Speed bumps.

There's a lot of griping over speeding on a certain section of a nearby US Highway and the usual gang of people are talking about speed bumps. On  US Highway, no less.

I'm giving up on the arguements now because I know you can't fix stupid. Instead I think I will see if they get their own way and watch what happens. Maybe make a few bucks in side bets with the people that are pushing for it.

Right now traffic flows pretty good even though a lot of people are griping about speeders. So instead of punishing the speeders and letting the rest of us go about our business they want to punish us all with the damned things.

Bigger than$hit if they put down speed bumps it doesn't take a guided missle or even an old fashioned rocket scientist to see how that's going to work out. 

Everyone and their next door neighbor is going to slow way down for them and the people behind them are going to have to slow down a little slower and the people behind them are going to have to slow down even more.

Personally I'm going to come to a dead stop and creep over them in idle and add to the already made mess. I'm not beating my pickup at this stage. I'm tryong to keep it for as long as I can and the people that voted for it kiss my ass.

Now instead of complaining about speeders the same people that voted for it are going to moan, wail and gnash their teeth that traffic is tied up.

Of course the complainers will blame it on the city/county or whoever installed the bumps because they're too damned stupid to realize they did it to themselves.

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A while back someone said that you could get rid of an old TV somewhere for $20 

To which I replied, "Job opportunity. Offer to haul them off for $15 and then just dump a truckload of them in a ditch somewhere."

Of course that got a few aghast comments and someone babbling about the ecology and so on.

My answer was that the harder you make it to comply with a law the fewer people are going to obey it.

Let's see. Old TVs can only be taken to a mandated recycling center 158 miles away between the hours of midnight and 0400 and there's a $375 recycling fee. What does that tell me?

It tells me that old TVs are going to show up in all sorts of interesting places. It also says the Piccolo Enterprises (or at least his competition) is going to go into the TV disposal business at $350 a pop. Pick it up and take the $350 in cash, bring the TV into the garages and run it through the chipper, bag it in a plastic bag and toss it in the weekly trash, preferably in someone else's trash can that put it out the night before pickup.

On the other hand, if the city/county/state/Boy Scouts/Whatever decides to recycle them for free on the second and fourth Saturdays or every month for free at a local park or something easy to get to then a lot of TVs are going to get properly recycled.

To find out why the blog is pink just cut and paste this: http://piccoloshash.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-feminine-side-blog-stays-pink.html NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE WRITING OF TODAY'S ESSAY