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September 11, 2010
Morrison Speed Trap Claims Another Victim
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The pigs in Morrison, Colorado have a little racket going. They expanded their city limits just enough so that they could fine people for driving at safe speeds going up US 285 into the foothills. They sit there every day when the weather is nice, writing tickets like there's no tomorrow.
Of course, if it's dangerous out (i.e. rainy or snowy) then they're nowhere to be found. Even though the roads are more dangerous then, suddenly the pigs disappear and your safety becomes much less important than it was when the sun was shining, apparently.
One of the things pigs love to do is make little "emergency vehicles only" access between the opposing lanes of traffic so that they can turn around and go after people going the other direction.
This is the achilles' heel of the Morrison piggy speedtrap - that they could only get people going southbound and couldn't access the northbound lane due to a Jersey barrier that divided the traffic safely.
So, of course, the pigs got their way. They somehow convinced CDOT to cut a gap in the jersey barrier last week so that they could menace even more innocent citizens. Of course, what they didn't consider was how dangerous it would be to open up a gap in a well-placed jersey barrier without bothering to install crash attenuators.
Unfortunately, today their little cash-cow speed trap appears to have claimed another casualty. Someone coming northbound ran into the concrete jersey barrier.
Very sad day for humanity. Of course, the pigs of Morrison couldn't care less.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on September 11, 2010 at 11:38 PM
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