Thursday, December 20, 2007

Walk this way ...

... but don't get caught. Have you ever been waiting to cross the road and cars pull up in the way so you have to walk around them - sometimes in the path of oncoming traffic. Have you ever seriously considered other options - I know I have - like clambering through the vehicle (excuse me, sorry for the intrusion, won't be long, next time could you please stop more considerately next time) ... or perhaps climbing over the vehicle, as one gentleman did recently in Athens when he found the footpath he was using blocked by an illegally parked 4-wheel drive. Alas, as Mr Pouliasis walked over the vehicle, he left dents in it - and was promptly reported to the police by the vehicle's owner. "Now I will be tried for property damage but police did not even bother giving the car owner a parking ticket," Pouliasis is reported as saying. Showing, once again, that it seems that pedestrians have no rights.

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