New York Pride and Road Rage... strangely similar

New Yorkers are known for their aggressive driving style. Weaving in and out of slower cars. Speeding by the elder. Not stopping for pedestrians. Road rage. It's kind of what we're known for.

Earlier this morning I had to run an errand in San Francisco. On my way back to Oakland, right after merging on to the Bay Brdige, a Red Jeep Laredo started frantically honking at me, then hastily switched lanes, drove up right next to me, and gave me this stare down/point. I was actually kind of terrified. I thought this man was sending me some kind of death threat. I hadn't done anything wrong. I didn't cut him off. I wasn't being the asshole driver I am sometimes known to be. But I was scared. Maybe this guy was having an awfully terrible day?

In desperate need of a lane switchage (the car in front of me was driving painfully slow), I relocated myself to behind the RJL, making sure to keep my distance so as not to further piss him off. Once I was behind the RJL I saw a big old Yankees bumper sticker. This made me giggle and goofily smile. I had mistaken this man's seemingly angry eye contact and point move he made earlier for road rage, when it was actually his way of saying "Go New York!" (I still have my NY license plates).

I gave the the man in RJL a big thumbs up and a smile as I continued to weave through the rest of the slowly moving California drivers.

And, so, New Yorkers are aggressive. Whether they're driving or just trying to share in their New York pride with another, there's nothing passive about any of it.

Oh. What does 134 tons of marijuana look like? Just ask good ol' Mexico.

Sooooo. Mexico did the biggest marijuana bust in what they believe to be all of Mexico's marijuana-busting days. However, they don't know the exact record that was previously set (it must change so often that it's hard to keep track). Yet they insist that it has to be the biggest bust. I mean 134 tons is A. LOT. So, I don't doubt it. But it is Mexico.

All of the soldiers who were transporting the bales of marijuana from the tractor trailers to the burning site (I know a lot of people who would have paid to attend that) were wearing masks. Like SARS masks. As if they were going to contract some kind of reefer madness if they inhaled the plant material, which is not toxic. They stacked the 134 bales into the greatest wall I've ever seen. And then they burned that motherfucker down. They said it would take 2 days for the burning to finish. 2 days of burning marijuana. And, probably all of Mexico smells a lot fresher.

You can watch the slideshow from which the pictures above were "borrowed" right HERE.

And, you can read the full New York Times article right HERRE.