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It’s not just race riots that are in our impending future. No, yesterday there was nearly a riot in a shopping center in Jersey thanks to your friend and mine, the Great Ides of April Nor’easter of 2007.
The incident began after flooding closed Route 1, sending drivers to a street which the Nassau Park Shopping Center empties out onto. Naturally, traffic was backed up, and the Trenton Times does a great job of getting quotes from enraged drivers who just wanted to purchase some pogs or whatever.
- “I don’t know quite what the trouble is,” Tom Quigley of Hopewell said as he and his son, Dylan, sat in their pickup truck stopped in traffic. “We just came to get a new (baseball) bat…. It’s as if someone playing with a model train set down in the basement moved all the tracks around without telling the conductor,” Quigley said, trying to explain the motorized chaos surrounding him.
- “This is just crazy. I’m getting sick sitting here. I started out at Wal-Mart and now I’m here. It’s been two and a half hours and this is how far I’ve gotten,” one woman, who declined to give her name, said as her car idled near the Best Buy store, only a few hundred feet from where her journey home had begun.
- A man traveling a few vehicles behind her described the situation with a string of expletives, then proceeded to give his analysis of the problem. “Half the people out here are idiots. No one out knows how to take turns. Everyone’s out for themself and no one’s getting anywhere. Take this woman — she’s stayed on that pickup’s bumper and hasn’t let anyone in,” he said, pointing to the sport utility vehicle directly in front of him. He did not give his name.
Hm. The reporter should have introduced Tom to that expletive-laden man. Tom could have lent Cursey McGee his bat to smash that SUV to bits. And that would have made that Wal-Mart shopper happier, too. It’s a win for everyone involved!
Highway closure traps shoppers [Trenton Times]
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