How to stop traffic

[debgeisler]

Well, in San Francisco, today's answer to "How do you stop traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge" turned out to be, "Let your ostrich run free."

Ron Love, of Love Farms, was driving across the bridge with two ostriches in his minivan (one doesn't ask) (nor does one really want to know), when he got a bit erratic with his driving, jostled an ostrich, which broke out of the rear window and went on a bit of a dance in San Francisco traffic.

Now, on this coast, our favorite traffic-stoppers are smaller and red. Several years ago, a truck overturned on the "Southeast Expressway" (which runs up through downtown Boston), dumping several tons of live lobsters onto the road in rush-hour traffic. The week before, it had been watermelons.

One local news wit on the radio asked the immortal question: "When is the corn truck coming through?"

Comments

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. I know just how bad it must have been to be driving in that traffic but holy hell that's funny!

MKK

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

The ostrich was probably making better time without the minivan.

Green not Red

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

Actually, lobsters are green before cooking. The outsides of watermelons are also green.

Re: Green not Red

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

Well, lobsters are still sort of red, even uncooked. They just don't turn *bright* red until after being immersed (in certain non-Kosher kitchens like the one downstairs) in boiling water.

But, hey, summer sun on the Southeast Expressway would cook 'em pretty thoroughly.

In fact, lobsters are sort of inverse watermelons. Break open a green watermelon, you've got red guts. Break open...well, you get the point. And the tomalley, too.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

There's a neighborhood not far from us that has wandering turkeys... we've never been able to figure out whether they belong to someone.

ostrich, deer, and so on

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

Last year it was only a deer.

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

Years ago traffic on what was then 2A through Lexington got stopped dead by Momma Skunk and six or seven baby skunks crossing the road by a farm (that got replaced by an access road into Hanscom). There are things that even Massachusetts drivers tempt fate on, as regards not stopping for an entire family of skunks crossing the road in daylight.