I wonder if the survey takers heard any naughty words. Something tells me the Essex County Council will have a whole new batch of twits (as opposed to our TWiTs) after the next election.
Traffic census causes 11 mile tailback in soaring heat
Caught in an 11-mile traffic jam during the hottest July day on record sweltering motorists could only assume there had been an accident.
It was only, several hours later, as they finally approached the trouble spot, that they discovered there was no crash.
Instead, council officers had chosen the day that temperatures touched a record-breaking 97.7f (36.5c) to hold a traffic census.
And even when asked by police to call it off, they refused.
Got to love those politians. Here is another good one. In my town there has been a problem with mail with a neighboring town. Both towns have the same zip and both towns have 2 streets with the same name. They tried and change the zip code, but they didn’t qualify. A few ideas were tossed around like changing the name of the street or renumbering it. What did they come with?, allow residents to change their own address if they want by adding a 1 to the begining of their address. It is not manadatory so some addresses may be 315, 317, 1319, 321 and so on. Imagine the nightmare for emergency workers, with this bonehead scheme. Even the post master didn’t think it was a good idea.
http://www.theoceanstar.com/weekly/2006/07.21.06/ZIP.html
Can anyone count up how much extra gas was used because of this? How much pollution? And under their environment minister’s plan to ration carbon use, would this get charged to the individual drivers, or to the city government?
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10904
I wish I had something more to say other than:
Morons
How about:
Your taxes at work.
…Instead, council officers had chosen the day… And even when asked by police to call it off, they refused
Then said “council officers” had better be the ones in yellow jackets doing the census… [or is that just a “file” photo of a traffic restriction]
I’m from essex, and used to work for the council… and it doesn’t surprise me at all.
#3..
Isn’t it spelled Morans?
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-moran.htm
Like Ron White said: “You can’t fix stupid.”