Thursday, January 29, 2009

calling all cars! calling all cars!. citizens not being screwed over. please respond.

car 33 here, i'm in prime position to screw over a citizen. i'll grab the call once i'm done with my prostitute.

it took me an hour and a half to drive to work today. not because the roads were messy. once you got off side streets, the roads were fine. unfortunately, winter madness still has it's grip on the citizens of Indianapolis. what this means is that there are pretty much two types of drivers. the type that are terrified about the snow (even though the roads are clear) so they drive 5 mph. and then there are the people that don't respect the fact that we just got 12 inches of snow in 1 day and drive 200 mph. these people meet on the road and then i drive an average of 9mph all the way to work because there is an accident every 2 miles.

believe it or not, this is not a rant about how bad people drive. i've accepted the fact that i share the road with what can only be called "the retarded alumni of the Indianapolis driving academy".

This is actually another rant about how much i hate indianapolis cops. i honestly think we would be better off without cops in this city. if they aren't committing crimes themselves, then they're doing nothing. they're sure as shit not doing their job. well to be fair, they do occasionally search and arrest random people walking down the street minding their own business.

today in my 9 mph adventure to work which i probably won't get a damn thing done at because this entire week is pretty much shot, i came upon a 5 car accident. the accident took up the right 2 lanes of 70W and the right shoulder. i was in the far right lane and an on duty cop was in the middle lane next to me. i know he was on duty because he was talking into his radio, clicking on his little computer, and wearing a badge and a uniform. he also wasn't in a hurry to get somewhere, otherwise he wouldn't be sitting in stop and go traffic.

so side by side, we come upon this 5 car accident that probably happened about 2 min before we got there. there was oil and debris scattered across the 2 lanes and people were standing in the road looking at their cars and wandering around the lanes.

at this point, the cop flipped on his lights to let the traffic behind him know that there was a hazard and got out to make sure everyone was ok. this was of course after he called in the accident and got crews on their way........

wait....no. that's not what he did because that's his job. and cops here don't do their jobs. what he actually did was very calmly turn on his turn signal and get into the left lane, drive past them, barely giving them a glance, then continuing on with his journey like nothing happened. amazingly, he did this very same thing past two other accidents in about 5 miles.

after i finally crawled my way onto 65, right where 65 and 70 meet, there was another accident. my favorite cop had already driven past this one too. at this accident (4 car accident) there were 2 hoosier helpers and a state cop. the state cop was leaning against his car with his arms crossed watching the traffic go by. one of the hoosier helpers was calming a girl down who was visibly shaken and crying. the other one was talking with another person in the accident and what looked like pointing to the road trying to figure out how to clear the accident.

we're not even going to get into the guy that "plowed" our neighborhood. let's just say, before he plowed, i couldn't even get my car out of the driveway. after he plowed, i could drive down the road. and hey, i only got stuck once in the middle of the road. grade A job asshole.

why can't people just do their jobs?

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