So I was getting two more tires put on my car, which left me with some time on my hands. “Face Off” played on the waiting room television.
(My $DIETY, I’d no idea that movie was so awful. How many ways can you try to glamorize a bullet coming out of a gun?)
Given the choice of watching the movie or watching the traffic go by, I opted for the cars. That’s when I noticed that I was looking at one of the intersections in Gainesville with the “white lights”, the ones that ostensibly turn on when someone runs the red light.
Guess what? They don’t work. They don’t work at *all*. They came on randomly when the light turned red.
Often they came on when a motorist had legitimately proceeded into the intersection on yellow. Other times they came on after someone made a legal right turn on red. In some cases there was no one even at the intersection in that direction, and hadn’t been for ten, maybe fifteen seconds.
But you *know* these things are going to be used as evidence in court cases.
At some point you have to think that maybe our elected officials have become less concerned about our safety in the traffic system and more concerned about finding new ways to hand out tickets to get revenue.
