"Rich S." wrote in message
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| 1. My comments were directly in response to the TV coverage - I wasn't
| there.

I saw the same TV coverage. What I got out of it was that Seattleites, as
usual, were behaving like lunatics.

| 2. I am referring to the three-block area between Valley Street and
Prospect
| Street. There is but one intersection at Aloha Street and it is far from
| busy. Mercer Street is several blocks away and is a major thoroughfare.
| Anybody sledding there is an idiot.

If you watched the TV coverage then you know that the sledders were going
far beyond the three block area and crossing Mercer Street.

| 3. I saw the tape of the police rousting the sledders well before dusk.

It was dusk. It looked lighter on TV because the cameras have automatic
exposure adjustment. Sunset this time of year is 4:30, about the time that
police closed the area.

| 4. It should be typical everywhere to resist illegal government actions.
If
| the street is closed to traffic, the cops have no business running people
| off.

The city has every duty and right to mitigate dangerous situations. The city
issued a lawful order.

| 5. You have no idea of what I would do under any circumstances. Are you
| making a statement of fact, O self-proclaimed world famous flight
| instructor?

I am not only world famous, but omniscient. I know things about you that
even you do not know. :-)