Damn those inconvenient truths:
An inconvenient truth: Fire & police funerals snarl traffic.
This woman really needs to just get a life. I’m so incredibly sorry she was inconvenienced when going to an appointment, but uhh, I think the family and the community was inconvenienced even more by the permanent loss of that person. So. Deal with it. It’s not like these funerals aren’t well publicized in those neighborhoods.
The sad part is, she’s probably whining more because it’s been a rough couple of months for the public safety community. Between a couple of FCFRD personnel dying from cardiac related issues way too young, the crash of the MD state trooper medevac unit, the drowning of a FCPD officer, another LODD in Frederick MD, and I think a couple of others in MD that I am missing, it’s been an unusually tragic autumn. Most recently, a volunteer EMT died in training to become a firefighter. None of this has been normal…and most tragically, most of these deaths were preventable.
There is quite a bit more thought put into the procession/parade routes than she realizes, and consideration IS taken into things like rush hour, etc.
