Good morning, D.C. You’ve made it to another Friday, and as your reward, WJLA has dug up the most hilarious story about Sen. John McCain’s brother, Joe, who you’ll recall was last seen making comments about Northern Virginia being “Communist country.” It seems that Joe McCain was in the area for a campaign event on Tuesday, and while he was here, he made a 911 call. The problem is, he wasn’t calling to report an emergency, he was calling to complain about traffic on the Wilson Bridge. Now, we can all sympathize with how frustrating a bad backup on the Wilson Bridge can be, but surely tying up a 911 operator with complaints about gridlock is one of the dumbest ways we can think of to vent. Not realizing that a 911 operator can easily call you right back after you swear at them and hang up is also right up there on the stupid scale – though considering his brother doesn’t even know how to email, perhaps not all that surprising. Video of the story is here.
Federal Agencies Have Unpaid Parking Tickets: Give them all the boot! The Post got hold of a congressional report scheduled to be released today that lists all the unpaid parking tickets issued to federal government vehicles, allowing the paper to take certain agencies and branches of government to task for being the worst offenders. The military is clearly the worst about paying their parking tickets, with the Army, Navy and Air Force at the top of the list for unpaid tickets in the District. More interesting for us is that the report reveals the relatively open secret that government vehicles, both federal and District, are unofficially exempt from parking regulations in the city. The situation may actually be more pronounced for city workers. For example, the Department of Public Works, the agency responsible for assessing most parking tickets, currently has $10,000 in unpaid parking fines. How’s that for a double standard?
Wounded Teenage Girl Wasn’t Target of Shooting: More details are available on the 13-year-old girl who was wounded in a shooting in Northeast this week. Police have announced that they have learned she was shot by a 15-year-old boy who was aiming at someone else. The girl is expected to survive.
Briefly Noted: Someone in Montgomery County is painting the word “SCAM” on the road in front of speed cameras … Search for Fairfax County police officer missing in Pohick Bay not looking good … Police officially name suspect in 11-year old missing woman case … Credit crisis may force Metro to pay millions.
This Day in DCist: A year ago, we interviewed Travis Morrison, and two years ago, the ongoing protests and controversy over the selection of Jane Fernandes as president of Gallaudet University were heating up.
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