Very OT - Jack-booted storm troopers

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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I liked the Underground Tour much better back in the old days when you had
to carry your own flashlight and the guides were less politically correct.
Crawling around through filthy, dark tunnels with rats scurrying
everywhere
(especially at night) somehow seemed to more of a reflection of what
Seattle
history was all about. Speidel often conducted the tours himself, hawking
his autographed books at the end.

In my experience, the "catacombs" were seen through the eyes of a rookie
firefighter, flashlight in hand, following his Lieutenant through the
mysterious passageways. A few years later, "Night Hotel" inspections in
Chinatown revealed gambling parlors, opium dens, and "Pleasure Houses". A
wise inspector bypassed these and spent his time making sure the exits were
unlocked in the flophouses and missions.

There is a lot of history in the Emerald City.

Rich S.

"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

Good post Rich,



"Rich S." wrote snip

This was accompanied by video of a citizen apparently (and loudly)
asking an officer what authority he had to run citizens off a closed street,
whereupon this heretic was taken down, handcuffed, frisked and shoved into a
patrol car.


This is no big deal, this is what happens to me everyday at RAH!

Keep rolling them on with power,

pacplyer