Re: Overheard on the scanner

In article <fvbdap$196$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Paul Ciszek <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Joy Beeson <jbeeson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Now how would you like to be the one lying on the kitchen floor
>>> near the phone that's fallen out of your hand while the dispatcher
>>> consults his notes for clues?  Put a &%*# number on your &%*# house!
>
>> Don't some neighborhoods have covenants forbidding that?
>
>Not that I've ever heard of.  How would they get mail or package
>delivery?  How would they call a taxi?  How would they invite guests?
>
>Many neighborhoods have house numbers painted on the curb in addition
>to on the mailbox and on the front door.
>
>> It conforms to the general principle of "Let's be as uninviting
>> as possible" and "If you don't already know your destination, you
>> shouldn't be here".
>
>What really bugs me are cul de sacs (culs de sac?) without pedestrian
>cut-throughs.  Are pedestrians really supposed to walk miles out of
>their way, on roads with heavy traffic and no sidewalks?  Or are they
>expected to cut through people's back yards?  Does it matter if those
>back yards have fences between them?  Does it matter if there are
>holes in those fences?

In places like that you are not supposed to BE a pedestrian.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]