Rollin’ - Rollin’ - Rollin’ Through a Red Light!
I could have been street pizza today - a permanent part of the grill of an Audi. Enter four guys on the way back from lunch, standing at a corner waiting to cross the street. The light turns green and I suggest we cross (despite the fact that we didn’t get to the crossing button in time). One of my colleagues responds with concern,” Are you crazy? We are in Orange County.” We all agree and stay on the sidewalk…
Merely seconds after agreeing to wait and still facing the crosswalk spanning Michelson, a black Audi A3 zipped right in front of us after running the red light by using the cross-walk to our left. Stepping into the crosswalk a moment sooner would have meant certain demise!
While we were waiting on Teller to cross Michelson from east-to-west, the Audi approached the red-light on Michelson from the south. There were two cars in each of the straight lanes and one in the left turn lane. Seeing that he would likely have to wait at least 30 seconds for the light to turn green in his favor, he threw caution to the wind and made an abrupt move for the right hand turn lane…slowing only slightly as he approach the corner, he made an angled right turn. What he did next bordered on insanity…
After making his loose tight turn, our model moron continued - crossing the intersection by straddling the crosswalk spanning Teller and turning back onto Michelson. I have included a visual which illustrates this madness in full color… give it a little click-click-click-a-roo!
So, basically we have another entitled idiot who clearly believes his phantom stature in life justifies breaking laws and putting other people at risk. This was truly an amazing display - apparently, his senselessness knows no bounds… Definitely not a Model Citizen, but a Model Idiot indeed!
Howie said,
Wrote on March 14, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
The other day I was at a 4 way stop sign. The car perpendicular to the right of me makes a left…. then as I begin to make my move across the intersection, the car behind the one that just went decides to roll on through! I honk and she looks at me with the “Get over it, I’m better than you and don’t need to obey the law” look on her face as she rolls on by. Maybe if she read McKinney’s post on stop sign rules she would have been more of a model citizen…
Patrick said,
Wrote on March 26, 2008 @ 12:02 am
That is so scary! People do that here in Hollywood, too. (Hollywood CA, not FL, that is, lol).
I enjoy reading your blogs…I’ll have to be a contributer one of these days…lol.