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immobilized Friday! No. 2

For today I present you with two situations. The first absurd, as is customary in Bogotá, and the second a bit tragic.

Today Friday, I thought I was going to run out of interesting material for a new edition of immobilized , but finishing the day I came across this gem, nothing more, nothing less than in front of the main entrance of Unicentro (on Race 15), where dozens of pedestrians crossing the road by now almost nonexistent zebras, looked stunned this typical abuse of power in Colombia. First image:

The picture shows with some clarity, how a bachelor police (reflective vest) approaches the red car, which erratically goes into the separator is in that section of Avenue 15, across from the mall. First, among the people there watching, we wonder if they would try to make the "U" to take the road in the opposite direction, which is impossible, since the terrain is anything but flat and a small platform that appears damaged by biting , preventing access to otherwise.

But ... Oh surprise, when we realize that high school graduates, who initially ran out to stop erratic maneuvers this car suddenly relax about the situation, and do not care if the light turns green, while other cars begin to beep and protest the reckless are parked on and not leave anyone behind his move. Within seconds we all understood why they did:

3 In the car were properly uniformed military and, as usual in the city, abusing their authority and making the public space as they please, without more reason than personal gain. Because they feel and believe they can. One of them got out of the car, said goodbye to the other, he said something to the bachelor and crossed the 15 to Unicentro as he owned the place, even when the light was green for vehicle traffic. I spent another couple of minutes there watching, and these characters followed by traffic jam and leaving the car crossed in the middle of Bogota Avenue, for a reason I never understood. For information, hopefully one day useful as a complaint, was a Chevrolet Aveo car, if not fail my knowledge and memory, red and RDV 321 plates.

again overstepping the authority before our eyes, in this case mine and those of several people who were there. The special was to see another high school next to me, looking just as stunned and helpless to his companion, who finally do not blame at all, because he appeared in front other authority (so to speak), and had no choice but basically submissive and say yes to everything.

is, as we illustrated, for several years and life, the wise Jaime Garzón on the functioning of this country where we have the logic backwards. Where we will end up serving public servants worth the sad redundancy, and not vice versa, it should be. So I left saying aloud quemadísimo Colombian comment, those who are already a cliché and not make you laugh, although at one time they did it: "Do you see? That's why this country is like it is ..." .

And for the second and final scene fixed, I came across this accident on the Avenida Boyacá up to approximately 160 Street. I took a few pictures, perhaps not very clear, you dear reader will excuse the quality regular, but I do not usually carry more than halfway decent camera on my phone:

Although people can not see at all, had a truck seriously affected by the accident on the crane, which appears in both photos, behind another car also has some damage and, if my memory betray me, another small car, behind, does not appear in the photos, with the back quite affected. There were several people in the separator, as well as some police and the other side another car to assist, if you know or care what type.

That's it for this Friday and hopefully worth of 2x1, by the absence of note last week.

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