Walkin' man

[glatt]

LOL.
Or use the Dewey Decimal System

352.2 Police
or maybe
022.1 Library - Administration of physical plant

[Gravdigr]

Hah!

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Originally Posted by sexobon

Shouldn't the vehicle markings say:

EMERGENCY
451

That's the D.C. Public Library Fire Dept..

[glatt]

Shit. I gotta scrub this mental image. Saw a cyclist or maybe a pedestrian tangled up under the rear wheels of a tour bus on my lunch walk. I looked away as soon as I realized what I was sort of seeing, so I am not sure which it was. This was before emergency personnel arrived and there was just a traffic cop who had been in charge of that intersection standing there blowing her whistle furiously at all the cars that were trying to drive around. Nothing for me to do for that guy under there.

She's got to feel some responsibility since that probable death happened in her intersection while she was directing traffic. I hate it when cops direct traffic in intersections. They are not good at it and everyone gets all panicky and behaves erratically.

[xoxoxoBruce]

They appear to be not good at directing traffic, but I think much of the blame goes to the drivers who can't understand hand signs. In their defense, they rarely see traffic lights replaced with a live person, but some are really clueless. They can't even follow simple commands from road construction flagmen.

[glatt]

I didn't see the accident, but I imagine she waved the bus into its turn without stopping pedestrians and bikes first. If that's the case, the pedestrian/bike should have used their head and stopped as they saw the bus turn, and the bus driver should have used his head and stopped when he saw the pedestrian or bike in his side mirror as he was turning.

If you think about everything going on in an intersection, there are 20 different legal traffic movements that the traffic cop has to be constantly aware of and directing. Lights do a better job without losing focus. Although people (including me) ignore lights pretty regularly.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You're right, both drivers and bikers/pedestrians have to think, and watch out for there own ass.

[Clodfobble]

That's awful, glatt. Sorry it happened, and sorry you had to see it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Better to see it, than be it.

[glatt]

Looking back, I am glad to say I had forgotten all about that gristly accident.

I'm here to post this one I took last night. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, the engine of a semi is reached the same way, but this was a bizarre sight from a couple blocks away until I got close enough to see what was going on. The flashing lights were shining all sorts of weird directions on the nearby buildings and I couldn't figure out what was going on until I got closer.

[glatt]

On my lunch hour today.

President Underwood's portrait hanging in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, one floor down from George Washington's portraits. Right by the front door.

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Somebody done painted up they self a Verbal portrait.

[glatt]

He's had some good roles over the years.

[Gravdigr]

He was one of my alltime favorite villains...in Se7en.

[xoxoxoBruce]

A goal for Walkin' Man.

Walt Whitman's haversack is going on display at the Library of Congress.

Moved by the horror of the war’s damage to helpless young patients, Whitman made hundreds of visits, toting the haversack packed with fruit, brandy, sweets, tobacco, clothing, money, newspapers. He often sat with dying soldiers, comforting them, holding their hands. He wrote letters to their families after they died. He even dressed a few wounds and stayed for days and nights in a row. He wore his gray hair and bushy beard long, to seem more avuncular, but was always clad nicely to help cheer the men up.

The library plans to exhibit the haversack, which is extremely fragile, along with some of Whitman’s letters. Also on display will be one of his notebooks, in which he has penciled his terse observations: “Dec 20th Sight at the Lacy house — at the foot of tree immediately in front a heap of feet arms and human fragments . . . bloody black and blue swollen and sickening.”

The items will be presented some time next month, as the library removes pieces currently in its Civil War in America exhibit for preservation purposes and replaces them with new objects.

In combing the archives for Civil War material, they're finding many of the letters Whitman wrote for hospitalized solders because many of the letters were returned to Washington to prove the injuries were war related when applying for pensions.
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