2005/04/12

Your Karma got busted. ha ha!

Driving home yesterday, I had an interesting incident occur. Let's paint a picture here. Driving north on a four lane road named Park Street. It passes in front of the Prime Osbourne convention center. There are two major intersection with traffic signals. The first one is at Water Street. Here is where things get interesting. The right lane of Park Street continues straight, the left lane becomes a dedicated left hand turn lane for the second intersection, Bay Street. Many times, people in the left lane decide going through the Water Street intersection to get over into the straight lane before the Bay Street intersection. The have about 100 feet to do it in, though.

I was in the right lane going straight. A silver celica was in the left lane, apparently wanting to go straight. So, Mr. Celica decides to do a no-look lane change, to which I get his attention by laying on horn and brakes in that order. He's spooked, but was nice enough to give me a wave. At his current speed, this puts him at the y street intersection traffic signal, which is red to us. He bolts through the intersection, locking on brakes to avoid nailing a car going west. The car behind the one that almost got hit was one of JSO's finest. Citation ensues as I happily continue motoring by, once the traffic signal turns green.

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