The company I am contracted with is located in the East Bay suburb of Alameda, California. They are situated in a series of business complexes in which one has to drive through several miles of side streets to get to work each morning. And all of those side streets have 25 mph speed limits posted.
Get clocked doing 29 mph and the Alameda Police will pull you over and ticket you. (Thankfully, I haven't been pulled over. But I see it happen to others several times a week.)
SO...this morning I am driving down High Street - moving between 25 mph and 26 mph - when a big silver Honda Pilot is right on my ass. He flickered his lights, he tried to go around but couldn't (two lane street, no passing). About 20 to 30 seconds later we approached a stop light. It had turned yellow well before we got there, and was red when we stopped.
Once we stopped, the guy in the Pilot swung around to my passenger side - into the right turn lane - and proceeded to fly through the red light at about 35 mph, and once he was on the other side of the light he was going much faster.
First and foremost...there is a junior high school located at this intersection. I don't know what this fuck-wad was thinking, but obviously he had no concern for the school kids of Alameda.
Secondly, he violated about three other traffic laws: speeding, going through a red light, and mis-using a turn lane. And my question is, where were the cops? Usually they're lined up along that stretch because of the school, but this morning they were nowhere to be found.
So to the drivers of Alameda, I serve you warning - Be on the lookout for the following vehicle:
Honda Pilot (Silver)
California license plate number: 5DTN020
With a license plate frame that says: "Alpha Tau Omega"
A frat boy. Figures!
