Kaolian Vs. the Bridge HippiesFollow

I may not have the most time in the workforce of any person on the planet, but I have to say, the meeting I was at yesterday will probably be amongst the strangest thing I will ever see at work.

One of my many job sections at my other job includes running the AV gear for our large public meetings. We are trying to pick a design for a new bridge to replace the Columbia river I-5 bridge. So last night was one of the milestone meetings. Lots of public, Lots of government and politicos. Very tiny room (offsite so we had to haul all the 1 + tons of equipment over there. That is literal by the way.)

So we get set up, the meeting starts, and all the sudden, 40 honest to goodness hippies show up. Protest signs, Peace signs, Flower face paint, the works.

I was not the only person struggling to keep from rolling on the floor laughing.

So, some idiot decided to put a public comment microphone out, and allow signups. Guess how many of the bridge hippies decided to sign up?

Yeah. All of them.

So, 2 hours later I came to the conclusion that hippies are indeed idiots, do not understand basic environmental principals, and should probably be fiored out fo a cannon at the earliest oppertunity.

Now the two old briges are not eco friendly. They dump car runoff directly into the river, they are coated with rusty paint chips that fall off and kiull fish, and they cause congesition, which means many more idling cars at slow speeds putting out gasses. A replacement bridge will fix most of those things.

Now these hippies apperently have decided that the two old bridges are somehow, by causing congestion are somehow helping the environment by causing all these cars that would have taken the bridge to magicaly turn people into bus commuters. The same busses stuck in the same congestion.

Are we really this stupid as a species?

I thought you were going to tell us a story about trolls. :-(

People who indulge in knee jerk reactions are stupid. This is not news.

The meeting itself was 4 hours. 4 hours AFTER my normal day would have been over. Then there was tear down and travel time back.

I promise i'll make the next story about trolls

Lol, wow.

Those hippes have way way too much free time, even by hippie standards. What the hell did they say during that 2 hours anyway?

Wtf would make anyone protest a fecking bridge? Maybe if you were building it with/on a coral reef, but past that... A bridge?

Heh, in my town, every St. Patricks day, they dye the river that twists through the whole city, bright green. Those hippies would have a field day here, lol.

Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in the town
Sometimes I get a great notion
To jump into the river an’ drown

More Bridge Hippies.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Way_to_Eden

Well the meeting was over in portland, I suppose that could be arranged. but they might have to settle for wheat grass instead.

It's been doing the stupid not posting posts thing more often recently. We realy need to fix that. IS it getting everyone else too?

Yup... that is very annoying... makes it hard to spam efficiently.