As if the general public has never seen a car accident in their entire life, the guy changing a flat tire on the side of the road somehow takes on mythical status and causes every retard with a driver's license to slow down and break his/her neck attempting to see what is going on. I get it. Your desire to see blood, carnage and crumpled metal greatly outweighs any human desire to get where you may be heading.
Apparently any accident, flat tire, cop handing out a ticket or abandoned car on the side of the road gives the general public carte blanche to hit the breaks and lose all concern for anyone else on the road who may have a deadline to meet...."Screw the pregnant lady or the guy who has a meeting to get to in order to save his job, I want to see this accident so I am going to hit my brakes and cause a traffic jam so I can take out my camera phone and snap a picture." No problem, Chief.
Today happened to be one of those days for me. I had been in my car for the last two hours and only had 10 more miles to go. I was 10 miles from my office and had to pee so bad my eyes were turning yellow...and then it happened. I hit dead stop traffic.
Foot shaking.....traffic dead stopped.
Prostate clenched.....finding the AM station to see what the hell is going on.
Knee swaying back and forth.....Idiot threatening to jump off a bridge.
And there it was....
Some clown was on the 51st Street Bridge and threatening to jump. This douche had created a backup so congested that cars were now piled up on more than 3 freeways. You heard me, three freeways....yep, the 51st Street exchange takes cars from the 24, the 580 and the 680. Some dumbass in Oakland whose problems were apparently bigger than the world was now causing traffic delays in Berkley, Walnut Creek, Danville, Lafayette, Dublin and on and on and on...
My question is why doesn't he just jump so we can all get on with our lives?
And, of course law enforcement is helpless. Our local police now have to shut down two lanes of traffic just so they can stand around and hope this idiot either jumps or goes home. Not to mention the fact that tax dollars are now paying for the Police, Fire Department, EMT's and clean up crews to be hanging around this scene of insanity just in case this guy actually lives up to his threats and takes a header.
You know what would be great? It would be great if common sense would make a come back in society today. Common sense....yep you heard me right. Good ole' fashioned common sense.
Common Sense Solution:
- Cops place a net under the bridge.
- Cops shoot this asshole with a bean bag gun.
- Asshole falls off bridge onto net.
- EMT's take Asshole to ER.
- Once Asshole is conscious the cops lock him up in County Jail.
- Any attorney who even thinks about representing this clown when he attempts to sue the City of Oakland for abuse is promptly disbarred.
- Judge sentences Asshole to Community Service where he would hand wash cop cars, ambulances and Fire Trucks.
- In his spare time this would be jumper would empty porta potty's at construction sites and county fairs.
Maybe then this clown would get a better handle on his own reality and the rest of us could get back to work...AND I COULD FINALLY TAKE A PISS IN PEACE!
YOU HEARD ME!!
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This is an eye-opener for us all. Great!