homes in the Bronx in New York is up in arms because the council has decided to install a traffic light. They are so angry that apparently there are "lots of people" willing to tie themselves to the pole until it's removed. Others are muttering about lie-downs in the road, or vaguely of other forms of "civil disobedience".
There are two main objections:
1) The new lights will be on a traffic island in the middle of the road, reducing it from 120 feet to 80 feet. Apparently this is not wide enough for buses to drive down; therefore, no bus service.
2) My family has lived here for 100 years, and I'll be damned if the gummint gonna tell me how to cross the road!
If they'd just stuck with argument 1, they might not have come across so amusingly in the interview.
Since it's Sunday morning there is religion on TV (even the PowerPuff girls mentioned the apocalypse) and it reminded me of an article I saw in the New York Times the other week.
You know the Crystal Cathedral? (I can't remember the name of minister - he's the 78-yr-old with white hair and a purple stole thing) - well, their director of music, who also worked on a lot of albums with Christian artists, shot himself in his Crystal Cathedral office the other day.
Pretty sad, isn't it. Poor guy. A leader in one of the largest and richest churches in the States had so few options for help - truly, he had come to the end of himself, and had nowhere to turn - that he chose to murder himself.
Indoor plumbing is going to be a disappointment then.
Posted by: Vincent at December 20, 2004 12:54 PMGosh yeah! Imagine not being allowed to roam free around the backyard and let nature take its course :)
Posted by: phreq at December 21, 2004 08:25 AMThanks
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