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O'Neill

Posted: 2006.04.14 03:10:00

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LOS ANGELES (AP) � An 82-year-old woman received a $114 ticket for taking too long to cross a street. Mayvis Coyle said she began shuffling with her cane across Foothill Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley when the light was green, but was unable to make it to the other side before it turned red.
She said the motorcycle officer who ticketed her on Feb. 15 told her she was obstructing traffic.

"I think it's completely outrageous," said Coyle, who described herself as a Cherokee medicine woman. "He treated me like a 6-year-old, like I don't know what I'm doing."

Los Angeles police Sgt. Mike Zaboski of the Valley Traffic Division said police are cracking down on people who improperly cross streets because pedestrian accidents are above normal. He said he could not comment on Coyle's ticket other than to say that it is her word against that of the citing officer, identified only as Officer Kelly.

"I'd rather not have angry pedestrians," Zaboski said. "But I'd rather have them be alive."

Others, however, supported Coyle's contention that the light in question doesn't give people enough time to cross the busy, five-lane boulevard.

"I can go halfway, then the light changes," said Edith Krause, 78, who uses an electric cart because she has difficulty walking.

On Friday, the light changed too quickly even for high school students to make it across without running. It went from green to red in 20 seconds.

Councilwoman Wendy Greuel said she has asked transportation officials to figure out how to accommodate elderly people.

"We should look at those areas with predominantly seniors and accommodate their needs in intersections" she said.

How would you feel if you were given a ticket (I bet it was a parking ticket) for crossing a road TOO slowly?

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T-Mo	Posted: 2006.04.14 04:30:55
T-Mo Group: HGANB First Generation Admins Posts: 813 Member No.: 6 Joined: 2004.10.21	Hey, my gradnma got a ticket for driving too slowly. And I've been places where the speed limit was below 5mph... of course, it was zigzagging down a cliff. -------------------- Return of my dreaded phrases: -Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Weapon of the week/month/ whatever I feel like: Metal Storm: Light, deadly accurate shooting technique that uses an electronic triggering system. So it's deadly fast... fast enough that some versions can fire a million (YES, 1,000,000) slugs a minute. Or, 40-millimeter grenades at 250,000 a minute. And no need to be manned. Target? What target? METAL STORM METAL STORM 2

O'Neill	Posted: 2006.04.14 04:33:31
Head of State Group: O'Neill Posts: 2,824 Member No.: 1 Joined: 2004.10.20	Yeah, but this is walking across a road. XD -------------------- Lalz this is a signatoor

Kusanku	Posted: 2006.04.15 02:22:29
Technical Sergeant Group: Readers +1 Posts: 38 Member No.: 85 Joined: 2006.04.02	Gosh, this is awful! I can't believe someone would to something like that. I'm like, "C'mon! She's 82 years old!" It'd be funny if the traffic light people purposely changed it from green to red every few seconds though. XD

kotua

Posted: 2006.04.16 09:54:53

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Seems police don't have anything more to do...

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In the pit, State Telemarketing Specialists Bob and Diego make sure that mid-level managers and PCS forces never eat dinner in peace.

T-Mo	Posted: 2006.04.16 10:51:12
T-Mo Group: HGANB First Generation Admins Posts: 813 Member No.: 6 Joined: 2004.10.21	Not true. I was watching some show... like World's worst criminals or the equivelent... and then there awas something crazy. Okay... short version. There was a newbie police guy who was called to a shop for a loiterer. He went to a truck and saw the craziest thing: a mime sitting in a car, not moving. He tried to gert the guy to leave and... well, the mmime didn't understand. So he had to make an arrest. He was trying to get the mime to understand what was happening and after abnout half an hour he found out the whole shtick was a prank. So, ya. They have time. Enough to make mimes drive around getting arrested for kicks. -------------------- Return of my dreaded phrases: -Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Weapon of the week/month/ whatever I feel like: Metal Storm: Light, deadly accurate shooting technique that uses an electronic triggering system. So it's deadly fast... fast enough that some versions can fire a million (YES, 1,000,000) slugs a minute. Or, 40-millimeter grenades at 250,000 a minute. And no need to be manned. Target? What target? METAL STORM METAL STORM 2

kotua

Posted: 2006.04.16 11:33:22

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QUOTE (T-Mo @ 2006.04.16 11:51:12)

Not true. I was watching some show... like World's worst criminals or the equivelent... and then there awas something crazy.

Okay... short version. There was a newbie police guy who was called to a shop for a loiterer. He went to a truck and saw the craziest thing: a mime sitting in a car, not moving. He tried to gert the guy to leave and... well, the mmime didn't understand. So he had to make an arrest. He was trying to get the mime to understand what was happening and after abnout half an hour he found out the whole shtick was a prank.

So, ya. They have time. Enough to make mimes drive around getting arrested for kicks.

You just confused me with your long paragraph...

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In the pit, State Telemarketing Specialists Bob and Diego make sure that mid-level managers and PCS forces never eat dinner in peace.

O'Neill	Posted: 2006.04.16 11:57:12
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kotua

Posted: 2006.04.16 12:14:33

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Yes he does...specially with those long paragraphs...Sort of like a long speech...

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In the pit, State Telemarketing Specialists Bob and Diego make sure that mid-level managers and PCS forces never eat dinner in peace.

T-Mo	Posted: 2006.04.16 02:57:51
T-Mo Group: HGANB First Generation Admins Posts: 813 Member No.: 6 Joined: 2004.10.21	HEy!!!! Fine... it was a prank... with a mime. If you don't understand that, then you're on something. -------------------- Return of my dreaded phrases: -Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Weapon of the week/month/ whatever I feel like: Metal Storm: Light, deadly accurate shooting technique that uses an electronic triggering system. So it's deadly fast... fast enough that some versions can fire a million (YES, 1,000,000) slugs a minute. Or, 40-millimeter grenades at 250,000 a minute. And no need to be manned. Target? What target? METAL STORM METAL STORM 2

O'Neill	Posted: 2006.04.16 04:37:37
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T-Mo	Posted: 2006.04.18 03:52:20
T-Mo Group: HGANB First Generation Admins Posts: 813 Member No.: 6 Joined: 2004.10.21	Ya, and I'm standing on a B-17 Flying Fortress (a.k.a. Puff)... while it's flying. -------------------- Return of my dreaded phrases: -Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Weapon of the week/month/ whatever I feel like: Metal Storm: Light, deadly accurate shooting technique that uses an electronic triggering system. So it's deadly fast... fast enough that some versions can fire a million (YES, 1,000,000) slugs a minute. Or, 40-millimeter grenades at 250,000 a minute. And no need to be manned. Target? What target? METAL STORM METAL STORM 2

O'Neill	Posted: 2006.04.19 01:19:25
Head of State Group: O'Neill Posts: 2,824 Member No.: 1 Joined: 2004.10.20	And again we fly out into the unknowns of off topic t- got a problemwiththat? -------------------- Lalz this is a signatoor

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