"Rich S." wrote in message
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Sorry about this - I just had to get it out.

Yesterday was the first meaningful snow we have had in the Puget Sound
area
for quite a few years. Kids have grown up without knowing for
whatinthehell
a sled was used. Lord, did it come down! Large chunks of the working class
stayed home to avoid playing bumper cars, to tend their kids (since many
schools were closed), and just to enjoy a taste of winter.

One of the steep, long hills in Seattle was closed to auto traffic early
in
the storm. Before long, several hundred people had brought out their
sleds,
saucers, inner tubes and snowboards and turned Queen Anne Avenue into a
good
old-fashioned sledding hill and half-mile long block party. As may be
expected, after a few hours a sled veered off the hill and went splat into
something or other. One of the riders broke her arm and the Aid Car was
called.

You guessed it. The next thing to happen was the arrival of the Seattle
Police. The news reports went something like, "The unruly crowd was
dispersed by the heroic actions of the outnumbered police". "Several
people
resisted but were subdued and booked for failure to comply with lawful
orders."

Sounds like the fun police are hard at work out there.

Regrets.
--
Jim in NC