Video scenes from a stabbing in downtown LA's historic core.
Sunday, 21 December 2008 on 5th below Los Angeles Street, round 4 p.m.
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A year or so ago, Metro elected to blow $2.2 million to install 350 46" plasma screens, allegedly for the betterment of communicating to straphangers the arrival times of trains. But as with all things Metro, not only has the usual gone undone but all manner of new problems have been introduced despite the promises of the contractor, TransitVue.
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Are the odd little glitches in modern technology indicative of an emergent AI?
For those thinking this is an altered photo, please see the video after the jump.
OK, so maybe the Diane Cordero was not drunk; just replace it with "selfish."
On Friday, 21 Sept 2007, Diane just could not wait the four minutes for the Gold Line to pass, so she ignored the flashing lights, plowed through the lowered crossing gate and slammed into the conductor's cabin. Once the train came to rest, she started screaming for someone to help her dumb ass so she would not be burned alive. Despite her insistent idiocy, someone answered her call, cut the lumpen sod out of her SUV, and dragged her broken carcass out of harm's way. Then the SUV exploded. See the carnage here.
Diane, had that been me with the chance to save your stupid ass, I would have seen to saving you but not until some skin grafting was assured for afterward so you could feel the pain of the driver and other passengers you injured as well as everything you fucked up. (I mean no offence to rescuers Eric Ramirez and Francisco Cornejo, mind you; but if I were you two I would wave off the offer for "anything," let alone Diane's promise that you are a part of their family.) It is hard enough to get the MTA to maintain a decent bus and train system for those of us who have no motor vehicle without fuckwits ramming their new motor vehicles into the exiting infrastructure.
A week later, Diane's fat ass was in a wheelchair, whining about how her life was saved and thanking the man who saved her. None of the victims of her idiocy appeared to be on hand to enjoy the festivities, nor were their names mentioned. Amid all the tears of joy for thanking the man who saved the schmuck from paying for her mistake in a way that would have served her well, there was not one word of apology for the people's lives she screwed up for nothing more than being selfish and stupid. Not one. And yet she goes on for quite some time about god and how she was praying, and how she is thankful that only her hair caught on fire. Well, lemme tell you something, Diane, since what little bit of brainpower you had before you collided with the Gold Line train appears to have been smacked out of your fat head: your hair catching fire may well have been your god's way of telling you, "Hey, stupid, ya shoulda waited for the train to pass."
I have no sympathy for such idiocy, and am angered that the local news would cover the event in such a way as to be a further insult to those whose lives were put on hold for no more than this cow's selfishness. Who will pay for the ceremony in which so many city personnel and vehicles are employed? Who will pay for the emergency services required to respond to one person's unmitigated selfishness that drove her to collide with a train? And why must we have to hear Diane Cordero hog the mike and the camera when it is the heroes who should have the spotlight?
Moreover, husband Rudy vows to purchase another vehicle of the same make and model. Why not ride the fucking train and the buses instead of wrecking them?!
-BusTard
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