Just a little while ago — within the past hour, as I type this — I nearly got hit by a van at the intersection of Lady and Sumter.
Why did that happen? Because the driver of the other vehicle was too busy gawking at the Occupy Columbia demonstrators who were chanting, and creating as much of a distraction as they could, on the northeast corner of the intersection.
The light was green, but he hit his brakes as he got to the intersection. I went to go around him, and he started to roll forward without his eyes on the road, and wandered over into my lane.
That reminded me of something.
This morning (see the lousy photo above), one of the OC demonstrators was holding a homemade sign out before him into the right-hand lane of traffic, in front of the State House right where Main runs into Gervais. I’m supposing he backed off as the traffic started; I was too busy watching where I was going to testify on that.
Anyway, since some of my friends here wonder what possible harm causing a commotion out on the street could cause — well, this is one kind. I don’t think that’s the intention of any of these kids. But to use a badly overworked cliche, I’m just sayin’…
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Dude, you been driving much in Columbia? That’s a pretty standard occurrence without protestors. The Twitterati are frequent culprits.
Twitterati are the salt of the Earth, and never cause trouble.
OK, we cause trouble, but never that kind.
Uh-oh. I hope this doesn’t cause another unnecessary and irrelevant round of comparison, the way the Rotary thing did…
Tain’t just Columbia. I get that all over the state.