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Originally Posted by cbtengr
It is going to be a long Summer.
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Last night the theory got tested when the usual crowd that rides the Greyhound between Chicago & Minneapolis decided to test the mettle of our little town because, right where the 'I' divides is their McD's rest/food stop on the other end of town. My take came directly off the scanner sitting in my commo bunker (and knowing the McD's manager since she was a little girl to get a debrief).
The bus pax - now empowered clearly with having won one against 'the Man' - decided that the best way to behave was to be extremely verbally abusive to the 2 young people trying to take their walk-up order and begin banging on anything resembling glass in the area. This got a local PD officer enroute in about 2 minutes, and a county deputy going by who heard the same traffic jumped off the exit to assist.
Fortunately they were corralled by their driver who basically said, "hey meatsticks, get on the frickin' bus now" and when the cruisers rolled in the bus was in motion rolling out.
But this is a thing that "just don't happen around here." It will not be the last. I'm frankly glad, as is the manager, that dine-in wasn't an option. People are going to have to hold their personal territory and that can get fugly.
Long hot summer indeed.