Photo post 1: better than tv.

Taken on Friday morning. MPD car 343 had set up a sting operation to catch people who routinely blow through the stop sign at Columbia and Belmont. Every 7 or so minutes, we would hear his siren, and look out to see a new car being pulled over. Fun, right? Ms. Citizen says this went on till noon. The city needs cash!!

We opened our windows because it was unseasonably warm. We watched for a few minutes to get a sense of the officer's methodology...and the stillness of my Special K reverie was disturbed by lots of barking and yelling from the dog park. Three dogs tangled up. Two of the owners who had their dogs on leashes started yelling at the owner of the unleashed dog. "PUT YOUR DOG ON A FUCKING LEASH, YOU JERK."

The guy meekly replied, "Don't yell at people like that."

The one guy then went over to wait for the cop to finish ticketing the person on a scooter. This image captures a rare and jerky confluence, a three-way intersection of priorities. Scooter in a hurry; irritated dog owner; and po-lice, whose priority, as it turns out, did not include citing the owner of the unleashed dog.

From feb 2009