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STOP: The stupidity

| February 10, 2017 12:00 AM

I read, with interest, the front-page story titled “Red means Stop.” Why are seemingly good people COMPLETE IDIOTS when they get behind the wheel of their car? What makes people think they are so much more important than anyone else that they will risk not only their lives, but the lives of others by running red lights, and MOST AGGRAVATING, coming south on Highway 95 crossing Appleway, with a red light for the I-90 on-ramp, and pulling into the intersection when there is no room, and blocking traffic going west on Appleway? WHY would someone INTENTIONALLY pull into that intersection and not wait prior to Appleway before the crosswalk and wait for the next green light?

The IDIOCRACY of these people astounds and befuddles me so. I have had to sit there, the 10th car in line, and wait through six green lights because someone was ignorantly blocking traffic. Come on people, YOU are NOT the only one on the road.

TIM MINERS

Coeur d’Alene