I'm writing and posting this blog from the new toy I received at 11am today. Cheers to good credit!
Last Friday, I saw someone commit one of the most entertaining acts of momentary dumbness I've seen in a while. Only because all factors were perfect; down to timing, the people/car involved, and results. Truly a 'Doh!' kind of mistake.
Some woman, with her husband as passenger (probably some new UGA student's parents here for orientation) turned from the westbound lane of Broad Street onto College Avenue. Everyone who lives here knows that this is a big whoops since this means that you are now going the wrong direction on a one-way street. This does happen a lot, and in and of itself isn't that funny. However... everyone who lives here has also seen the road crews digging up the downtown streets all summer to replace the pipes underneath. These crews had just minutes before finished up a section on College Avenue, and had filled it with fresh, wet concrete. So this woman turns onto College, and drives her car right into a foot-deep pit of wet concrete. And her car is no beater; she's driving a brand-spankin'-new Mercedes convertible. A small one. That gets completely stuck in this hole and requires the help of a tow truck to drag it out. And to add insult to injury (since she's already embarrassed as hell because downtown was fairly busy and lots of people saw this, and she has severely damaged a brand new, very expensive car so I'm sure her husband is PISSED- I'd say that counts as an injury), while the tow truck is pulling the car out, one of ACC's finest is issuing her a ticket for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Welcome to Athens!
Last Friday, I saw someone commit one of the most entertaining acts of momentary dumbness I've seen in a while. Only because all factors were perfect; down to timing, the people/car involved, and results. Truly a 'Doh!' kind of mistake.
Some woman, with her husband as passenger (probably some new UGA student's parents here for orientation) turned from the westbound lane of Broad Street onto College Avenue. Everyone who lives here knows that this is a big whoops since this means that you are now going the wrong direction on a one-way street. This does happen a lot, and in and of itself isn't that funny. However... everyone who lives here has also seen the road crews digging up the downtown streets all summer to replace the pipes underneath. These crews had just minutes before finished up a section on College Avenue, and had filled it with fresh, wet concrete. So this woman turns onto College, and drives her car right into a foot-deep pit of wet concrete. And her car is no beater; she's driving a brand-spankin'-new Mercedes convertible. A small one. That gets completely stuck in this hole and requires the help of a tow truck to drag it out. And to add insult to injury (since she's already embarrassed as hell because downtown was fairly busy and lots of people saw this, and she has severely damaged a brand new, very expensive car so I'm sure her husband is PISSED- I'd say that counts as an injury), while the tow truck is pulling the car out, one of ACC's finest is issuing her a ticket for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Welcome to Athens!
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