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Still in the office, D.C.? Yeah, us too. We hope you're only sticking around because you don't need to travel this holiday season. If so, enjoy the empty halls, bask in the quiet, and call it a day early. If not — well, good luck on the roads and at the airport. It sounds like they're going to be predictably nasty.
There Seems To Be Some Sort of Holiday Occurring: And consequently you can expect the standard set of thematically-appropriate news stories. There's the unexpected medical threat (scalding roasting pans - NBC4). There's the local celebrity charity effort (Marion Barry's turkey giveaway - NBC4). And there's the manipulative, heartwrenching evocation of recent tragedy (families of Virginia Tech shooting victims will be celebrating Thanksgiving, too - WJLA). Now you just need to collect "How Do They Celebrate In Other Countries?" and "Costumed Pet Has No Dignity But Plenty of Holiday Spirit" and you'll have the complete set.
Fire Dept. Report Says Adams Morgan Hydrants Sufficient: The Post brings word of a new report authored by the D.C. Fire Department concerning the October fire in Adams Morgan that raged for hours and temporarily trapped several firefighters. As you might recall, the last word was that firefighter error, perhaps prompted by bad maps from WASA, led to the wrong hydrant being tapped, making Fire Chief Dennis Rubin's subsequent complaints about the infrastructure look unfounded. The new report seems to bear that out, finding that there was adequate water pressure available.
Briefly Noted: Vigil held for Rockville teens killed in auto accident... Jury still deadlocked in Prince George's Corruption trial... Bail denied to former Children's Museum official facing child pornography charges... NBC4 offering tips on how to avoid police impersonators...
This Day In DCist: One year ago we were breakfasting at Dos Gringos. Two years ago we were having trouble getting panda tickets.
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So WTF is up with all the teenagers driving like maniacs WITHOUT SEATBELTS? I mean, christ, even my helper monkey wears a freaking seatbelt and he doesn't drive nearly as bad as these kids did. And I'm getting a little tired of hearing the school principals on the radio mourning their loss and talking about how friends and family need time to heal, and need to weep and express their emotion, and need to use this tragedy to better their lives and the lives of their loved ones, but they never even mention that THEY NEED TO WEAR THEIR FREAKING SEATBELTS. Most of these kids wouldn't be deader than last xmas if they'd just WORN THEIR SEATBELTS.
But then they wouldn't look so cool when they get wrapped around a tree.
i agree with you 100%.
whomever told them, "well, if Governor Corzine (NJ) can ride around at rediculous speeds without a seatbelt and emerge alive from an accident, we can do it to!" needs to be smacked upside the head and sent back to Drivers' Ed 101.
even my 82 year old grandma wears her seatbelt every single time she gets in a car, and she learned to drive before there were even such things as seatbelts!
Too many young people dying b/c they are not wearing thier seatbelts. I don't get it. Isn't the necessity to wear seatbelts ingrained in our DNA (at this point)? The first thing I do when I get in the car is reach and pull that little strap and click the belt in place-- it's completely automatic.
Avery road is very twisty, narrow and full of sharp turns and blind spots. I can see how someone (especially when speeding) could loose control. I feel bad for thier families.
It's like they're deliberately avoiding being critical of the kids' behavior, I guess for the sake of the parents, but they're only drawing more attention to the one factor that would probably have saved their lives.
If their lives meant anything, the parents, the teachers, their friends would be screaming from the rooftops WEAR YOUR GODDAMNED SEATBELT. How many more kids are going to die in the coming months because we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings?
All this misplaced adolescent angst. Whatever happened to cutting or the choking game or lighting poots? Hell, when was the last time you saw a kid in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit rolling a hoop down the street with a stick? That's some straight-up gangsta s**t, yo. Try talking smack about him or his bonnet and he'll pull a nine out of his doublet and fill the whole goddamn street with hot brass, screaming, "Hell, yeah! That's how we do it in my hood, b***h!" Then off he goes with his hoop and stick.
Hell, when was the last time you saw a kid in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit rolling a hoop down the street with a stick?
THIS.
That's far from the complete set of holiday-themed stories. We also need "Americans Travel, Roads and Skies Congested," "Reclaiming the True Meaning of Thanksgiving," and "Holiday Recipe Face-Off."
And don't forget "Local Reporters Bored of Writing Same Old Shit, Recycle Same Story They Wrote Last Year."
Don't forget the newly-declared war on the "War on Thanksgiving".