Our two bank holidays are next week, silly.
Gawd bless ya ma’am.
Now just one more thing - what are you memorialing?
pan
Dear Turd Who Walks: I believe it is time to stop refuting claims that no one has made.
Pay attention. During holiday weekends officialdom pretty much shuts down. No criminal trials, no legislative sessions, no handouts to the news media. So local cop shops plan things like Checkpoint Charlie because they know that attention will be paid.
Got it now? Good.
My calendar says that 5/27 was a Bank Holiday (U.K.). And calendars never lie.
Bloody hell. Wait until I tell everyone in my office and, indeed, everyone I know. They’re going to be well pissed off. Sneaky employers, not telling us that it was actually a holiday!
pan
Gee, Jack. I guess in your benighted world there’s no law enforcement between the hours of 5 pm and 9 am, hey? The police officers are out there doing something that apparently has proven in the past to save lives. Please read the last two words in that sentence again: save lives. That the courts are closed does not mean the morons-at-large aren’t out there on the roads driving drunk, driving too fast for road conditions, driving around with their tots unrestrained. The law enforcement are attempting to make the roads safe so you, and everyone else, can actually “arrive alive.”
And you’re obviously a damn liar. Do you not recount posting this tidbit: “There’s little domestic news on a holiday weekend.”
I, for one, am quite impressed, though, that you’ve managed to drive at all what with your cranial posterior inversion.
Traditionally the holiday is for remembering soldiers who were killed in the line of duty. This year the victims of the 9-11 attacks were added to many ceremonies (a completely understandable addition in my opinion).
Memorial day weekend is the unofficial start of Summer.
Since this holiday is always on a Monday, it’s always a long weekend and many people will take short vacations (I went to St. Simon’s Island, Georgia). Unfortunately, due to increases in travel and an above average number of drunken drivers (it being a holiday), Memorial Day weekend tends to have a higher rate of vehicular fatalities. This accounts for a greater police presence. In Georgia, the cops had a “click-it or ticket” campaign where they pulled anyone over who wasn’t wearing a seat-belt.
Thankyou Breeblebox.
Drunk driving hardly seems a fitting way to remember those who died that we might live in a free society. I say let the cops hit them with everything they’ve got. And if some people who shouldn’t be driving over the speed limit get caught while they’re at it - well, you do the crime, you pay the fine.
pan
In my opinion, we have something of a catch-22 here.
Have extra police patrolling with extra drunk-driving checkpoints, and people will bitch about being harrassed and congestion.
Have the normal number of cops patrolling, and drunk driving cases will likely sky-rocket*, as will normal bonehead accidents due to the increased number of drivers, and people will bitch that the police should’ve have done something.
No matter what, some bitching is going to be done. Personally, I would choose the former option over the latter
*According to my local radio, this is typically the highest drunk-driving fatality weekend for my city.
Monty.
I would try to explain to you the difference between a generic statement like “There’s little domestic news on a holiday weekend” and “There was no domestic news at all this past holiday weekend”, but you’re obviously far too big an imbecile to grasp the point.
There’s another tiny municipality in my area famous for corruption, that makes 90% of its income from traffic fines. They have about 7 police officers for a community of less than 50 people. If there was a Memorial Day parade on behalf of that town’s selfless civil servants, I missed it.*
Let’s be real. There’s a line between reasonable enforcement and the sort of idiocy that some law enforcement agencies either get pressured into, or seek to boost their image thereby.
*If you check out the website devoted to this place, take note that the speed limit in this micro-burg is 35 mph., or 10 mph greater than the limit in Desperately Cutesy Little Village.
Well, I must admit I like the name of the town: Desperately Cutesy Little Village.
OTOH, you posted a rant and basically appear to be bent out of shape becuase you were inconvenienced by the local law enforcement doing their freaking job. Suck it up.
i gotta go with Jackmannii on this one. These fucking holidays have pretty much lost any meaning for me other than “Stay the hell off the roads or get pulled over and fined for something, ANYTHING!” The wife and I stayed home and planed our trip for later on, knowing we wouldn’t make any decent time on the roads this weekend. (yes, I drive fast, almost always over the limit. I operate at whatever speed is reasonable and prudent for the conditions.)
Protect and Serve- Bullshit! More like Annoy and Generate Revenue.
And I deeply regret that my inconvenience incommoded you to such a great extent.
To make it up to you, here’s info on a wonderful new product that appears to have been designed with you in mind. I suggest several bottles to start.
But no snapping.
The link, of course, is in honor of Monty.
Hey Jack an’ Monty, you two aren’t married per chance ?
London_Calling, I think you’re best off concentrating on your new-found mission of combatting bigotry.
That kind of personality makeover will require all of your attention.