okay, my story is about a close friend who is a police officer on a local department.
Every year, his city has a big number of 4th of july events, and everyone on his department, and some outside agencies, work crowd and traffic control. we usually took his wife and kids with us and carpooled.
one year, his last task was at a traffic control position after the big fireworks show. the position was at an area where four main streets merged into one road that lead to the freeway. he had a couple of officers from another department helping him, they would let ten vehicles from each "lane" go, then the next lane and so forth.
we had parked near there and were waiting for him to end shift, so we could take him to the station and check out. (marked cars were spread thin and would take a long time to get picked up)
as he was directing traffic, one of the officers from another department had started using a road flare to direct traffic, as the batteries in his light had given out.
In the middle of ten vehicle from another lane merging, a jeep from that officers lane decided to just go and drove through the intersection, almost hitting that officer. almost immediately, probably through frustration, he threw the lighted flare at the jeep.
if bounced off the roof and landed on the spare tire and gas can on the tailgate. and continued to drive off.
my friend put the cap on the nights activities by yelling " that was f(frigging) awesome!"
the jeep driver never complained. (the flare did fall off about a block away)
