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Apparently I live in the ghetto
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04/29/04 06:32 PM EST
posted by alex email |
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So I went to dinner this evening with a few friends and on our way home, down Washington St. in Alexandria, Wendy and I notice some police cars w/ flashing lights on Wolfe St. We turn off early as we are near home and try to figure out what it is. Seems Wolfe St. is blocked by police tape. About a block later we turn to corner onto Alfred St and head towards our house, when we see a police car blocking the road. We then notice that the King St. & Alfred St. intersection is blocked off and surrounded by police cars.
When we see a neighbor, he informs us that there was a carjacking and the driver of the car was caught on Wolfe & Washington, tried to run down a police officer, was shot in the shoulder, took off in his stolen Mercedes, and got to king St and MADE AN ILLEGAL LEFT HAND TURN ONTO KING FROM WASHINGTON!!!! Now, there is nothing that burns me up more than people on Route 1 and Washington making illegal turns where it is very VERY clearly marked that there are no turns in several instances. So just because you lacked the forsight to turn a block earlier where it was LEGAL, or lack the patience to turn a block later where it is LEGAL, it is somehow your right to inconvenience other people while you wait to turn left, or in this case, RAM other cars while turning left because you are to impatient to just wait your turn to make an ILLEGAL left hand turn.
Then the dude got into 3 accidents in the next two blocks (was probably very upset that he made that illegal left) and then as he turned onto Alfred making a right (legally I might add) he rammed into another car. Then a police car that was probably chasing him to give him a ticket for the illegal left onto King from Washington accidentally rammed into the back of the stolen Mercedes. The perp fled on foot and was so upset by the events he tried to hide, bleeding, in a dumpster. An off duty cop who happened to be there gave chase and exposed the minor traffic law infringer and he turned himself in. He was taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries where he was given a $25 ticket to making an illegal left turn in a marked no left turning zone, among other things. |
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oh please alex. I see illegal left hand and get this, even illegal U turns all the time from my vantage point here in my own ghetto in NW DC.
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| Which of your 10 ghetto homes would that be, Schplediz? |
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05/05/04 04:48 PM EST
posted by nate web |
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| Burn!! |
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