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Subject: Re: Little red van (cops or better called const. Hitler )

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LesleyMeier

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Date Posted: 22:23:49 08/09/01 Thu
In reply to: Craig 's message, "Little red van (cops or better called const. Hitler )" on 11:52:27 08/09/01 Thu

Police generally don't give us too much trouble in Iowa City, but I had one nearly give me heart failure a couple of days ago. Use of the alleys is important in navigating down-town Iowa City, especially right now that various streets keep getting shut down for construction. One alley in particular is a very important short-cut right now, as the only alternative is a 12 block stretch full of traffic lights and one-way streets. It's a short, narrow alley, it's two-way, and it happens to house the ONLY entrance to a popular down-town bar, so it's usually full of pedestrians.

Anyway, I turned my big-ass Buick station wagon into the alley, going under 5 miles an hour, when a police cruiser comes FLYING into the alley from the other direction, I have just enough time to register his speed by the way the cruiser BOUNCES out of a pot-hole before he's slamming on his brakes, leaning on his horn, and coming to a stop a couple of inches from my left quarter-panel. Meanwhile I'm trying to make enough room for him to pass me without hitting a wall, a dumpster, or a blue-haired raver.

The cop didn't have his lights on, let alone his siren, and if there had been anyone walking at the other end of the alley, he would have run them over. I found out as well that he cut off one of our other drivers in the process of turning into that alley.

Fact is, regardless of how severe the emergency might be, that level of recklessness is inexcusable. I seriously considered filing a complaint, but there's only a total of 70 drivers in Iowa City, and only one other car looks just like mine. I decided against making myself a target.

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