Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas San Diego, Ca. March 2012

Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas San Diego, Ca. March 2012
Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas at Luche Libre Taco Shop in San Diego, March 2012

Thursday, June 5, 2025

And Here You Thought It Was Only You The World Had It In For


Franklin got up when his alarm went off and stepped on a Lego as he made his way to the bath.

Nora made it all the way back to her desk before anyone told her the hem of the back of her skirt was caught in the band at the top of her panties.

Floyd violently sneezed at the exact moment the car in front of him braked suddenly, resulting in him rear-ending that car...a 2024 convertible Corvette.

Alice seemed to forget how to speak right in the middle of a presentation to the board, held her breath as she tried to look as if she was recalculating figures while desperately trying to remember what she was going to say, then promptly fainted. 

Luella had been certain she had mailed out her completed tax returns in early April...until she found them wedged above the passenger side sunvisor in mid-May when she decided to let Carl drive them home from the Realtor's office.

Lester thought he was having a great day - he worked from home and was doing great, filling orders and prospecting online for new business, feeling productive and sure his employer would notice and that a raise was no doubt in the works. When his cell started ringing and it was the ringtone he reserved for his boss, he was smiling as he answered. He greeted his boss with an enthusiastic Hello! that oozed charm...his smile faded though as his boss explained that the company released the quarterly performance reports today, which had revealed that the division he was part of was bleeding money like a stuck pig and thus was being shut down and every employee was being let go, effective immediately.

Mayetta had been trained to use the forklift. She had demonstrated considerable skill with the forklift. She was a trusted and relied upon forklift operator. Until the day she decided that she was so good with the forklift she no longer needed to bother with the safety checklist when moving what she believed to be well-secured pallets, and lifted a load of 5 gallon containers that were not in fact well-secured...and dropped eighteen 5 gallon containers of honey from a height of 16 feet above the warehouse floor.

Harj was sure enjoying the conversation he was having with his girlfriend. He had been on his cell phone with her for well over ten minutes of his daily walk before he realised that people around him were laughing...at him...as he walked straight onto the freshly poured concrete sidewalk that the workmen had just troweled smooth.

Diego liked to dance, and he was good at it. He was happy to dance at his brother's wedding reception with anyone who cared to join him, and was happy to exhibit his skills a solo performer if no one was willing to. He was graceful and had excellent rhythm and could improvise floor work like nobody's business. He was enjoying himself immensely right up until the moment the pants on his rented tuxedo split right down the middle revealing that he had gone commando that afternoon.

Cathy had purchased an expensive bike and an expensive bike lock with which to secure it. She rode her expensive bike to her favorite hangout and secured it to a lamppost just outside the bar with her expensive bike lock. The large truck that slammed into the lamppost made the bike, lock, and lamppost quite the modern art masterpiece. 

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Volkswagen TDI Jetta Sports Wagon With Police Emergency Lights Blows Through Red Light In Lakewood, Co


 



 




   At the light at northbound So. Kipling & Exposition. A 2012 (or so) Volkswagen Jetta Wagon gets in the left turn lane which has the green arrow. However, instead of turning left, it starts flashing police emergency lights (that's red and blue in the U.S.) and instead of the left turn the VW Jetta wagon proceeds to blow through the red light and continue northbound.

   There is the possibility that the VW Jetta wagon is an unmarked police car, but there are a couple of reasons that I don't believe that to be so.

   1) The Buy American Act restricts the purchase of vehicles by U.S. law enforcement agencies to U.S. automakers, primarily Chevrolet, Ford, & Dodge.

   Plus, I checked on www.https://www.policecarwebsite.net/westside/gov/code.html and they did not have it posted as a marked police vehicle (if a vehicle has emergency police lights, it's considered marked).

   2) As can be seen in the pics, there is a rocket box and a snowboard attached to the roof rack.

   I suppose the VW Jetta wagon could be a deep undercover vehicle, as I know the DEA has used confiscated exotic foreign cars like Lambos and Ferraris in undercover operations, but I somehow doubt it. The roof rack with the snowboard and rocket box is just a touch more clever, eh?