Like the others said, a different utility company not part of this coalition. That’s a trouble spot, too, since I’m guessing that route up I-55 between Memphis and St. Louis is well-traveled.
I see a similar blind spot around some of the major cities in Texas. That’s a 200-mile stretch between Houston and San Antonio.…

Because there are only two logical reasons to put 25 people in a car 11 miles from the border in rural California?
Seemed like he was speculating on why they were there, not opining on the issue of immigration.

Isn’t one of the coyotes’ M.O.’s to smuggle people across in one vehicle, then transfer them to another vehicle a few miles into the U.S.?

Any high school boys who saw it, however, were quite pleased and trying desperately to hitch a ride.

From the promotional materials:

The “underbite” and high profile of the UPS truck looks like Beavis, if Beavis was Black.

Plus it’s about 12,000 feet down to the ocean floor. She didn’t drop it into a kiddie pool where you can just scoop it out.

Always makes me wonder what kind of silly 1800s laws you could find on the books if you really tried.
My state has one regarding jury duty where you are disqualified from serving if you have been convicted of gambling on the courthouse steps. Last time I got called up even the judge laughed about it when he asked us…

“Is that your Packard’s pan handle, or are you just happy to see me?”

Had to drive from Shreveport home to Mississippi in a snowstorm once. New Year’s Eve 2000, actually, after the Independence Bowl. Made it over there fine in my 1987 Chevy Celebrity warhorse, but it started snowing right before kickoff and continued through the night.
Left Shreveport about midnight and made it back to…

The Huey P. Long Bridge in New Orleans, before the late 2000s widening project, was always a white-knuckle ride for me. It was two lanes in each direction. Unfortunately, those two lanes were based on the width of 1930s vehicles from when it was built. So you have, roughly, a 1 1/2-lane bridge with two lanes of…

Jesus, dude, leave some macho for the rest of us. Way to set the bar roughly at the level of the ISS.

After this wreck they did reinforce those two columns. They wrapped the bottom part in a thick concrete base, almost so it looks like they have a planter around the bottom third. I don’t think the overpass was ever in danger of collapsing, though, which is incredible.

I work at the newspaper in this town, and of course the pictures that we run aren’t going to show the mangled body. But I did see some of the “outtakes” that the photographers brought back. One was a photo of a deputy holding an orange bag with biohazard labels on it, and it could best be described as “lumpy.”

About a dozen years ago there was an interstate wreck near my office. A truck carrying 70,000 pounds of industrial steel had its driver apparently fall asleep (or have a heart attack or who knows what; there wasn’t enough left of him for an autopsy) and hit a concrete bridge pillar while going 70 mph. I don’t think it…

I love the subtle use of “several times” in your post.
One fire wasn’t enough to kill the car, nor was it enough to deter you from getting rid of it. Two only strengthened the resolve of both you and the car, even as both of you pondered a horrible and fiery demise together. It took at least one more fire, and…

When he shows up wearing this T-shirt, that might be a good indication of his intent.

Looks great, until the first time you take a sharp turn or have to hit the brakes really hard and all of that stuff drops onto your legs. The holes in the shelf also means there’s nowhere to throw spare change at the drive-thru.

May I see it?

Blame some of that on politics, geopolitics, and most of all bad timing.