I have job training in Irvine next week and anticipate being turned
loose on Friday around 4:30PM.
I would be appreciative of any advise on the best route to take for
that time of day to get me back to Bakersfield and north on 99.

Sounds like the Tucson Police have been watching too many Speed Racer
cartoons. They think that if you go too fast you pass out and crash
your car...
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/167307

http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070130/NEWS01/70130
003/1002
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1578.asp
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Unfortunately for the Oswego County resident, a Canadian police officer

Just my own detailed report of how I escaped through the traffic mess
that closed I-405.  Note that I have intentionally not cross-posted
this to MTR because it has way too much local detail.
I left work (Howard Hughes Center).  Northbound 405 was still moving

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70 mph limites on Idaho freeways posed.
Cars hould go slower on Idaho feeqays, and trucks should go faster,

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2832280
LOS ANGELES Jan 29, 2007 (AP)— The California Highway Patrol recommended
Monday that actress-singer Brandy be charged with misdemeanor vehicular
manslaughter in a freeway crash that killed a woman motorist last month,

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3812910.html
Houston Chronicle
Officer's pay tops $172,000
Overtime on DWI cases inflates some salaries

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1185750/
"Car Crashes Into Raleigh Alltel Store
"Posted: Jan. 31 6:26 p.m.
"Updated: Jan. 31 8:30 p.m.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/georgewbush/ig/100-Bush-Pictures/Bush-
Birthplace-Sign.htm
If that link is broken, here's a tiny url for the same.
http://tinyurl.com/wkhet

Those trying-hard-to-be-funny cavemen and dancing midget ads made me
really hate geico. On the other hadn, State Farm's ads are pretty
good--they are serious ads about collisions and auto insurance, not
about Neanderthals or gekkos for f.cks sake!

My car was recently stolen. My insurance was going to settle for $23K.
But the car was recovered three weeks later with minor damage. Now
they want to repair it for $7k, but it will take another month to
complete repairs.

And we thought that taking their hands off the steering wheel, covering
their eyes and screaming in panic was the worst they could do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPPgVNxgDGU

Near Milwaukee, a local TV station (CBS 58) had a TV crew out at Big
Muskeo Lake doing a story about being on thin lake ice, when they
discovered, first-hand, the dangers of it.
Oops...

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1571.asp
-> The Utah state representative for Ogden introduced legislation designed to
-> slap that city's mayor for instituting a ticket quota.
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You will be glad not drving in these places at
http://geekvideo.blogspot.com/2007/01/total-traffic-chaos.html