what’ll they think of next?
Evidently, while I was crawling through traffic this morning, there was a car accident at an intersection about a block up and to the West. It wasn’t causing the congestion that I was sitting in – that was simply people’s apparent inability to drive in slush. But it did draw a Brighton PD car from the tail end of my new group of drive-time friends…
I didn’t see him coming initially, probably because of the snow and frozen road spray on his light bar. What I did hear was someone else’s cell phone ringing in my back seat. “What the hell?” I asked aloud…
I saw the cruiser’s lights right about the same time that the cell phone noise – a generic-sounding late-90s ringer that was alternating between high- and low-pitched rings – turned into a traditional “wail” siren. It alternated a few more times before the cop, who was only going about 35 down the slushy median, passed me. Wail … yelp … hi-lo … air horn … cell phone!
It’s pretty sad that drivers have become so inured to emergency vehicles that siren manufacturers have to design in cell phone ringers in order to get people to notice the police car / ambulance / fire truck behind them whose destination is far more important than their own!
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