Thursday, November 22, 2007
Fender bender
On the way home from work last night the small security truck leading us got himself too close to a car and they scrapped sides.
The security police are every sense of the word police and they drive small 4 door pick-ups, nice ones. The driver and at least 2 others inside. They are unmistakeable police. Machine guns. They drive pretty agressively getting us through traffic and take various routes, mixing them up but also trying to bypass congestion. They have a siren and other electronic horns that they try to get other traffic out of the way.
Sometimes other drivers don't want to give way and thats what happened yesterday as the truck sideswipped a car, breaking his mirror and scratching up the whole front fender. This all happened at a snails pace, so either could have avoided it. The other guy had a nice car so he should have gave way. Anyway the driver got out through his passenger door because the two vehicles were kind of wedged in place. Traffic was not going anywhere, but the other driver got out to see the damage and let the police know he wasn't too happy, a driver from behind him also got out and now we started to get some shouting. A guy in our van said someone was going to get hit, but the driver from the following car was just pushing the accident driver back to his car and I'm sure saying something like thats life and you can't fight city hall and stuff like that, so the police wouldn't be tempted to get out of the truck and settle it the old fashion way. Traffic was moving now. The drivers all got in their cars, we moved along next to the dented car for awhile and then off we went.
Most streets look to be a normal 2 lane road being used for 4, plus break downs and parking everywhere, and the ever present motorcycle taxis, all combine to make our commute wild.
The security police are every sense of the word police and they drive small 4 door pick-ups, nice ones. The driver and at least 2 others inside. They are unmistakeable police. Machine guns. They drive pretty agressively getting us through traffic and take various routes, mixing them up but also trying to bypass congestion. They have a siren and other electronic horns that they try to get other traffic out of the way.
Sometimes other drivers don't want to give way and thats what happened yesterday as the truck sideswipped a car, breaking his mirror and scratching up the whole front fender. This all happened at a snails pace, so either could have avoided it. The other guy had a nice car so he should have gave way. Anyway the driver got out through his passenger door because the two vehicles were kind of wedged in place. Traffic was not going anywhere, but the other driver got out to see the damage and let the police know he wasn't too happy, a driver from behind him also got out and now we started to get some shouting. A guy in our van said someone was going to get hit, but the driver from the following car was just pushing the accident driver back to his car and I'm sure saying something like thats life and you can't fight city hall and stuff like that, so the police wouldn't be tempted to get out of the truck and settle it the old fashion way. Traffic was moving now. The drivers all got in their cars, we moved along next to the dented car for awhile and then off we went.
Most streets look to be a normal 2 lane road being used for 4, plus break downs and parking everywhere, and the ever present motorcycle taxis, all combine to make our commute wild.
# posted by ok 'den @ 3:14 AM 
