On the way to my horse-feeding job, there's a traffic light that I'm convinced is controlled by a gremlin. If there's only one person stopped at the traffic light, it will turn green and stay green for a more or less standard amount of time. If, on the other hand, there's a line of four or five cars stopped at the light, it turns green just barely long enough for the first person to start moving, and then it turns red again. I'm not joking about this. The light is yellow for longer than it is green sometimes. I once pulled up behind two cars that were stopped at the light, and I watched the light go red-green-yellow-red so fast that the guy second in line had to rush through the yellow, and I had to stop and wait for the light to change again.
I bet the gremlin that works the light thinks that's just the funniest thing in the whole world. I sure do.
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There is a tiny town in Georgia named Ludowici (pronounced, LEWD-a-WISS-EE), that is famous all over Georgia and Florida for being a speed trap. Fully 99% of the town's income came from speeding tickets, because the speed limit on Highway 301 dropped from 55 mph to 10 mph in one sudden jump, and the signs were tiny.
After the state supreme court started striking down tickets, the local cop installed (no joke, I'm not making this up!) a remote control box for the town's one traffic signal. He would sit in the barber shop and wait for an out-of-town car to come by, and would trip the light from yellow to red in a split second, and then write a ticket for running a red light. Your Uncle Luther and his brother Edward both got caught that way on separate occasions. You can look this up on Wikipedia or other Google sources. Ludowici Georgia.
Maybe this is what's happening with your traffic light.
That is sadistic!
Yeah, but it really happened.
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