Leaving the house earlier today accomplished a couple things, but did not accomplish at least one thing. The ride to work was relatively uneventful for the most part, but it became interesting when I noticed that there was a city bus in the middle lane of the Interstate, and that is rather unusual. Usually the only buses you see on the Interstate are UT shuttles and the Express Buses. The bus was FULL of cops, and like I said on an earlier Facebook post, they were giddy inside the bus, bouncing back and forth like a bunch of pre-teen girls on a trip to the art museum and had just seen a rip-off on Michelangelo's David. Well, they were looking down into the passing cars (think creepy voyeuristic 18 wheel truck driver), ratting out those that were HOLDING their cell phones or other electronic devices. This is the second time they have done this in Austin. Before I actually saw them inside the bus (I decided to play with them a little bit and stayed next to them on their left hand side), I noticed the battalion of motorcycle and other cops pulling people over. If they weren't busy writing tickets, they were parked on the shoulder in sets of threes or riding down the road in sets of two. The two I rode beside for a while were basically gossiping, as far as I could tell.ANYWAY...according to the newscast tonight, there were four officers on the bus (I do not believe that is an accurate report, not the stations fault), 96 tickets written and six warnings issued. I would expect this was all over a period of a couple hours. The first time they did this, there was a lot of crap on talk-radio about money, resources and man-hours, not to mention the distractions THEY were causing the drivers AND the wreck that had slowed us ALL down to a crawl.
I think we need to pass a law that 5 miles per hour is the same as a dead-stop. We shall see, there is always tomorrow.
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