You do not have the right to block my way or impede me on a public thouroughfare. On my way to Halifax, along the eastern shore, via highway 7 I encountered a parade.
Highway 7 IS THE ONLY ROUTE through Moser River where I was stopped by a gentleman with a flashlight (in the daytime). He said I had to wait for 1.5 Hours for a parade to finish. I told him he couldn’t do that his permit doesn’t trump my right to come and go as I please unless there is an emergency, the road is being repaired or weather.
“The Parade” consisted of people with pickup trucks with kids in the back. It is illegal to drive with kids unsecured in your vehicle. Does HRM have parade insurance? Does this insurace company know that they are breaking the law?
At a family gathering I really lost it with my sister in law. She said they were only going 5km/hour. Any number of things could have happened to endanger those kids. Thats why there is a law. So my brother in law the councilor walks up to me. I told him he did not want to talk to me now. He
did and I ripped him a new one.
He just couldn’t seem to get the idea that he had no right to block my way. It was like talking to a brick wall and his wife thought their parade trumps physics. —sandbag026
This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2013.
Sandy, seems you were going to the Trailer Park Cotillion with the rest of the fam so why were you in more of a rush than they to arrive?
Parades in the HRM do not last 1.5 hours ….. ever! Moser River? Where dat at?
man, I can’t even count the ways I think you’re a jerk OP.
Ignoring the fact that you’re yelling at a community parade (Moser River Days Parade I’m guessing?) and really sounding like a jerk, I’ve always wondered about the liability part for when people, not only children, on the floats and backs of trucks. And can I sue my father for putting me in those positions when we were gathering hay off the fields?
Anyone got some clarity?
You have the brain of a fucking fruit fly, OP, picking fights over such a trivial issues. Idiot.
I guess OB would be very cranky if formula 1 racing ever came to HRM, it blocks major roads, and doesn’t sneak anyone through. you definitely have to wait until they are finished.
Usually the “parade rules” for being on the back of a truck in a parade is that you’re on, or you’re off, but you can’t change your mind once you set off on the parade route. You can’t hop on/off. I don’t know how that fits into terms & conditions of insurance, legislation, etc though. I just know that non-compliance gets you kicked out of the parade (usually- if caught).
Calm down OP, you’re going make yourself sick ranting about something so stupid.
And you didn’t call the city because…?
Don’t know the area, but Hey I’d be pissed too if there were no other way to get where I needed to go; other than wait an hour and a half; though I am sure the parade was no suprise.
Lol, you had to wait for an hour and a half!!! It’s even funnier that we get to see you acting like a total bitch-ass!!!!!
Sorry OB, their permit beats your traveling. I dare you to bitch at the Mounties. I hope they have paper bags as their laughter would probably cause them to hyperventilate. You are a Self Entitled Twat and in the words of Bugs Bunny, a maroon.
The detour was clearly marked OB, all you had to do was take Englehutt Rd., cut across the back of the Elementry School to the Church Loop. Frig, we did it in about 2 minutes on our trail bikes.
I hear you OB & feel your pain . Although to be fair the response from Hugo Phurst , says there was a detour.
Out where I live there is a parade/ceremony every year, they block the main intersection for at least an hour, to 1.5 hours as well. It is the only way out of where I live, if i take the alternate route about 3 times as far …it takes me around to the same intersection that is blocked ! !
I can go around through the Musqudoboit Valley & down the #7 adds about an hoiur to my 30 minute commute. or up the # 2 out through Milford & to exit 9 , mores than 20 miles out of my way.
It doesn’t seem fair that the few can trump the travel rights of many others …but that’s the way it goes & I now make that day, a day I stay at home or I get up & make sure I am out of here by 8 am. ( the last couple of years its been a day off ~;)
I love it when impatient people get stifled, it really, really makes my day.
You should have called your cousins, The Village People. Or your uncle Rob Ford.
Yeeeeah, you don’t give a shit about those kids. You’re just latching onto them so you can justify being a jerk. Maybe if you hadn’t been frothing yourself into a tizzy your eyes would have been clear enough to see the detour.
ONE fucking day in a year and you lose your shit over a parade that celebrates the community, entertains the kids and is most likely put on by volunteers! You fucken self absorbed piece of shit, shut your fucken mouth and deal with it, unfuckenbeliveable!
WHAAAAA! I didn’t get my way! WHAAAAA!