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Traffic, The Cat Tracker, Cross Parking $5
It is fairly normal to see traffic around 19th and Iowa after basketball and football games on campus. There are usually a few police cars preventing cars from turning onto 19th because all lanes are filled with cars trying to get onto Iowa and the highway to get out of town. Yesterday, however, traffic was totally blocked at that intersection around 11:30am when I was trying to get to work. This was an upsetting start to my day, so I decided to practice a little cognative dissonance and chose to believe that the entire police force decided to have a game of stickball and they were using that intersection.
This made me feel better.
However, on my circumlocutious journey to work I passed, and was nearly involved in, two accidents. This became even more jarring when I got to work and found out that there was in fact not a game of stickball at 19th and Iowa, there was actually another, rather severe accident.
So, a party bus called the "Cat Tracker" had a "one vehicle accident" that killed one person, and hospitalized another. I'm not really sure what "one vehicle accident" entails, but there is a bridge near that intersection, and there were apparently people riding on top of the bus.
I really hate to make light of this situation, but this section of the article just strikes me as (tragically) hilarious:
At the scene, a fire truck adorned with a K-State wildcat logo on its side was parked directly behind the bus.
Men dressed in firefighter uniforms sat on the side of the truck with their heads in their hands.
"It was traveling behind it," Fellers said. "It was not actually involved."
On the abnormal route I took to work, I passed several people holding signs indicating they wanted to sell people parking space for the game. This is typical, but one sign really stood out.
I've given this a lot of thought, and the best that I've come up with is that crosses are probably an incredible burden. I see no cause to question why a person would be carrying a cross to a college football game, there is probably a very personal reason. However, I think we can all agree that it would be quite a relief to crest that last hill, exhausted from the long trek from Manhattan to Lawrence, and find that there is indeed a safe place to park your cross.
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