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January 09, 2004

skirting the fuzz   (random re me)

some dumbass pedestrian got himself hit on route 1 last night, out in front of the ford dealership. so what do they do? they shut down route 1 from university blvd all the way down to paint branch pkwy...

  1. sideways cop car roadblock
  2. sideways cop car roadblock
  3. my (ordered ahead) kebabs! so hungry...

no roadblocks can keep me from my kebabs!

NOTE: some of this might not make any sense if you aren't familiar with College Park, so you can just look at the pretty map.

but i was a man on a mission. i had called in (just after I got off 495) an order for some kebabs to a place (point 3) that was off-limits because of the makeshift roadblocks: cop cars perpendicular to traffic at points 1 and 2. so i had to go down University Blvd, go through campus behind the business school, come out by Plato's and go up Route 1. but there's not enough room on that map to show how much of a shortcut nerd i am... Route 1 North was so backed up, starting at about frat row, that I had to cut through a little-known shortcut that goes through the armory parking lot and comes out on campus drive. at this point, i had no idea that i wouldn't be able to keep going north on Route 1 past Campus Drive, but i figured that out pretty quick. but the cops weren't stopping people from turning right onto Route 1 North from Paint Branch (Campus Drive becomes Paint Branch after crossing Route 1), so i pulled a quick u-turn and ducked onto Route 1 North before they closed it off. VICTORY! KEBABS!

Posted by yargevad at January 9, 2004 05:17 PM


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