Not sure what to make of this. Yesterday and today alone, I've seen three people run red lights.
Not running as in going through a light color-shifting from late yellow to hot red, but I,m talking full-on intentional go through fully established red lights where other cars have already come to a full stop.
Yesterday, a fellow ran through a red light on a 4-lane major road without even stopping at all as the lane was empty, other three lanes had cars stopped at the red long before he came whipping up, including mine. Luckily there was no crossroad traffic with the green light at the time but he plowed on through.
Also yesterday, idiot on a motorbike didn't just decide to weave through the lanes, he came up and weaved through the intersection when he had a red and I and other drivers had a green and were already in the intersection. That was a very almost surreal "WTF?!?" moment.
Today, I saw one guy come up to the light, come to a stop, and then drive through the solid red and make a left turn from a two-way street to a two way street. He apparently did not wish to wait long enough for the light to change.
While it is true that, in Michigan, you can make a left turn on red from a one-way to a one-way street (this freaks the heck out of people not from Michigan btw), you cannot make a left turn on a red from a two way to a two way.
While there was a break in traffic on the street with the green and he took it, still, no bueno. He also didn't save all that much time doing it either.
Not sure what the heck is going on. All of this idiocy was during the day in clear conditions and no possibility any of them did not see the solid red lights that they all happily and impressively stupidly blazed through.
5 comments:
I've noticed that quite frequently lately also. Our little town is growing very fast with incoming residents from "elsewhere". I thought it might just be folks from that state out west, but if it's happening up in your neck of the woods, well...that shoots that theory down!
Grumble... Yeah, occurring more and more down here too.
Just another aspect of the lawless society we now live in every day. Be armed and prepared to confront it directly.
As people continue to selectively choose to ignore laws, be they traffic laws, shoplifting, etc, and the Authorities Having Jurisdiction choose to selectively either not prosecute or even go as far as to instruct their police to not make arrests or detentions, the whole system seems to be operating by someone's or a group of someones' designs to erode and destroy the civil society in which citizens (not all, but most) followed laws cooperatively in order that we could live in a free and peaceful society. Is this an effort by the "elite" (it's a label, not a description!) to somehow gain even more money and control? To remove power from the masses? (e.g. "you've all proven repeatedly that you are uncontrollable and thus incapable of self-government"). GAH - I hate even thinking about such levels of evil!
I'm one of the few conservatives that supports (the correct) use of red light cameras.
The internet is full of red light running accident videos and they can be brutal.
Post a Comment