On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:13:57 +0000, Alexander Rogge
> wrote:

>A common Sloth this week is the "Colour Mixup Sloth". This Sloth brakes
>for green traffic signals, but accelerates for yellow signals and
>doesn't stop for red signals.
>
>Another Sloth is the "Intersection Stopper Sloth". This Sloth was in
>the left-turn lane and the traffic signal was green. Of course, it was
>green until the Sloth started braking. The light turned yellow when the
>Sloth was in the middle of the intersection, and the Sloth slammed on
>the brakes and stopped, blocking all traffic except the drivers who
>swerved around it, for a light cycle.

I encountered a new sloth this week also. Call it the
school-zone-sloth.

Now, everyone but LBMHBF is probably wondering how anyone could be a
sloth in a school zone. Well, imagine an intersection in a
residential neighborhood. Sloth is North bound turning West. School
is to the west, one house from the corner. Dozens of rug rats are
coming from the school and crossing South bound. Some of them are
then crossing East bound. Traffic is heavy, with about 10 cars each
backed up going East and West, five going North, and about five going
South. I am North bound two vehicles behind sloth.

So, you have to wonder what it is that sloth could possibly do in this
situation.

Well, the crossing guard was switching between the kids wanting to
cross to the South, and the kids that had crossed South wanting to now
go East. Each time she did this, the cars that were South, East or
West bound went through the intersection. I counted a total of thirty
cars that went through.

Sloth just sat there. Crossing guard waved he through, She just sat
there. People were honking. She just sat there.

Eventually I pulled a u-turn, went a block South, a block East, a
block West, back to the same intersection. Sloth was still sitting
there. I then turned North, and went on my way. When I did the
u-turn there were about 3-4 cars waiting for her. When I went by
after the detour, there were at least 10 cars, and she was still
sitting there. People were still honking. Kids were laughing. Hell,
even dogs were grinning at her stupidity.

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Dave