There's a tractor on the mall

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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An irate farmer has parked his tractor on the mall

Two of the quotes I find especially amusing from the article are "Watson “has just been pushed to the edge,” she added. “I wouldn’t say he’s a crazy person.”

and

“He must be experiencing some problems of which we are not aware,” Mayo said.

You think?

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Maybe it’s just harvestin’ time in D.C.?

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The link was to the story in this morning’s Washington Post. Here’s an update. He was still there during morning rush hour, and streets (notably Constitution Avenue) were still blocked off, according to the traffic report.

There are many times when I’m glad I don’t commute downtown. This is one of them. :slight_smile:

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His brain is squirmin to a crawl

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For sale: 40 acres and an ass.

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Take a long holiday,
see museums for a day

Here’s the latest. He’s been there for over a day now.

Maybe Bush should have given him the 48-hour ultimatum. :wink:

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Looks like I was behind the curve with that idea. Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher suggests the same thing here.

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Time to feed the hogs!

(right place, wrong technique…)

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Oh, for the love of Pete. This guys is still out there . The park police (not to mention commuters) have got to be getting pretty tired of this by now.

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Yeah, and last I heard, he was planning to hang in there awhile longer. Here’s this morning’s update.

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[sarcasm]
It’s a shame that tobacco price supports are so stingy that he can’t afford a better tractor.
[/sarcasm]

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He finally gave up.

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      • Well, that was worth it.
        ~
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According to RTF’s link, he surrendered when ATF agents approached. If what they were wearing indicated that they were ATF, or they identified themselves as such, that speaks volumes. No one is going to mess with ATF.

Will he face a charge appropriate to the trouble he caused by rerouting traffic? Public nuisance or something? I mean, of all the times when people in D.C. needed to get where they were going and do what they had to do…

I will say, though, that this also reflects well on D.C. police. They dealt with basically two high-pressure situations at once: this, and the eve-of-war scenario, and they handled it without a misstep. Kudos.