Delayed my 11:00am meeting next to downtown 'till 1pm, spent my extended on-the-clock lunch break spent at my favorite china town restraunt and a snooze in the car while listening to the radio. I was already past it since I left my office in West LA at 10.
1) They got arrested very quickly, I think they got less than two songs played beforehand. Only PIA about it was that they got to play for 4 minutes, while it took 40-minutes for them to get a heavy-duty tow truck on scene to move the thing.
2) This was 10:30am here in LA. Everyone who had a job was already at it, so maybe some meetings and apointments got held up because the freeway got crunched down to two lanes, happens everyday here (usually when some supposed black hole opens up and instantaneously caused that 5 land rover, 2 beamer and 3 benz pileup and they all decide to stop where they lay and call their lawyers out to the scene before clearing lanes and moving to the shoulder).
3) An ambulance driver who takes the freeways here is either off-shift, ferrying a dead body, transporting a stabalized patient over a long distance, or very shortly about to be out of a job. Our infrastructure is setup so that there is a network of major roadways frequently crisscrossing the city, each with plenty of room or a median for an ambulance to zoom freely down during rush hour. Also helps that there are tons of hospitals scattered throughout the metropolitan areas here.
