Pet peeve of mine: slow ass cross walk walkers. Seatte is the epicenter of the universe for slow cross walk walkers. Why?
Seattle is very pedestrian friendly. Redmond, where i work, is considered the (un?) official bycicle capital of the world. Everyone bikes and rides 11mph smack dab in the middle of the road. If you so much as throw too much draft on a biker trying to pass them the fuzz will give you reckless endangerment. Pedestrians are king in the Emerald City. But why?
Picture a bloated , peevish law enforcement community, engorged by funds from excessive sin and gas taxes, being pushed relentlessly by revenue hungry state, county and city officials to work over a population in a city that has as much proclivity for crime as a small sized, upper country Norwegian town. So, they trap you in ticky-tack, chicken shit tickets. Many of which give pedestrians the confidence that they can walk in any street whenever and how ever they like and there's not a goaddamn thing you can do about it.
The only benefit of this bizzare system is that the revenue-hungry borg turns on its own, not unlike the female black widow and devours its mate in the chicken shit revenue ecosystem and preys on the very pedestirans it protects with excessive j-walking tickets. That, at least, is a blessing.
But it doesn't keep those Soy Late drinking, tree-hugging, Harry Potter hoarding bastards from walking at a snails pace in front of your car through an intersection while casually staring at you like Sasquatch on the Patterson film (how's that for a NW reference?).
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