Is this some sick twisted attempt at humour?

[sparkindarkness]

Ok, every morning there is a traffic jam on this road

Normally not severe, but for these few miles 20mph really is the max speed. If you're lucky. You will NEVER go faster than 30mph.

Let me repeat that NEVER faster than 30mph. It is like this for 2 hours.

The speed limit is 40mph.


SOOOOOO nice little policeman with his speed camera - what are you DOING?

Is this some kind of sick joke? Do you come here to taunt us with the promise of speed even though we all KNOW it is impossible?

Do you relish in our mounting frustration just coming to a head at the sight of that camera?

Are you righteously perpared to catch the motorist with the world's first flying car?

Has some mad bureaucrat who is flown everywhere in his private jet and never seen a traffic jam force this upon you? And if so, why have you not killed him?

Is there some other reason you are UTTERLY wasting your time on this?

Or do you need some quality haddock time?

Comments

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

He probably fracked up big time with something someone considered important and this is his punishment. Busywork with no hope of getting anything actually accomplished plus the public humiliation factor and that his peers know about his assignment. Like that guy pushing the boulder up the hill throughout eternity.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Awww, but that would mean giving him the benefit of the doubt.... And then I'd have to pity him. Can't he just be evil so i can hate him?

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

Of course he's evil... but minions are always getting punished for one thing or another and we don't pity them. Do we?

I'm truly awful about giving people the benefit of the doubt, I'm much too empathetic for my own good. Notice that the word looks like it is made up of empathy+pathetic. Even though it is probably a combination of empathy and sympathetic.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

This is true. The job of a good minion is to be disposable

[home-of-usher.livejournal.com]

heheh sounds like Slacking to me. He tells his superiors he's taking his job seriously as a traffic cop then comes out to the only place no one is speeding and sits around eating doughnuts... or scones... or whatever it is that cops eat on thier breaks over there across the pond. ^_^

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Scones and tea and cucumber sandwiches :) it is known

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

what exactly makes up a cucumber sandwich? I get that there are cucumbers, and probably bread in them. what else? heck, I just tried sardines on crackers for the first time a couple of weeks ago. been meaning to do that ever since I tried the Turkish Delight from last year. the only experience I have with british culinary tastes are from books, unfortunately.

[jerril]

Butter. Sometimes salt. That's pretty much it however.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Very THINLY sliced bread. A thin scrape of butter. Thinly sliced cucumber. And it is EXTREMELY dainty and posh :)

Ah, one thing that must be banned from all books is the concept of cream in tea - I have read 3 books now that say that is a British taste *yuck*

British food tends to be big and stodgy and gorgeous - like steak and kidney puddings and stews and dumplings and lovely suet everywhere :)

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Sounds like trainee duty to me. "Here, go do this stupid duty to learn how to use a radar gun. Once we're sure you can find the on button, maybe we'll take you somewhere that you might actually encounter someone speeding."

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

he's a little old for training, methinks. I think i will just call him evil and curse him :)

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

http://www.virtual-design.com/demos/voodoodoll/voodoo.asp?section=demo&subsection=voodoo

Hope this helps ;)

[thisdaydreamer.livejournal.com]

There is one stretch of road near my house (I can usually avoid it easily) that is nearly always congested.

There are signs there indicating a "minimum safe speed" and "no stopping or standing".

Are they trying to start road rage?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I think they just love it. they must.

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

gives them something else to prosecute doesn't it? :D

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

gives them something to do at least

[sapphybelle.livejournal.com]

the traffic was terrible today, and it'll only get worse now that Christmas is approaching (decorations everywhere and it's frigging NOVEMBER!)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

*shudder* i hate it when Christmas begins so early

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

it seems to come earlier and earlier every year. this time they had the decorations out a couple weeks before halloween even. gah! I noticed on a special about thanksgiving (for the U.S.) on the history channel that Prez. Roosevelt (not the one with the big stick) pushed the holiday back a week to give commercial businesses more shopping time. gah. don't know why they botheres, now.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I saw them beginning to creep in just after bonfire night - but then there's nothing else to concentrate on until Christmas - but it still annoys

Some people here actually have their Christmas ornaments up already! *STAB STAB STAB*

[lalajia.livejournal.com]

He's hungover. He can't take the risk of actually catching someone, because he'd puke on the paperwork. He's having a nice quiet doze watching the cars crawl by, until his head stops spinning. :)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll go poke him to see if he falls apart :)

[allthepettylies.livejournal.com]

wow. Thats ubersuck.
I think its suppose to be funny, like you know, "haha! a speed camera during a traffic jam! oh thats funny!"
But it backfired, and your police force hasn't got that memo yet.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

beyond all suckage.

And if I *accidentally* swerved off the road and laminated him into the pavement, *I* would be the criminal!

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

You need a microwave pulse generator to give him a thrill. Crawl by at 300 miles per hour. :)

It's also useful for making the radar read 40 constantly, no matter what, even when pointed at a tree. :)

[only-playing.livejournal.com]

Ummm, where can we get one of those? &_&

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

This isn't the place I saw it last time. I had a schematic that needed some very expensive microwave devices. I never build one as it would have cost a lot.

http://www.tsc-global.com/index1.htm

Whether his will work or not is not something I know. There are two kinds of speed detecting radars. Pulse and continuous wave, I think that pulse is all that's around now but do not know for sure. The jammers were meant for pulse systems.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

heee, I want to convince him I broke the sound barrier