Monday, May 30, 2005

aftermath of police officer being shot

Saturday night (or maybe early sunday morning, whichever) I heard all sorts of sirens for quite some time so I decided to go check it out. I drove around for awhile and was near home when I saw a cop going down 39th street towards 291 just haulin ass. Then I noticed literally 10 or 11 cop cars heading north on 291 and really moving. So I headed that way (I had to pull over twice for cops responding) and saw cops everywhere around a bar on 291 near hidden valley road. It turned out they were going there to arrest the guy that shot the state trooper. Talk about a police response. I saw Independence PD, Jackson County deputies, state troopers, and they got there damn quick.

Now the guy that did it says he was temporarily insane. Maybe down the road he will be temporarily executed as well. Bet that is where he will be headed.

Friday, May 20, 2005

The Liberty bus crash

Now I am just kind of spitballing here, but I find it a little bit disturbing that so far neither the Liberty Police nor the NTSB have found nothing wrong with the bus (bus #80) that crashed and now the driver of the bus is not talking with investigators, the police or the school on the advice of her lawyer. I certainly don't blame her for getting a lawyer in this case, but from what I have heard, it sounds like she is not cooperating in the investigation. That makes me wonder if the bus driver has something to hide.

The investigation may take up to 18 months to wrap up completely.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

A good one about the stupidity of government

If you didn't catch this article in the KCStar this morning, you have to read this article. It talks about how the KC Health dept. food code requires any vendors that sell morel mushrooms to have them each examined (and passed presumably) by an approved mushroom identification expert. The catch? Not only is there apparently no such thing, but also no definition of what that is, or how to become an approved inspector. So for the mean time it looks like morel mushrooms will be harder to find, at least at stores and licensed vendors that have to follow these rules or risk being shut down.

Another example of bureaucracy run amok, check out the story below:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11671665.htm

The Paseo bridge is now closed, let the detours begin.

Unless you are dead you have surely heard that the Paseo bridge is now closed. Now the fun begins trying to find an alternate route. Looks like the Heart of America and I435 will probably gain the most traffic. I for one am glad that I don't have to deal with that mess.

Next summer they will be working on the 435 bridge over the Missouri, although they won't be closing it, probably just closing some lanes. That bridge needs it, the surface on that bridge is in bad shape.