This is awesome. There's an old man who lives just a block or two away from us who gets absolutely livid when people 'speed' by his house. Two problems though: 1) he lives on a road that is practically the lone outlet for over 2000 people and is therefore very busy, and 2) his definition of speeding is anything over 25 mph. Over 20 mph, actually. He'll shake his fist, jump out into the road, and even throw brooms and shovels at speeding cars to get them to slow down. We've driven by him going 25 before and still get the condemning pump of the fist. What's even more fun is the fact that he's the minister at the neighboring church.
Anyways, up till now only those who live in our neck of the woods have been aware of this very special man (affectionately referring to him as "the crazy old man"), but as of today his place as a local celebrity has been sealed forever, as he made the front page of the newspaper. Check it out:
Keep in mind this is the same paper that once put a career fair (and the back of my head) on the front page, but still...quite an accomplishment.
Just to give you an idea of this guy, imagine Kramer in his 70's. And not funny. And the minister of a church. Here's my favorite quote from the article:
He said the people who complain about him and tell the police they're not speeding are liars and therefore sinners.
"It is not Christian," he said.
Ah, yes. Because nothing shows Christian love like following a complete stranger into his place of work and screaming at him in front of co-workers, supervisors, and customers for going 30 mph past your house. That's the way to convert the world.
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I like that he believes that God established the 25 MPH speed limit. No, that's not man's law there. Did God change his mind when he lowered the freeway speed limit in Cedar from 65 to 55 back in the 70s then when it went back to 65 in the 80s then when it hit 75 in the 90s and now that it might be hitting 80 here soon? He's got to make up his mind because man clearly can't take much more of this whole "changing God" thing.
There was a woman in our neighborhood in Orem that use to come out into the road and scream at us to slow down. we use to turn up our stereos VERY loud and drive past her house VERY slow, honking the horn. Then one night at Christmas time, we went to her house which was lit up like the Griswald's and took one bulb out of each strand of her Chrismas lights. When my mom commented that tehir lights weren't up anymore we gave her the bulbs. She thought it was funny.
On a somewhat related note, good to see some regularish posting again Mickel!
Yeah, don't count on it lasting long.
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