LOL. Thanks, I’ve got tears in my eyes reading this. What a great piece of television that was.
No, for some reason Michael McGee seems to be able to do and say things that would get any other politician booted.
Geezus, that McGee guy is still making noise in Milwaukee?
He was blowing hot air when I left that city 15 years ago interuptting the mayor by blowing a whistle in City Hall.
The guy is a major goon who’s alderman in a district of thugs that always vote for him.
They did that on Mythbusters. They found that there was no difference between frozen and thawed turkeys, they they realized the windshields they were using weren’t rated for bird impact.
I used to live on a street with an elementary school, in between two major arterial roads, which was a popular shortcut taken by assholes wanting to shave a few seconds off their commute.
All day, fucking morons would screeaaam through there – right past the elementary school, at the crest of hill, with limited vision. What speed limit?
I used to fantasize about rolling a dummy kid-on-a-bike or perambulator (maybe made of meat) in front of one of these jerks.
The only actual action I ever took was voting “yes” to traffic-calming measures for the block. (Big-assed bumps.)
For the next month or so it was super amusing to stand out in my yard and watch the morons encounter the bumps for the first time. Amazing how many never appeared to have a clue that these big, highly contrasting, three-feet-wide and nine-inch-high things, marked by prominent signage no less, were immediately in front of them.
They’d hid fast and hard, and sometimes get out to see if there was any actual damage to the undercarriage/body)
The sweetest time was when two assholes approached fairly close together. One braked after the first bump, and the second asshole gave him a bang from the rear – although he was following at quite a healthy distance – he was just going too fast to come to a stop in time. Did I mention it was at dusk, immediately adjacent to a school/playground?
Considerable damage, but I doubt either of them were eager to make an insurance claim.
I definitely like the brick idea – as sort of a fantasy number.
It appeals to the same part of me that feels society would probably experience a net gain if demonstrably rude behaviour from a victim was an accepted defense against common assault charges:
“This court finds that, while Mr. Thompson has suffered considerable facial injuries at the hands of Mr. Taylor, these injuries are a result of Mr. Thompson’s ill-considered decision to spit, repeatedly, inside the carriage of a public conveyance, thereby creating a common nuisance. Case dismissed. Next?”
In this fantasy number of mine, things are a little rough at first, but we eventually arrive at a society that has learned to value proper public behaviour, god-damn it. Likewise, part of me likes a solution that would create some deterrent to speeding for that subset of society that can only be persuaded by the forceful application of a blunt object.
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Out here one neighborhood made a big stink about the same problem “non local assholes cutting through the school zone at high speeds to shave a few seconds off their commute.” So the police went out and hit the area heavy for spedd enforcement. You know what? Nearly all those “non-local assholes” turned out to be either local residents or Moms dropping their kids off at school, while doing 45 in a 25 zone.
Those “traffic calming bumps” you talk about? They cost normal safe drivers hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased wear and tear.
So, becuase *you and your neighbors *can’t drive safely, everyone has to pay the price. Very nice of you. :rolleyes:
Who is the moron? :dubious:
Oh and here is a link to the OP’s story with a quote:
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/7231946.html
"*McGee made an outrageous proposal. The alderman said groups of teenagers should throw bricks at cars.
“It’s getting to the point that I really want to organize some of these young guys in the community,” McGee said. " When they see people speeding recklessly and swerving down the hood, man, just start brickin’ em, for real. And start bricking these cars, man, guerilla style… And they are going to learn that you can’t drive down certain blocks and feel that they can be reckless.“*”
Everyone knows that all our problems are caused by outside agitators, no matter where we live.
No they don’t
Speed humps shouldn’t cause any more wear and tear the driving in or out of a driveway as long as you’re going at a reasonable speed. They only time they’ll cause a problem is if you hit them too fast.
I can’t find any other good pictures, but if you think of a speed bump as being about 3 inches high and about 12 inches long, speed humps are probably about 5 or 6 inches high and about three feet long. They’re pretty gradual to the car going 20 or 25 miles per hour, but if you’re going 45 I’d imagine it would be quite a jolt.
I know I know zombie thread, I just wanted to pop in to mention that Micheal McGee jr is now going to jail for some of the other retarded things he’s done.
Didn’t they make a movie about that?
I’ll bet it takes you a helluva long time to run your errands.
What I trying to make sure the officer didn’t think I was flying down the road at 30 miles an hour and smashing into her. I was in a neighborhood, not going particularly fast and I think I rolled through a stop sign.
I was just joking about your airbags going off at 12 miles per hour. Hence the *Speed *reference.
You’d think they would wait until you actually hit something.
When I went to summer school after sophomore year of high school, the school that was hosting the courses had speed humps in the parking lot. I tried going 20 the first time, and it was one hell of a jolt. You need to be going more like 10.