View From the Bushes

I would have biked into work today, but it was raining. Okay, that's a lie, even if it hadn't been raining, I wouldn't have biked into work, but the rain is a convenient excuse. Certainly I didn't expect it to rain, as evidenced by the fact that I left my driver's side window open. It was a soggy ride in this morning, I can tell you that. Though obviously not as bad as riding in on a fenderless bike.

Like all cities we have our local celebrities, one of whom is "Super Dell." He owns a chain of computer stores called "Totally Awesome Computers" and stars in all their cheesy ads. Well yesterday old Dell was speeding through a residential neighborhood, some of the residents stopped him, and got angry; at one point someone picked up a rock and threatened to break out his rear lights. That's when Super Dell pulled a Glock 10-mm out of the front of his pants and started waving it around, or so the residents claim.

As I was listening to them talk about the story on the radio this morning, one of the DJ's mentioned that the Glock doesn't have a safety. Not being a huge aficionado of handguns, this was news to me. Now of course, whether the gun has a safety or not, it shouldn't ever have a bullet in the chamber, but even assuming it doesn't have a bullet in the chamber, and even assuming that it has a safety, I think the front of your pants is a bad place to keep a gun. Apparently he also had some kind of hold out pistol strapped to his leg: now that really seems excessive.

Twitchy and timorous
Ross