Alderman McGee (Milwaukee), you’re a tool. Thanks for making the rough parts of town worse. Now I REALLY don’t want to drive thought that area.
Sure you’re sending a message to the speeders (I’m sure as hell not gonna speed in that area), but you just gave kids permission to throw bricks at cars.
Well, just watch
http://www.myfoxmilwaukee.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3050533&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1
Holy. Frikkin. GAWD. Even the asshole’s backtracking is beyond stupid.
Want to slow down traffic? Put in speed bumps, fer chrissakes. One or two every block, if that’s what it takes. Cheap, effective, and nobody gets hurt or killed.
But throwing bricks at speeders? This guy could give neutron stars a lesson in density.
I often, when walking, believe that many vehicles are speeding as they pass. However, I would bet good money that I am highly overestimating those vehicles’ speeds.* I hope McGee’s plan includes outfitting each person with an accurate radar gun.
*After being hit by a car, a policeman asked me to tell him how fast the car was moving. I guessed 25 mph. In retrospect, I would now say it was in between 4 and 7 mph.
Years and years ago I ran a stop sign and t-boned a lady. When asked she said I was going 30 mph. I told the cop that according to my car manual the airbags go off at 12 mph (or whatever it said) and she responded “yea, that’s how we know you weren’t going very fast when you hit her.”
In my life, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a stupid statement that so clearly telegraphed its own perfect reponse.
Figure out what McGee drives, and next time you see him out and about, heave a couple pounds of baked terra cotta straight through the windshield.
“Hey, it looked like you were doing twenty-SEVEN to me!”
Goddammit, Milwaukee really is going to be the next Detroit. I didn’t want to believe it when my sister said it to me a couple weeks ago, but . . . dear lord.
I hate it when people use “concerning” as an adjective.
Fuck!
An elected politician stupider than George W Bush – who’d a thunk?
God PLEASE let this pass in my neighborhood so I can belt the asshole in the silver POS with the spoiler on the back that does 80 in a 25 past my house multiple times a day DESPITE complaints to the police. Just 1 brick. Please, please.
Now he’s saying that what he meant was that we need to do something drastic and non-violent…ya know like throwing bricks, that’s non-violent right.
Maybe he meant that they should throw turkeys?
With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
– WKRP station owner
I’m curious as to what might happen to the alderman if someone gets killed by this (not an unlikely possibility).
Nope. That was Les Nessman, Newsman Extraordinaire!
Nope, it was the Station owner, Arthur Carlson.
Sending a psycho-political message? Wow that is beyond spin into another realm.
Hmm…ok. I stand corrected. I wonder how my brain juxtaposes those two personalities. It WAS Les that said, “Oh the HUMANITY!!” Right?
Err…sorry about the hijack.
OT though…May the Milwaukee public string him up by his peanut sized phallum bue-bues if just one brick gets thrown at a moving vehicle. Seriously, sometimes all it takes for someone to think it’s ok to commit mayhem is for someone in a position of even a little power to suggest that it’s ok.
Right, here is exactly what Les said (sorry for the brief hijack):
“It’s a helicopter, and it’s coming this way. It’s flying something behind it, I can’t quite make it out, it’s a large banner and it says, uh - Happy… Thaaaaanksss… giving! … From … W … K … R… P!! No parachutes yet. Can’t be skydivers… I can’t tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they’re turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they’re plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!”
I read once that they were testing the strength of jet aircraft windshileds by shooting birds at them out of a sort of bird cannon and they couldn’t figure out whjy every one of them broke the windshields. Then someone pointed out they should defrost them first.
No cite found but YMMV. Probably a nurban myth.
Thanks, I could remeber the actor’s name, Gordon Jump, but I couldn’t remember the character’s name.
Oh boy. I first thought the idea had a certain appeal to anyone like me who is sick of cars driven by bastards who don’t believe in stopping at red lights, but then I realised he is actually serious.
OH! :eek: Do they have a special alternative April Fool’s Day in Milwaukee, or anything like that? Hmm, but it’s May now. Oh woe. I hope some sane voters can get rid of this person.