Back in the good old days, American schoolchildren learned their lessons in
public morality in half hour bites;
Crooks have constructed a small mobile "town." They use it as a speed
trap to snare money from unsuspecting motorists and, for bigger game, as
a way to hijack trucks carrying valuable merchandise. After two
hijackings, Lois Lane comes upon the "town" and is captured. Now, Clark
Kent, Jimmy Olsen and Inspector Bill Henderson are trying to track her
down. After they, too, are incarcerated, Clark turns into Superman to
shut down the criminal operation.
Look, up in Seattle! Not a Mayberry RFD,
but a woonerf;
When Seattle converted four blocks of a car-crammed Belltown street
into a parklike boulevard last year, the purpose was to bring a touch of
slow-paced Mayberry to the big city.
Well, we got some Mayberry all right. In the form of Andy and Barney handing out $124 tickets to befuddled motorists.
Where's a superhero when a motorist needs one;
“It’s a money grab, pure and simple,” he said. “It’s deceptive. It never
ceases to amaze me the little ways this city comes up with to punish
its citizens.”
That observation comes from a local businessman who has clearly been around the (four) block(s).
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