Your tax dollars at work!

Do the Kannapolis Police understand that when taxpayers complain about the inefficiency of government service, this is precisely the sort of thing they mean?

I was picking up groceries on the way home recently when I was treated to this...four squad cars (including an unmarked, and five city-paid police officers, responding to a...parking lot fender-bender. Do what?

No, really...two officers, I can understand. More than that, and you're into “more supervisors than workers” territory. Good to see the K-town fuzz taking care of business and keeping everyone safe.

Great googly-moogly!

Snapped this at driving by a new “senior village” (trans. - “old folks’ home”). Fifteen flags. Reckon they figure they have a pretty sharp bead on their audience?

Illustrative

Surfing a popular news aggregator this afternoon, I noticed this succession of headlines. No wonder people are distracted to the point of near-imbecility. In the estimation of this aggregator (and by convention, therefore, in the estimation of its readers, these two facts are of more or less identical importance.

Congratulations, reddit. You are officially irrelevant (if you ever had any relevance to start with).